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From Sinatra to SZA, Appalachian folk to Detroit funk, a journey through the music that showed one British critic this country’s soul

The president fantasizes about a capital city full of memorials—to himself.

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A previously unseen filing captures the state of the institution seven months after Donald Trump’s takeover.

The president berated a congresswoman during a board meeting, then posted that he would abandon the Kennedy Center if his name isn’t added to it.

In a letter, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said that visitors “should know” about a museum director’s ideological bias.

A board of Trump loyalists keeps dragging out a legal fight over the center’s future.

The only appropriate option is to refuse to accede to his demands.

The president wants the Smithsonian to add a colossal George Washington statue—and remove another work of abstract art in D.C.

The novelist imagined women enjoying equality in the bedroom and the boardroom. Are we any closer to living in that world?

He was ready for life after the Smithsonian. Protecting the institution had taken a toll.

The Smithsonian secretary protected an American institution from more than Donald Trump.

Washington, D.C., is full of cords of connection. By removing a Joel Shapiro work, the Kennedy Center severed one.

After months of clashes with the White House, the historian and leader of the institution is retiring later this year.

After months of clashes with the White House, the historian and leader of the institution is retiring later this year.

His paintings evoked an American innocence that didn’t exist—and that the nation couldn’t live up to.

Trump wants his ballroom and arch done while he’s in office. There’s a risk.

A board of Trump loyalists keeps dragging out a legal fight over the center’s future.

The more you look, the more you see.

Go down a tunnel of trivia where each answer turns into the next question.

The Trump White House needed me—until the fact that I am trans became public.

The center’s board voted—again—to shut down for a renovation. It threw in a design tweak.

The center’s board voted—again—to shut down for a renovation. It threw in a design tweak.

The latest Trump renovation project would violate a basic rule of building maintenance.

Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey is full of contradictions about deceit and violence.

Coming after a history museum may not be the base-galvanizing issue Trump thinks it is.

Taxpayers are now financing President Trump’s love of anything gilded.

A plan to renovate one of America’s most hated airports will surely be popular—but the airport is actually fine the way it is.

The major performers are gone. But staff are trying to keep the center alive on its smallest stage.

The power of America's geriatric set—in politics, in Hollywood, in the culture writ large—has never been clearer.

A design history of Dulles Airport’s people movers, the space-age vehicles fliers love to hate.

In Philadelphia, the Trump administration downplays the importance of slavery to understanding the first president.

The president is ordering new signs outside the Smithsonian to warn Americans about history.

Republicans grilled a museum head, intensifying Donald Trump’s campaign to reshape the American story.

If the president gets his way, new rules would lower the bar for building monuments in Washington.

A previously unreported regulatory change could lower the bar for new additions to Washington.

The Olympian has become the latest emblem of possible prosecutorial overreach.

Why we love them, and why I build them.

A previously unreported regulatory change could lower the bar for new additions to Washington.

A president cracking down on museums is unusual—but so are the museums.

When Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were executed by the U.S. government, they left behind two sons, ages 6 and 10. All these years later, Robby and Michael are still trying to make sense of what happened...

A White House report details what the administration wants to change in museums—and suggests that a crackdown could be coming.