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Three months ago<\/span>, a 75-year-old lawmaker filed a complaint as part of an ongoing lawsuit in federal court, claiming that she had been unlawfully excluded from an upcoming board meeting that would determine the fate of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.<\/p>\n

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It turned out that the invitation had landed in her spam folder\u2014an admission that quickly became a political punch line, a real-life Veep<\/em> episode in Washington politics.<\/p>\n

Today, the plaintiff\u2014Representative Joyce Beatty\u2014feels vindicated, she told me, after a federal judge last week ruled in her favor, ordering the removal of President Trump\u2019s name from the Kennedy Center and temporarily halting his plan to close the institution this summer for a two-year renovation project. On Thursday, the Kennedy Center moved to implement the first half of that ruling, instructing staff to remove Trump\u2019s name from signage and center materials. In a new filing yesterday, Beatty\u2019s legal team told the court that the Kennedy Center has yet to clearly indicate that it will comply with the judge\u2019s preliminary injunction requiring the institution to remain open past July 5.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt appears, unfortunately, that Defendants may intend to proceed\u2014full steam ahead\u2014with the shutdown, or simply to effectuate a shutdown by inertia,\u201d the lawyers wrote.<\/p>\n

Beatty, an Ohio Democrat and an ex officio member of the Kennedy Center board, has been the lone lawmaker behind the monthslong legal fight. (A coalition of historic preservationists and architects asked for a similar injunction in a separate lawsuit, which the judge denied because the plaintiffs had not shown that the renovations were subject to certain federal-review laws.) Now, as the Kennedy Center board faces a June 12 deadline to comply with the ruling\u2014and 60 days to potentially appeal it\u2014Beatty finds herself at the center of one of the most consequential cultural clashes of Trump\u2019s second term. The ruling, she said, was just the \u201cfirst step.\u201d<\/p>\n

She and other lawmakers are now discussing legislation that could reinforce the Kennedy Center\u2019s statutory protections and prevent future administrations from exerting similar control over the institution. And observers of the center are beginning to wonder how to revive the institution after Trump\u2019s damaging tenure as its board chair\u2014a 16-month stretch that has seen artists cancel performances and sales decline, and which put the Kennedy Center\u2019s most prominent tenant, the National Symphony Orchestra, in crisis.<\/p>\n

As of yesterday afternoon, Trump\u2019s name was still mounted on the building\u2019s marble facade. Although the 18 new letters were installed in broad daylight\u2014just one day after the board voted on the measure to add them\u2014it\u2019s unlikely that the center will want a scene when it reverses that work. Meanwhile, Beatty\u2019s larger legal case will continue toward trial. U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper\u2019s ruling last week only temporarily blocked the center\u2019s planned shutdown, leaving open the possibility that the board could still pursue renovations later after \u201cindependently balancing its multiple obligations to the Center in a prudent fashion.\u201c<\/p>\n

Beatty\u2019s team says that the decision nevertheless gives it a strong foundation heading into the next phase of litigation. \u201cThe court found that we were likely to prevail on the merits and gave us a preliminary injunction on that basis,\u201d Nathaniel Zelinsky, a senior counsel for the Washington Litigation Group, which is representing Beatty alongside Democracy Defenders Action, told me.<\/p>\n

But saving the center legally may prove easier than restoring it institutionally.<\/p>\n

Trump still controls<\/span> much of the Kennedy Center. He remains the chairperson of its board of trustees, while Matt Floca\u2014a facilities expert elevated by Trump to lead the center\u2019s planned renovations\u2014heads up the day-to-day operations inside the building. Ever since an announcement from Trump in February, the staff has been preparing for the center to shut down for two years while most artistic operations cease.<\/p>\n

Now, even with the court temporarily blocking those plans, fundamental questions about the institution\u2019s leadership, finances, and artistic direction remain in flux. \u201cIt\u2019s not clear if there\u2019s any money to stay open with,\u201d former Kennedy Center President Michael Kaiser told me. \u201cAnd it\u2019s also not clear who\u2019s going to be in charge.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kaiser, a prominent arts administrator who led the Kennedy Center from 2001 to 2014, believes that the court ruling solved only one layer of the crisis\u2014the in-your-face association with Trump that deepened the difficulty of attracting patrons and talent.<\/p>\n

The broader uncertainty begins with governance. After Cooper\u2019s ruling, Trump said that he would \u201ctransfer\u201d the Kennedy Center back to Congress\u2014a proposal that has puzzled arts leaders and legal observers. \u201cThe Kennedy Center is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization,\u201d Kaiser said. \u201cIt\u2019s not owned, frankly, by any one person.\u201d (Yesterday, Trump told reporters he would remain the center\u2019s chair.)<\/p>\n

Congress could theoretically revise the institution\u2019s governing structure, Kaiser said, but much remains unknown: whether the current board remains intact, whether former members (whom Trump purged) could return, and whether donors and artists would trust the institution again under existing leadership. \u201cIf this board continues to govern the organization, I don\u2019t see where there\u2019s that much change in terms of audiences, donors, artists\u2019 desire to engage with the organization,\u201d he said. Current members of the board, which Trump remade last year, include figures in the Trump administration (White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, the longtime Trump aide Dan Scavino), Fox News personalities (Maria Bartiromo, Laura Ingraham), and the spouses of billionaires (Dana Kraft, Andrea Wynn).<\/p>\n

Kaiser\u2014who helped revive the fortunes of the American Ballet Theater, the Alvin Haley American Dance Theater, and the Royal Opera House in London\u2014estimates that a full turnaround for the Kennedy Center could happen within three years, requiring the careful restoration of staffing, donor confidence, and artistic ambition.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s going to be a groundswell of support for the Kennedy Center from both donors and the public, but also from artists, I believe, if things revert to a more normal status,\u201d Kaiser said. \u201cAnd I think therefore there will be some infusion of resources that have to be very carefully spent.\u201d The center would likely first rely on smaller performances and goodwill from artists willing to return before it eventually restored larger productions, festivals, and educational programming. But goodwill alone doesn\u2019t sustain institutions, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI do think that what\u2019s going to make the turnaround happen or not over time is whether really good programming is created that makes donors feel, Yes, I really want to support this place in a major way, in an ongoing way<\/em>,\u201d Kaiser said. \u201cYou only remain the flagship organization if your programming says it is.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump injected a partisan sensibility<\/span> into the Kennedy Center from the moment he took over: hosting the Kennedy Center Honors, bringing in the FIFA draw (causing the cancellation of other events), renting spaces to conservative groups and foreign governments, and booking more Christian-themed events. But as the Kennedy Center has begun to wind down operations, programming hasn\u2019t been a priority for months.<\/p>\n

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Fastening Trump\u2019s name to its facade in December triggered renewed turmoil at the institution, accelerating performance cancellations and prompting the dissolution of its longtime affiliation with the Washington National Opera.<\/p>\n

The center\u2019s remaining tenant, the National Symphony Orchestra, has fallen behind in announcing its upcoming season of performances and its annual fundraising gala. (In a statement on Wednesday, the board said that it fully expects to stage upcoming performances at the center, if construction work permits, or at other suitable venues. Reports in The Washington Post <\/em>and The New York Times <\/em>portrayed an ensemble incapacitated because the Kennedy Center has not authorized it to commit funds toward booking its next season.)<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, Broadway tours evaporated as leadership increasingly shifted focus toward campus rentals and a handful of special events, including a Mark Twain Prize ceremony honoring Bill Maher. One current staffer, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal matters, told me that the institution also explored hosting a restaged White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner. (Trump announced on Tuesday that the redo of the event would be held on July 24 at the Waldorf Astoria.)<\/p>\n

Beatty, now 76, told me that the instability consuming the Kennedy Center is precisely what her lawsuit sought to stop. \u201cAmerica, the arts, and the rule of law,\u201d she said, are the three things she sought to defend in her legal challenge. She has served on the board since 2019, when she was appointed by then\u2013House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as a congressionally designated member. Beatty described the center\u2019s governance before Trump as formal and collegial. Meetings were held at the institution itself, and all trustees were recognized by the chair and routinely invited to participate in discussions and votes, she said.<\/p>\n

That changed quickly after Trump returned to office and made the Kennedy Center one of his first targets in reshaping Washington\u2019s cultural institutions. \u201cEverything happened in nanoseconds,\u201d Beatty said. David Rubenstein, the Kennedy Center\u2019s longtime chairperson, and President Deborah Rutter were ousted, and meetings became rushed and exclusionary. \u201cDonald Trump is the chair\u2014bam! Unanimous,\u201d she recalled.<\/p>\n

Major events such as Hamilton<\/em> and an Issa Rae show were swiftly canceled, staff departures staggered departments and drained the organization of expertise, and ticket sales drastically declined. The center bragged for months about robust private donations, but Floca said in a court filing this spring that the number was in the tens of millions, not more than $100 million.<\/p>\n

The erosion of the center\u2019s governance processes received less attention but posed its own severe challenges.<\/p>\n

In May 2025, the Kennedy Center revised its bylaws to limit voting authority to presidentially appointed trustees\u2014a change that helped clear the way for Trump loyalists to unanimously approve the institution\u2019s name change during a December board meeting in Palm Beach, Florida. At the time, the center said that the change was intended to reflect a long-standing precedent that ex officio members don\u2019t have voting power. (Ex officio trustees are members not appointed by the president but who serve by dint of their office. They include some Cabinet secretaries, members of Congress such as Beatty, and other prominent officials such as the secretary of the Smithsonian. They are outnumbered by the presidential appointees.)<\/p>\n

But Beatty disputed that assertion about ex officio voting rights, as did Kaiser. \u201cIn my time, ex officio members voted just like regular board members,\u201d Kaiser told me in April. \u201cEveryone voted.\u201d<\/p>\n

The question of voting power immediately became a point of interest\u2014in large part because Beatty publicly came forward about the December board vote, saying that she was repeatedly muted when she tried to voice her opposition while attending the meeting virtually. It happened a total of three times, she said, before a message appeared on her screen: \u201cYou will not be unmuted.\u201d Days later, she filed her lawsuit, alleging that the board proceedings had violated her rights as an ex officio member and that the name change exceeded the board\u2019s statutory authority.<\/p>\n

The legal fight intensified after Trump announced plans to close the Kennedy Center for two years for renovations\u2014which critics charged was intended to cover for the institution\u2019s operational troubles under Trump. Beatty amended her complaint, arguing in part that she had again been improperly excluded from an upcoming board meeting at the White House at which trustees were expected to approve the shutdown.<\/p>\n

Although she later found the invitation in her spam folder, Beatty maintains that the notification process itself broke from normal protocol for missives coming from the White House. \u201cTo me, it was immaterial that I found it,\u201d she said. \u201cIt was not sent to my chief; it was not sent to my scheduler.\u201d<\/p>\n

Beatty\u2019s campaign never weighed on her more than when she arrived at the White House for the meeting, Beatty said. Sitting among Trump\u2019s 40 or so handpicked trustees and other allies, including then\u2013outgoing Kennedy Center President Richard Grenell, she realized that she was the only Democrat and the only Black person in the room.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was only a fleeting second that I thought about, I\u2019m in this alone<\/em>,\u201d Beatty said. But the moment also clarified the stakes for her. \u201cI am in this for history,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m in this for change.\u201d<\/p>\n

Beatty has built a political career around defiant stands. Before arriving in Congress in 2013, Beatty became the first female Democrat House leader in Ohio history and later chaired the Congressional Black Caucus. And she has built a national profile at the center of voting-rights and racial-justice fights. In 2020, she made national headlines after being pepper-sprayed by police during a Black Lives Matter protest in Columbus. The following year, she was arrested during a voting-rights protest at the Capitol.<\/p>\n

But she insists that her current struggle isn\u2019t about her own prerogatives. \u201cAt the end of the day, I wasn\u2019t fighting for myself,\u201d she said. \u201cI was fighting for an institution\u2014the Kennedy Center that belongs to the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Beatty still seems to believe the Kennedy Center can recover\u2014but first, it needs to simply survive.<\/p>\n

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