Kennedy Center President Deborah F. Rutter, brought on by Rubenstein in 2014, resigned soon after the board shake-up. Trump ...

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 ...

Also income-producing are two major broadcast events: the presentation of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor and the Kennedy Center Honors program, which celebrates prominent people in the ...

It is home to the Kennedy Center Honors and puts on more than 2,000 performances in a typical year ... “The goal of the ...

President Trump announced plans Friday to fire board members for the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and install himself as its chairman. "At my direction, we are going to make the Kennedy ...

Donald Trump is not only upending American governance; he also intends to wield cultural influence. So he is taking on an unusual presidential side gig, as chairman of The John F. Kennedy Center ...

The Kennedy Center Honors began in 1978 under George Stevens Jr., to recognize people and institutions for lifetime artistic achievement. Honorees at the December gala have varied from George ...

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 ...

Until a few weeks ago, the biggest news to come out of the Kennedy Center ... ignored the center during his first term, becoming the first president to routinely skip the honors ceremony.

breaking a bipartisan tradition by not attending the Kennedy Center Honors ceremonies. Some honorees in 2017 had threatened to boycott events including him. Before Trump announced his plans ...

The opening scene in the story of President Trump’s takeover of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is a flashback to August 2017, months into his first term as president.