Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts opened its doors in September of 1971, it was a solemn celebration featuring a radical ...

The president solidified his grip on the performing arts complex as the center’s longtime president, Deborah F. Rutter, was ...

President Trump completed his takeover of the Kennedy Center, announcing he's been "unanimously" elected chairman of the ...

President Trump announced plans Friday to fire board members for the Kennedy Center for the Performing ... Trump would not attend the Kennedy Center Honors in 2017 after some of that year's ...

After dominating U.S. politics for nearly a decade, President Trump now appears to be setting his sights on the country’s ...

Hillary Clinton Queen Latifah to host the 47th Kennedy Center Honors Billionaire philanthropist David Rubenstein, an ally of former President Joe Biden, was to be the chairman until 2026.

Every December, the Kennedy Center Honors are awarded for lifetime contributions to American culture. Past recipients include Ella Fitzgerald, Tennessee Williams, Leonard Bernstein, Frank Sinatra ...

President Donald Trump’s announcement that he plans to overhaul the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts by firing people from its board and installing himself as the new chairman has raised ...

In 2017, he and First Lady Melania Trump skipped the Kennedy Center Honors after being criticized by honorees, marking only the fourth time in the organization’s history that a president was not ...

In 2017, he became the only president to ever skip the Kennedy Center Honors since the event began, in 1978, following threats by some of the 2017 honorees to boycott an accompanying White House ...