Gladys Knight, U2, George Clooney among this year ... Bette Midler, Berry Gordy among new Kennedy Center honorees The Kennedy Center Honors will return in December with a class that includes ...

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

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

Richard Grenell, the center’s new president, told a conservative gathering that the “big change” at the center would be a ...

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

Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Trump undertook a "massive overhaul" of the Kennedy Center in the weeks after his ...

Credit: Unsplash/ MIKE STOLL The Republican has admittedly never attended a performance at the site, eschewing several Kennedy Center Honors during his first term in defiance of White House tradition.

Trump: Some of the shows were terrible. They were a disgrace. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump sat out every Kennedy Center Honors during his first presidency, breaking from tradition ...

Kennedy Center President Deborah F. Rutter, brought on by Rubenstein in 2014, resigned soon after the board shake-up. Trump ...

Canada's Joni Mitchell, Lorne Michaels among those celebrated at Kennedy Center Honors Recipients don't have to be born in the U.S. or even citizens; U2 was honoured in 2022. Canadians honourees ...

“The piece was intended to be a part of the Kennedy Center’s Pride celebration and we were very excited to be collaborating with the NSO as their guest chorus,” the statement read in part.