COMMENTARY_ Kennedy Center shake-up is good news for American culture and arts

THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Kennedy Center shake-up is good news for American culture and arts

A new 'Golden Age'

President Donald Trump and the Kennedy Center illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times more >

COMMENTARY

By Zachary Marschall - Tuesday, February 18, 2025

OPINION:


On Feb. 12, the Kennedy Center board appointed President Trump as the chair after he fired several Biden-appointed board members in response to activist programming laden with queer and far-left ideologies, including drag queen performances aimed at children. America needs decisive, unorthodox action to salvage our national culture from the depravity of politically engineered art.

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is the nation’s premier cultural center and a beacon for American greatness, not a vehicle for ideological crusades. Mr. Trump’s anticipated revamp of the Kennedy Center in Washington is necessary to advance cultural renewal in the United States after years of divisive identity politics injected into American arts and culture.

This shake-up of the Kennedy Center board is the most significant shift in American cultural policy in the past 40 years. As an adjunct assistant professor of arts administration at the University of Kentucky, I am thrilled to see the government support beauty and truth in the arts.

America’s vast geographic and cultural diversity makes government support for the arts imperative. Just as agriculture cultivates the land into bountiful harvests, the arts cultivate within us the traits, intellect and refinement we need to grow as individuals engaged in our communities. Arts institutions such as the Kennedy Center produce cultural value for our communities, enriching our lives, fostering social connections, and providing economic benefits through tourism and development.

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