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

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

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 ...

President Trump’s ascension to chair of the Kennedy Center on Wednesday led to multiple departures from the Washington, D.C., ...

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 ...

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 ...

A lot of people know the Kennedy Center for its Kennedy Center Honors, where the Board of Trustees recognizes artists and groups for their contributions. Plenty of celebrities have been honored ...

He showed very little interest in the organization during his first term; he didn’t even attend the Kennedy Center Honors, a ceremony honoring those for lifetime contributions to the performing ...

"Grey's Anatomy" creator Shonda Rhimes and musician Ben Folds have resigned from their Kennedy Center roles. Meanwhile, Issa ...

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 ...