Kennedy Center
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts or shortly Kennedy Center is a Performing Arts Center, located in Washington D.C. on the banks of the Potomac opposite Theodore Roosevelt Island and next to the Lincoln Memorial. It was opened in 1971. The building was designed by architect Edward Durrell Stone.
The center is a public-private partnership, as it honors President John F. Kennedy and hosts the National Center for the Performing Arts. The costs are largely offset by revenue from ticket sales and gifts.
In the Kennedy Center are located:
Since 1978, the Kennedy Center Honors has been awarded to five artists or groups each year. Since 1998, the Kennedy Center also has an annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
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