On February 1, President Trump announced that The Kennedy Center would close for two years for “Construction, Revitalization, and Complete Rebuilding” (capitalization sic). Washington Post art and architecture critic Philip Kennicott sees this as an existential threat to the Center.

And: New York Times fashion critic Vanessa Friedman thinks everyone has been misunderstanding the Melania documentary from the get go. It’s less an actual movie, she says, and more the launch of the Melania luxury brand.

And finally: Don Glickman was a design professor. He had retired in the late 1990s, and he died last year at 94. And then some people started getting postcards from him — charming, amusing, perfectly Glickmanian postcards.

GUESTS:

• Vanessa Friedman: Fashion director and chief fashion critic of The New York Times
• Philip Kennicott: Senior art and architecture critic at The Washington Post
• Sydney Page: Staff reporter at The Washington Post, where she writes for The Optimist

MUSIC FEATURED (in order):

• Take Care of This House – Cynthia Erivo, Leonard Bernstein
• ALT Take Care of This House – Frederica von Stade, Leonard Bernstein
• Regrets – Ben Folds Five
• Two Hearts on a Post Card – Vance Dolan
• I Really Like You – Carly Rae Jepsen
• I Got My Brand on You – Muddy Waters, Otis Spann

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Colin McEnroe and Dylan Reyes contributed to this show.