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 ...

Issa Rae became the first major artist to publicly cancel her show at the Kennedy Center after Trump took over its board and ...

Award-winning opera singer and actor Renée Fleming ... for this institution as a beacon of America at our best. I hope the Kennedy Center continues to flourish and serve the passionate and ...

billed as the nation’s cultural center and a “living” memorial to President John F. Kennedy, is historically nonpartisan, best known as a hub for stately classical performances, opera and ...

ribbon-festooned honorees were parked in the Kennedy Center Opera House’s balcony while artists and admirers took to the stage to perform, dance, or sing things that somehow related to a given ...

Credit: Unsplash/ MIKE STOLL The Republican has admittedly never attended a performance at the site, eschewing several Kennedy Center Honors during his first term in defiance of White House tradition.

And losing might be the best ... Kennedy Center board members and making himself chairman. Among those who Trump would eventually remove from the board was Petrelius, the former Biden White House ...

Musician Ben Folds and opera singer Renée Fleming announced in separate statements this week that they are resigning as artistic advisers from the Kennedy Center. Fleming did not name Trump in ...

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

“NO MORE DRAG SHOWS, OR OTHER ANTI-AMERICAN PROPAGANDA — ONLY THE BEST,” Trump posted to ... “given developments at the Kennedy Center.” Opera legend Renée Fleming left her role as ...