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Workers adjust the name of the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts in Washington in December 2025, after trustees voted to add Donald Trump's name. Credit: Heather Diehl/Getty Images

Washington National Opera Sues Kennedy Center Over $17 Million in Gifts

Five months after leaving its home of more than five decades, the opera company is suing for the donor money it says the Kennedy Center kept.

Culture  · 12 Jun 2026, 21:31  · Maya Calder
David Hockney photographed in his Bayswater studio early in his career. Credit: Francis Goodman/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

David Hockney, Painter of Pools and Modern Life, Dies at 88

The British painter who carried figurative art through six decades of changing fashion, from Bradford to the pools of Los Angeles, has died one month short of 89.

Culture  · 12 Jun 2026, 21:31  · Maya Calder