Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email Email * SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our Privacy noticeThe newly-appointed head of artistic programming at the Kennedy Center has resigned, just days after his appointment was announced. The Kennedy Center did not immediately respond to The Independent’s request for comment. At the time, he said he was on a mission to remove “woke” programming from the center. 15 is a portrait of Abraham Lincoln, and the values of the Kennedy Center today are in direct conflict with the message of the Symphony,” Glass said in a statement released Tuesday by his publicist.