{"id":2332130,"date":"2026-03-16T22:09:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T22:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2332130"},"modified":"2026-03-16T22:09:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T22:09:20","slug":"board-votes-to-close-kennedy-center-for-two-years-as-renovation-project-proceeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/board-votes-to-close-kennedy-center-for-two-years-as-renovation-project-proceeds\/","title":{"rendered":"Board Votes To Close Kennedy Center For Two Years As Renovation Project Proceeds"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The board of the Kennedy Center voted on Monday to close the arts complex for two years, proceeding with Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s plans for a massive renovation.<\/p>\n

The vote, taken at a meeting at the White House, was unanimous, the center said in a press release.<\/p>\n

Trump, who serves as the center\u2019s chairman, announced plans for the closure last month in what he said will speed up the renovation project.<\/p>\n

Rep. Joyce Beatty<\/a> (D-oh), an ex officio member of the board, is challenging the closure in a lawsuit, warning that the ultimate plan may be to tear down the arts institution, as Trump did to the East Wing of the White House. She won an emergency court order on Saturday to be allowed to express her opposition at Monday\u2019s meeting, but a judge declined to rule that she also had the right to vote.<\/p>\n

The meeting\u2019s start was opened to the press,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The board of the Kennedy Center voted on Monday to close the arts complex for two years, proceeding with Donald Trump\u2019s plans for a massive renovation. The vote, taken at a meeting at the White House, was unanimous, the center said in a press release. Trump, who serves as the center\u2019s chairman, announced plans for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2332131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2332130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Board-Votes-To-Close-Kennedy-Center-For-Two-Years-As.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2332130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2332130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2332130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2332132,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2332130\/revisions\/2332132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2332131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2332130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2332130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2332130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}