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, ...

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

Whenever Sting covers a song, he makes it his own—and his rendition of Bruce Springsteen’s The Rising at the Kennedy Center Honors was no exception. With Springsteen watching from the audience, ...

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

David Rubenstein, the board chair ousted by this upheaval, has given the Kennedy Center at least US$111 million, making him the center’s biggest donor ever. The philanthropist spearheaded fundraising ...

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 ...

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

Why did Issa Rae cancel her Kennedy Center show? The creator and star of 'Insecure' had a sold-out show at the D.C. venue but ...

Some D.C. residents who have given money to become members of the Kennedy Center are now rethinking their patronage.

Cynthia Erivo will be honored with the Stephen F. Kolzak Award at the 36th Annual GLAAD Media Awards. The awards are set to ...

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