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

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

The president solidified his grip on the performing arts complex as the center’s longtime president, Deborah F. Rutter, was ...

President Trump is changing the composition of the Kennedy Center's board — and wants to change the types of performances the ...

Shonda Rhimes resigned from the Kennedy Center Board on Wednesday.

He came about that posture through the Center’s annual Kennedy Center Honors, in which a handful of artists or groups are honored for contributions to American culture. The President and First ...

He came about that posture through the Center’s annual Kennedy Center Honors, in which a handful of artists or groups are honored for contributions to American culture. The President and First ...

He and First Lady Melania Trump broke precedent set by his predecessors and skipped the Kennedy Center Honors during his first three years in office (the 2020 ceremony was postponed due to the ...

when he announced that he and first lady Melania Trump would not attend the Kennedy Center Honors in 2017, after some award recipients that year threatened a boycott. The White House considers ...

as he eschewed an unspoken tradition for presidents to attend the Kennedy Center Honors — an esteemed, bipartisan award ceremony — and tried to withdraw government financial support for other ...