Kennedy Center President Deborah F. Rutter, brought on by Rubenstein in 2014, was fired soon after the board shakeup. Trump ...

Many people are scratching their heads at President Donald Trump’s takeover last week of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, a cultural cathedral in the nation’s capital where music, ...

In Trump’s second term, he has restructured the Kennedy Center, replacing its leadership with his supporters and taking ...

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

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

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

The Kennedy Center canceled a concert planned for May 21 that was to feature the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC, ...

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 ...

I don’t believe that arts should be a part of a political conversation,” the former 'Reading Rainbow' host told The Hollywood ...

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 ...

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