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At least a half-dozen workers were dismissed as the Trump administration strengthens its control of the cultural institution.
The center removed employees in government relations, social media, campus planning and other projects, staff said, as the institution continues to shrink following President Donald Trump’s takeover.
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts will now permanently illuminate its exterior in red, white, and blue — a ...
At least six staffers at the Kennedy Center were dismissed Friday. Roughly 20 employees have now been let go, with the latest ...
Kennedy Center contract employee Tavish Forsyth, troubled by President Trump's takeover of the national arts institution, strips naked and delivers a 35-minute protest poem suggesting that arts ...
Harry Whited discusses Trump's approach toward the Kennedy Center and the implications that it has for art, cultural ...
President Trump named himself the storied Washington arts center's chairman and replaced board members with Trump allies.
Rather than ridiculing President's Trump's taste, responses to the Kennedy Center takeover would be better placed focusing on ...
The Kennedy Center, once an outpost of Hollywood in Washington, has since come under fire by some creatives. Yasmin Williams is among them.
After Donald Trump announced the appointment of a new chair—himself—at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, many artists rushed to cancel their scheduled appearances. As the ...
A nearly month-long space mission is ready to lift off, with final preparations being made at the Kennedy Center. To be clear, not NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, but rather the John F. "Earth ...
Multiple artists and partners linked with equity programming said they didn’t receive warning from Kennedy Center officials ahead of the elimination of the Social Impact division.