The 2013 Pulitzer Prize Winners Criticism
16/04/2013.
The 2013 Pulitzer Prize Winners
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Kennicott, 47, won the award — considered journalism’s highest honor — for articles assessing a photographic exhibit at the Corcoran Gallery, an architect’s work at the National Building Museum and an essay on graphic and violent photographic images, among others.
A watercolor by architect Steven Holl was an early step toward translating an obscure musical score by István Anhalt into a new home and gallery in Seoul, South Korea. Click above to see larger image.
“Symphony of Modules”, Istvan Anhalt.
For distinguished criticism, using any available journalistic tool, Ten thousand dollars ($10,000).
Awarded to Philip Kennicott of The Washington Post for his eloquent and passionate essays on art and the social forces that underlie it, a critic who always strives to make his topics and targets relevant to readers.
Kennicott is the 10th Style critic to win a Pulitzer. The others include four current writers: dance critic Sarah Kaufman, who won in 2010, fashion critic Robin Givhan (2006), book critic Michael Dirda (1993) and book columnist Jonathan Yardley, who won in 1981 before joining the Post. Former Style critics Henry Allen (photography criticism), Tim Page (classical music), Tom Shales (television), Stephen Hunter (film) and the late Alan M. Kriegsman (dance) have also won.
One of his most recent works, Music Holl: A Copper Clad Pavilion - exclusively published in Dwell’s May Issue Global Style - recounts the inspiration behind Steven Holl’s award-winning Daeyang Gallery and House in Seoul.
WORKS
November 15, 2012 A moral examination
June 20, 2012 The corporate architect
December 30, 2012 Why do we stare
May 1, 2012 Give us shelter...and a roof over all our feel-good stuff
July 8, 2012 For Corcoran, identity remains its biggest issue
August 5, 2012 And the band played on, but to a new beat
February 7, 2012 Objects of her projection
August 17, 2012 An exhibit triggers deeper thoughts
November 8, 2012 Snapshot of an equal, modern marriage
August 25, 2012 Art challenges unbridled emotion
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PHILIP KENNICOTT
Philip Kennicott is chief art critic of The Washington Post, which he joined in August 1999. He has also been chief classical music critic for the Detroit News and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, where he also worked for two years as an editorial writer. Before that he was a New York-based editor at Musical America and Chamber Music magazines.
In 2000, Kennicott was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for editorials opposing a concealed-carry gun initiative in Missouri (which failed despite heavy support from gun-rights organizations). In 2006, he was an Emmy Award nominee for a Web-based video journal about democracy and oil money in Azerbaijan. He has also won a Cine Golden Eagle for his video work. In 2010, he won the American Association of Sunday and Feature Editors’ general commentary award. Kennicott now writes extensively about architecture and the intersection of architecture and culture.
Kennicott graduated summa cum laude with a degree in philosophy from Yale in 1988. Before attending Yale, he spent two years at Deep Springs College in California. Kennicott, who blogs at philipkennicott.com, is a monthly columnist for Gramophone and a frequent contributor to Opera News and other musical publications.
