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\n\tThe Kennedy Center<\/a> Honors will officially be renamed the \u201cTrump Kennedy Center Honors<\/a>,\u201d the president of the performing arts venue said Saturday.<\/p>\n \n\tIn an interview with Washington\u2019s WTOP (via Variety<\/em><\/a>), Richard Grenell, president of the now-rebranded Trump Kennedy Center, said that while the venue will close this summer for a two-year-long renovation, the annual honors ceremony will still take place with the new name, Trump Kennedy Center Honors.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cIt will definitely go forward,\u201d Grenell said of the honors gala amid the renovation. \u201cIt will probably just be in a smaller venue, which just means ticket demand will be even higher.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tDozens of artists \u2014 including most recently Renee Fleming<\/a>, Philip Glass<\/a>, and the Washington City Opera<\/a> \u2014 have canceled performances at the performing arts center since Trump gutted the Kennedy Center\u2019s board,\u00a0installed himself as chairman<\/a>, and his new board of appointees voted on a\u00a0legally dubious name change<\/a>\u00a0to make it, \u201cThe Donald J. Trump and the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts.<\/p>\n \n\tIn a statement shared with\u00a0Rolling Stone<\/em>, Kennedy Center spokesperson Roma Daravi said, \u201cWe have no place for politics in the arts, and those calling for boycotts based on politics are making the wrong decision. We have not cancelled a single show. Leftist activists are pushing artists to cancel but the public wants artists to perform and create\u2014not cancel under pressure from political insiders that benefit from creating division.\u201d<\/p>\n