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

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 ...

Trump is now the Kennedy Center's board chairman, giving him control over a beloved arts institution that regularly interacts ...

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

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

The president doesn’t merely want to break the government bureaucracy. He wants to reprogram what the arts mean to the ...

President Donald Trump wants to lavish his personal friends with Kennedy Center Honors, after parachuting himself into the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hillary Clinton Queen Latifah to host the 47th Kennedy Center Honors Billionaire philanthropist David Rubenstein, an ally of former President Joe Biden, was to be the chairman until 2026.

the Kennedy Center Honors and more. In his first term as president, Trump broke with precedent by not attending the annual Kennedy Center Honors, something all previous presidents had done since ...