President Donald Trump dismissed half the appointed trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts’ board on Feb. 12, 2025. The remaining board members, most of whom he had recently ...

The Kennedy Center downplays CPAC comments from longtime Trump ally Steve Bannon that a choir composed of Jan. 6 rioters will ...

Paolo Zampolli, a modeling agency honcho turned real estate player, has spent years pushing for Trumpian upgrades to DC's marble temple of high culture.

Proponents of President Donald Trump's changes to the arts institution argued that it was already in financial turmoil and fundraising would not be a problem for the president.

President Donald Trump has upended three years of U.S. policy toward Ukraine, saying that he and Russian President Vladimir Putin had agreed to begin negotiations on ending the war following a ...

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

Kennedy Center President Deborah Rutter was fired as a part of Trump's overhaul of the national cultural institution. Soon ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks to Deborah Rutter, former head of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, in her ...

(Day-to-day administration for the Center is handled by the group’s President, currently Deborah F. Rutter, who’s so far managed to avoid catching any strays in this latest tantrum.) ...

Other members of the board include businessman Anthony Welters, who serves as vice chair, and Deborah Rutter, who serves as president, though last month she announced plans to step down later this ...

A week after Trump’s second inauguration, Kennedy Center President Deborah Rutter announced her own plans to step down at the end of the year. For his second term, Trump is taking a more ...

TRUMP!,” the post reads. The board of trustees lists Shonda Rhimes as treasurer, as well as businessman Anthony Welters as vice chair and Deborah Rutter as president. Rubenstein is co-founder of ...