Jonathan L. Fischer
@jonfischer.bsky.social
Arts & Entertainment Editor at @washingtonpost.com. Proprietor, http://hedswillroll.tumblr.com.
A rave for the reopened Studio Museum www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Review | The Studio Museum in Harlem is back, and newly dazzling
A new building connects the museum to a vibrant neighborhood and history.
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November 26, 2025 at 2:19 PM
A rave for the reopened Studio Museum www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
“Stop them!” he shouted. “They’re stealing the Romanée-Contis!” www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
How a $38,000 wine heist ended with a chase through Virginia’s wine country
A couple talked their way into the Virginia wine cellar, where the woman reportedly distracted their guide while the man slipped bottles into his overcoat.
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November 26, 2025 at 2:16 PM
“Stop them!” he shouted. “They’re stealing the Romanée-Contis!” www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Watch "Pluribus" with your loved ones www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/1...
Column | ‘Pluribus’ is the smartest show to watch with your family at Thanksgiving
“Pluribus,” a sci-fi drama, hits home in an era where the one thing we have in common is the conviction that everyone else has lost their minds.
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November 26, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Watch "Pluribus" with your loved ones www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/1...
Reposted by Jonathan L. Fischer
Trump has wanted to go ever-bigger with his planned White House ballroom.
One person who disagrees: Trump’s handpicked architect
James McCrery is worried about the size of Trump’s addition overshadowing the main White House mansion, per people we’ve spoken to.
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One person who disagrees: Trump’s handpicked architect
James McCrery is worried about the size of Trump’s addition overshadowing the main White House mansion, per people we’ve spoken to.
with @jonathanreports.bsky.social
Trump wants a bigger White House ballroom. His architect disagrees.
The president and James McCrery had argued in recent weeks over the project’s size, with Trump pushing him to expand the ballroom.
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November 26, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Trump has wanted to go ever-bigger with his planned White House ballroom.
One person who disagrees: Trump’s handpicked architect
James McCrery is worried about the size of Trump’s addition overshadowing the main White House mansion, per people we’ve spoken to.
with @jonathanreports.bsky.social
One person who disagrees: Trump’s handpicked architect
James McCrery is worried about the size of Trump’s addition overshadowing the main White House mansion, per people we’ve spoken to.
with @jonathanreports.bsky.social
Design professionals very politely diss the president's font choice www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
What’s going on with Trump’s gold ‘Oval Office’ sign?
We asked design experts to read the writing on the White House wall and tell us what they see
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November 25, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Design professionals very politely diss the president's font choice www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
Our Jimmy Cliff obit. www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae star with global following, dies at 81
His lead performance as a singer-turned-outlaw in the 1972 film “The Harder They Come” helped introduce reggae to the world.
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November 24, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Our Jimmy Cliff obit. www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
In our Sunday section, a soliloquy or two.
November 23, 2025 at 10:29 PM
In our Sunday section, a soliloquy or two.
A remarkable story about a Hiroshima survivor www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
After surviving Hiroshima, she has a message for Trump
As the president weighs resuming testing of nuclear weapons for the first time in decades, Koko Kondo wants to ensure history doesn’t repeat itself.
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November 23, 2025 at 7:22 PM
A remarkable story about a Hiroshima survivor www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
A great @chrisrichards.bsky.social piece wrestling with the promise, and the delivery, of Geese www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Column | Geese is the best new band you’re sick of hearing good things about
For the acclaimed young New York quartet, rock and hype feel tightly intertwined.
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November 23, 2025 at 1:35 PM
A great @chrisrichards.bsky.social piece wrestling with the promise, and the delivery, of Geese www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Reporting on the Replacements in 2025.
November 21, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Reporting on the Replacements in 2025.
The “Kryptos” story has ended (for now) with the sale of the code for nearly $1 million. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Long-sought solution to ‘Kryptos’ sculpture sells for almost $1 million
The sale is an unexpected success for artist Jim Sanborn, who feared it might not happen after researchers discovered the plain-text solution at an archive.
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November 21, 2025 at 6:03 PM
The “Kryptos” story has ended (for now) with the sale of the code for nearly $1 million. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Chloé Zhao, profiled (she took our reporter on a hike). www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
How Chloé Zhao made the year’s most powerful film
“Life and death. To be or not to be.” “Hamnet” director Chloé Zhao asks big questions in a movie that’s about much more than Shakespeare.
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November 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Chloé Zhao, profiled (she took our reporter on a hike). www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
The Phillips Collection auctioned off a number of works, including a Georgia O'Keeffe that sold tonight for $7.8 million www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Phillips Collection sells O’Keeffe and other masterpieces amid outcry from supporters
Sotheby’s auctioned Georgia O’Keeffe’s “Large Dark Red Leaves on White” for $7.8 million alongside other works. The Washington museum intends to use sale proceeds to commission work from contemporary ...
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November 21, 2025 at 4:01 AM
The Phillips Collection auctioned off a number of works, including a Georgia O'Keeffe that sold tonight for $7.8 million www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Reposted by Jonathan L. Fischer
Senate Dems are investigating the Kennedy Center over its spending practices and booking deals that involve Trump allies.
The probe cites lavish dining expenses, luxury hotel stays and contracts for events like FIFA’s World Cup draw — which we reported last week will pay $0 in rent.
wapo.st/4pmYw1U
The probe cites lavish dining expenses, luxury hotel stays and contracts for events like FIFA’s World Cup draw — which we reported last week will pay $0 in rent.
wapo.st/4pmYw1U
Senate Democrats are investigating Kennedy Center’s deals and spending
A Senate committee is examining the Kennedy Center’s contracts and expenses, accusing its Trump-allied leadership of “self-dealing, favoritism, and waste.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Senate Dems are investigating the Kennedy Center over its spending practices and booking deals that involve Trump allies.
The probe cites lavish dining expenses, luxury hotel stays and contracts for events like FIFA’s World Cup draw — which we reported last week will pay $0 in rent.
wapo.st/4pmYw1U
The probe cites lavish dining expenses, luxury hotel stays and contracts for events like FIFA’s World Cup draw — which we reported last week will pay $0 in rent.
wapo.st/4pmYw1U
Dorothy Vogel -- of the wonderful doc "Herb and Dorothy," who built an incredible art collection with her husband and kept it EVERYWHERE in their tiny apartment, before donating it en masse to the National Gallery of Art -- has died. Our obit: www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
Dorothy Vogel, unlikely art collector and National Gallery donor, dies at 90
Dorothy Vogel was a librarian. Her husband was a postal worker. Together, they collected thousands of pieces of modern art, then donated it to the National Gallery.
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November 21, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Dorothy Vogel -- of the wonderful doc "Herb and Dorothy," who built an incredible art collection with her husband and kept it EVERYWHERE in their tiny apartment, before donating it en masse to the National Gallery of Art -- has died. Our obit: www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
Senate Dems are investigating the Kennedy Center. Here's what we know. www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/1...
Senate Democrats are investigating Kennedy Center’s deals and spending
A Senate committee is examining the Kennedy Center’s contracts and expenses, accusing its Trump-allied leadership of “self-dealing, favoritism, and waste.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Senate Dems are investigating the Kennedy Center. Here's what we know. www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/1...
When art critics could kill www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Column | When an art critic insulted this painting, its artist was bankrupted
James McNeill Whistler’s “Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket” was ahead of its time. When the critic John Ruskin insulted it, a notorious libel case ensued.
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November 20, 2025 at 3:21 PM
When art critics could kill www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
My colleague @timcarman.bsky.social has a beautiful essay on the music of Chris Whitley, who died 20 years ago www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Column | 20 years after Chris Whitley died, I can’t shake his earthy, gutting songs
After a brief flirtation with the mainstream, Houston’s Chris Whitley carved one of rock’s more fascinating paths. It’s time to rediscover him.
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November 20, 2025 at 3:06 PM
My colleague @timcarman.bsky.social has a beautiful essay on the music of Chris Whitley, who died 20 years ago www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
And what a perfect New Order cover it is
Velocity Girl announce '¡Simpatico!' remastered / expanded edition, share New Order "Your Silent Face" cover www.brooklynvegan.com/velocity-gir...
Velocity Girl announce '¡Simpatico!' remastered / expanded edition, share New Order "Your Silent Face" cover
'¡Simpatico! (Remastered and Expanded)' is out February 13 via Sub Pop and the double-LP set includes eight non-LP tracks from the era.
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November 20, 2025 at 2:24 AM
And what a perfect New Order cover it is
From a year ago, now updated: Seven Elphabas www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Seven Elphabas from ‘Wicked’ talk going green and defying gravity
Idina Menzel and others open up about the pleasures and perils of playing Elphaba, the iconic “Wicked” character.
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November 19, 2025 at 9:38 PM
From a year ago, now updated: Seven Elphabas www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
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November 19, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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The Tom Hanks play is bad. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Review | The Tom Hanks play is bad
Tom Hanks stars in and co-wrote off-Broadway’s “This World of Tomorrow,” a sci-fi rom-com gone awry.
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November 19, 2025 at 4:30 AM
The Tom Hanks play is bad. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
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Seriously?: Longevity secrets from an 80-year-old fashion designer
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November 17, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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In our Sunday section, several great Americans.
November 16, 2025 at 1:38 PM
In our Sunday section, several great Americans.