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Thursday, February 12, 2026
Seized, subverted, shuttered: a year in Trump’s assault on the Kennedy Center
US news | The Guardian: The Brentano String Quartet had finished their performance when a special guest dropped in backstage: the US supreme court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. “We thanked her for everything she had done for our country,” recalls violinist Mark Steinberg. “It was a nice moment.”
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Rachel N
said...
The title of this article had me take a step back and think about the implications after fully reading and thinking about the situation myself. It sounds exactly like a hostage situation, which isn’t necessarily a completely false narrative with the current state of the Kennedy Center, but revealing of how the Kennedy Center is popularly viewed versus its actions and history. While it’s hard to define the Kennedy Center’s policies alone now, with the Trump Administration takeover, and it does indeed shift and depend regardless of who is in charge at the time, the Kennedy Center has never exactly been a pinnacle of progress for the arts. On an artistic level, its achievements are grand and worthy of praise for year after year showcasing some of the finest arts on a grand scale, but that’s the thing. The Kennedy Center has always been inherently linked to the elite class, both politically and artistically. While this new Administration is completely changing the image of the Kennedy Center, and their resistance from the worker’s, audience’s and artist’s perspective is admirable, that fact cannot go unacknowledged.
1 comment:
The title of this article had me take a step back and think about the implications after fully reading and thinking about the situation myself. It sounds exactly like a hostage situation, which isn’t necessarily a completely false narrative with the current state of the Kennedy Center, but revealing of how the Kennedy Center is popularly viewed versus its actions and history. While it’s hard to define the Kennedy Center’s policies alone now, with the Trump Administration takeover, and it does indeed shift and depend regardless of who is in charge at the time, the Kennedy Center has never exactly been a pinnacle of progress for the arts. On an artistic level, its achievements are grand and worthy of praise for year after year showcasing some of the finest arts on a grand scale, but that’s the thing. The Kennedy Center has always been inherently linked to the elite class, both politically and artistically. While this new Administration is completely changing the image of the Kennedy Center, and their resistance from the worker’s, audience’s and artist’s perspective is admirable, that fact cannot go unacknowledged.
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