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

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

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 ...

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 ...

A lot of people know the Kennedy Center for its Kennedy Center Honors, where the Board of Trustees recognizes artists and groups for their contributions. Plenty of celebrities have been honored ...

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 ...