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

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

Until a few weeks ago, the biggest news to come out of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., was its annual celebration of ...

Many people are scratching their heads at President Donald Trump’s takeover last week of the John F. Kennedy Center for the ...

President Trump is changing the composition of the Kennedy Center's board — and wants to change the types of performances the ...

Trump is now the Kennedy Center's board chairman, giving him control over a beloved arts institution that regularly interacts with Hollywood ...

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 ...

Gladys Knight, U2, George Clooney among this year’s Kennedy Center honorees Actor, director, producer and human rights activist George Clooney, groundbreaking composer and conductor Tania ...

Canadian author Louise Penny has joined the growing list of people from the arts and culture communities to cancel events or ...

The president intends to replace members of the institution’s board as he adopts a more aggressive approach toward the arts.

The award—perhaps the most prestigious honor ... of State to have a seat at the table for board meetings. The Kennedy Center Honors typically makes the State Department one of its stages during ...

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 ...