Trump chairing a major arts institution would be laughable if it weren't so deeply troubling | Charlotte Higgins
Jokes about the president's power grab at the Kennedy Center in Washington soon pale. This is a nakedly authoritarian move Donald Trump's announcement that he was installing himself as the chair of the John F Kennedy Center, Washington DC's temple to the performing arts, might have been mistaken for something petty or trivial " another random, Pollock-esque splatter of the policy paintbrush against the canvas of the …