President Donald Trump wants to lavish his personal friends with Kennedy Center Honors, after parachuting himself into the ...

What will a thin-skinned showman do with an institution central to Washington’s cultural life? One expectation is more ...

The Kennedy Center Honors, however, are a different matter altogether—their decline is not a local Beltway matter but a problem of national importance.

Trump is now the Kennedy Center's board chairman, giving him control over a beloved arts institution that regularly interacts with Hollywood ...