President Dwight Eisenhower initiated the process of establishing the centre in the late 1950s, and president Lyndon Johnson and ... those celebrated at Kennedy Center Honors Recipients don ...

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

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

After mostly steering clear of the national cultural center during his first term, Trump has moved quickly to take control as ...

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 ...

This public-private performing arts center relies on some $85 million in donations every year. Will its sudden politicization ...

President Donald Trump proceeded with an overhaul of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Wednesday, ...

WASHINGTON − The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has been America's premiere stage for decades. But more recently, the cultural center has been in the headlines not for art but ...

He and First Lady Melania Trump broke precedent set by his predecessors and skipped the Kennedy Center Honors during his first three years in office (the 2020 ceremony was postponed due to the ...

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 ...

He came about that posture through the Center’s annual Kennedy Center Honors, in which a handful of artists or groups are honored for contributions to American culture. The President and First ...