Kennedy Center contract employee Tavish Forsyth, troubled by President Trump's takeover of the national arts institution, strips naked and delivers a 35-minute protest poem suggesting that arts ...

Harry Whited discusses Trump's approach toward the Kennedy Center and the implications that it has for art, cultural contributions and creativity in the U.S.

A contract worker at the Kennedy Center has been fired after posting a naked protest video condemning ... 32-year-old Tavish Forsyth, associate artistic lead for the Washington National Opera ...

The composer and lyricist of Fellow Travelers, an opera based on Thomas Mallon’s 2007 novel about the anti-gay lavender scare of the 1950s, have withdrawn the work from the 2025-26 season of the ...

What’s the relationship between art and democracy? After his firing from the Kennedy Center, poet Marc Bamuthi Joseph has ...

“We were considering what the most effective method of protest ... visited the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Monday to preside over a meeting of the famed art institution’s new ...

Michael and the five cast members of Finn joined us onstage to what I am certain will be among the loudest and longest ...

In the second hour of "Connections with Evan Dawson" on April 14, 2025, our colleagues from Classical 91.5 join us to discuss ...

A Kennedy Center contract worker strips nude in a ... is harming young people more than any campy piece of protest art ever could." "Any implication that I am corrupting the youth is laughably ...

Forsythe is artistic director of Bird ... after the Trump administration took over the Kennedy Center board. Forsythe’s 35-minute-long naked protest video posted to X (a censored version was ...

Art and music have the power to rise ... The withdrawal is the latest high-profile voluntary protest cancelation at the Kennedy Center in recent weeks. The producers of Hamilton pulled out of ...