For the arts institution, which receives only a small portion of its budget from federal funding, the perennial challenge is ...

Donald Trump is not only upending American governance; he also intends to wield cultural influence. So he is taking on an ...

What will a thin-skinned showman do with an institution central to Washington’s cultural life? One expectation is more ...

Kennedy Center President Deborah F. Rutter, brought on by Rubenstein in 2014, resigned soon after the board shake-up. Trump ...

The Kennedy Center Honors, however, are a different matter altogether—their decline is not a local Beltway matter but a problem of national importance.

WASHINGTON − The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has been America's premiere stage for decades. But more recently, the cultural center has been in the headlines not for art but ...

Trump: Some of the shows were terrible. They were a disgrace. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump sat out every Kennedy Center Honors during his first presidency, breaking from tradition ...

Credit: Unsplash/ MIKE STOLL The Republican has admittedly never attended a performance at the site, eschewing several Kennedy Center Honors during his first term in defiance of White House tradition.

Canada's Joni Mitchell, Lorne Michaels among those celebrated at Kennedy Center Honors Recipients don't have to be born in the U.S. or even citizens; U2 was honoured in 2022. Canadians honourees ...

“The piece was intended to be a part of the Kennedy Center’s Pride celebration and we were very excited to be collaborating with the NSO as their guest chorus,” the statement read in part.

WASHINGTON — The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is facing a mass exodus of artists, board members, and scheduled performances after former President Donald Trump took over the ...