- Philip Kennicott is spot on as usual: "A two-year closure suggests either that Trump doesn’t know how to sustain a viable performing arts center—which requires regular engagement, assembly and communion with its patrons, donors and artists—or he has plans to remake it into something unrecognizable."
- A two-year closure could be existential for the Kennedy Center, and it's unnecessary for the repairs proposed. Is there a larger agenda, including repurposing the memorial to the 35th President to serve the needs of the 47th? www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...