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 ...

Bette Midler, Berry Gordy among new Kennedy Center honorees The Kennedy Center Honors will return in December with a class that includes Motown Records creator Berry Gordy, "Saturday Night Live ...

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 ...

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.

Outside of Washington D.C., the institution is probably best known as the home of the annual Kennedy Center Honors, a ceremony that functions as a sort of lifetime achievement award for artists ...

Award-winning singer-musician Rhiannon Giddens has become the latest artist to call off an appearance at the Kennedy Center ... have routinely attended the honors ceremony, even in the presence ...

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 ...

Until a few weeks ago, the biggest news to come out of the Kennedy ... the honors ceremony, even in the presence of artists who disagreed with them politically. Trump mostly ignored the center ...

By Javier C. Hernández and Michael Gold President Trump took control of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington only last week. But his administration is already making ...