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

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

Credit: Unsplash/ MIKE STOLL The Republican has admittedly never attended a performance at the site, eschewing several Kennedy Center Honors during ... and Dana Blumberg. Richard Grenell was ...

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

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

So what do Trump, now chairman of the Kennedy Center; Richard Grenell, the center’s new interim director; and the president’s ...

President Donald Trump ended the third week of his second term by firing the board of the Kennedy Center. He has since named ...

This public-private performing arts center relies on some $85 million in donations every year. Will its sudden politicization ...

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 ...

Proponents of President Trump’s shakeup at Washington’s Kennedy Center say the venue’s track record of politicizing art goes beyond a single drag show.