The Kennedy Center for the Arts
The question before arts organizations and companies is the same one that looms over the rest of us: will they—can they—act before it’s too late?
There’s nothing benign about what just happened on the banks of the Potomac. Indeed, the president’s move makes history of the most nefarious kind: for the first time, the federal government has hijacked what is supposed to be the nation’s premiere arts institution in an effort to explicitly censor voices and viewpoints it deems undesirable.
Arts Commentary: Trump’s War on the Kennedy Center Is a War on Culture Itself
His threatened destruction of the nation’s living memorial to John F. Kennedy exposes not merely an assault on a building, but the petty authoritarianism, civic vandalism, and cultural contempt driving his presidency.
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