Philip Kennicott lays out why Washington D.C.’s Kennedy Center is a dull, stagnant place—and how many arts groups around here might this apply to? It’s a good platform for thinkin’.

Jen Graves (The Stranger’s former arts critic) mostly writes about things you approach with your eyeballs. But she’s also a history nerd interested in anything that needs more talking about, from male...

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  1. Thanks for pointing out the article and I wish Kennicott had done more than assert “The Kennedy Center is physically isolated from the city of Washington by bad urban planning” and explain a bit why and how it (doesn’t) work.

    I think that problem with the Kennedy art center is that it is an “art center” and inevitably leads to monument and pomp — just look at the sterility in the photo in Kennicott’s article.

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