The exterior of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in May. - (Astrid Riecken/For The Washington Post) President Donald Trump announced the recipients of the 48th Kennedy Center Honors ...

The Kennedy Center Honors are the nation’s top performing-arts-achievement awards and their celebration the highlight of the capital’s cultural calendar. Yet the honorees are typically announced in ...

While announcing the five recipients of the 2025 Kennedy Center Honors at a live event on Aug. 13, the president also revealed that he will host the upcoming December award ceremony Meredith Kile is a ...

Donald Trump has announced his selection of honorees for the first Kennedy Center Honors of his second term, and he has somehow restrained himself from picking Dean Cain, Hannibal Lecter, or the movie ...

President Trump has announced a new host of the Kennedy Center Honors: himself. NPR speaks with "Trump Revealed" co-author Marc Fisher about Trump's love of the limelight. Before he became a two-time ...

If you’ve ever seen the Kennedy Center Honors award ceremony, you can envision the rainbow ribbon with a gold name plate hanging around the neck of some of the nation’s most treasured artists.

WASHINGTON — As the new chairman of the Kennedy Center, President Donald Trump added a highly personal stamp to this year’s announcement of the recipients of the annual honors, whom he named as ...