After mostly steering clear of the national cultural center during his first term, Trump has moved quickly to take control as ...

having won over Tina Turner with her impassioned cover of ‘Proud Mary’ in 2005 at the Kennedy Center Honors, Beyoncé was joined by her idol during the 2008 Grammys where the two set the stage ...

The month honors ... Florynce Kennedy 71. “Whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you’ll find that when you’re free . . . your true self comes out." —Tina Turner 72.

but what about the Kennedy Center Honors? Yes, President Donald Trump has made a compelling case for the paucity of good, wholesome, or even mildly edifying programming at the performing-arts ...

Image Renée Fleming, at the Kennedy Center Honors in Washington in 2023. The soprano said on Wednesday that she would step down as an artistic adviser to the center.Credit...Haiyun Jiang for The ...

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 ...

breaking a bipartisan tradition by not attending the Kennedy Center Honors ceremonies. Some honorees in 2017 had threatened to boycott events including him. Before Trump announced his plans ...

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 ...

Every December, the Kennedy Center Honors are awarded for lifetime contributions to American culture. Past recipients include Ella Fitzgerald, Tennessee Williams, Leonard Bernstein, Frank Sinatra ...

Kennedy following his assassination in 1964. It is home to the Kennedy Center Honors and puts on more than 2,000 performances in a typical year, according to its website. Trump on Monday named Ric ...

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 ...