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 ...

This public-private performing arts center relies on some $85 million in donations every year. Will its sudden politicization ...

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 ...

The president is now the arts center’s chairman. What will this mean for its future?

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 ...