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 ...

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.

Caroline Kennedy is gearing up for a showdown with Donald Trump over his Kennedy Center overhaul. Joe Biden‘s Ambassador to ...

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.) ...

Friday’s news comes more than a week after the Kennedy Center’s president, Deborah Rutter, announced plans to step down at the end of the year following more than a decade at the helm.

Last week, the Kennedy Center’s president, Deborah Rutter, announced plans to step down at the end of the year. The board had started a search for her replacement and retained a headhunter.

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 ...