Lionel Richie and Gloria Estefan celebrate following the State Department dinner for the Kennedy Center Honors on Dec. 2, 2017, in Washington, D.C. (Kevin Wolf/The Associated Press) Cuba-born ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Why must every president overplay his hand?” Christopher J. Scalia wrote on X the other day. Scalia, the son of the famed Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and hardly a raging progressive, was ...

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 ...

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 ...

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