Internal emails and documents demonstrate the political capture of the institution, including how officials once pursued a plan to unload much of the art collection.
The president has threatened to block renovations and suggested the landmark could be demolished after courts ruled against his bid to rename it It was born with the world premiere of Leonard Bernstein’s Mass. “Young people will come here and they will see this cultural centre,” Rose Kennedy, the mother of slain US president John F Kennedy, said at that…
Thousands of people have come to protest outside the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Leftists flocked to the Kennedy Center on Friday, forming a human chain around the facility, which faces an uncertain future amid President Donald J. Trump’s threats to…
Originally commissioned as the “National Cultural Center,” the arts venue known for its celebration of American drama has been the...
Trump is pressuring the courts in his renaming campaign, but this is yet another abuse of presidential power that only Congress can address.
