Live music performances on television shows this week include:

Live music performances on television shows this week include:

v Seal: Tonight on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” (ABC)

v Twenty One Pilots: Wednesday on “Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” (NBC)

v Rod Stewart: Thursday on “Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” (NBC)

v James Taylor: Thursday on “Late Show With Stephen Colbert” (CBS)

v Run the Jewels: Friday on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” (ABC)

“The 38th Annual Kennedy Center Honors” (9 p.m., CBS): Host Stephen Colbert pays tribute to Carole King, George Lucas, Rita Moreno, Cicely Tyson and Seiji Ozawa; James Taylor, Janelle Monae, Yo-Yo Ma and others perform.

“Almost Genius” (10 p.m., truTV): This new reality comedy series looks at folks who fall just short of their goals. They should be knocking on my door any day now.

TV listings, B6

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS

Cohen, Fisher donate $1M to Syrian victims

NEW YORK

Actors Sacha Baron Cohen and his wife, Isla Fisher, are donating $1 million to Save the Children and the International Rescue Committee to support victims of the conflict in Syria.

Save the Children has announced that one-half of the sum will fund a program vaccinating more than 250,000 children against a potential measles outbreak in Northern Syria.

The other half of the donation will go toward supporting families, with a special concern for women and children, both inside Syria and in neighboring countries. That money will go toward education, health care, shelter and sanitation, Save the Children said.

Cohen, 44, starred in comedy features including “Borat” and “The Dictator.” Fisher, 39, appeared in “Confessions of a Shopaholic” and the Netflix comedy series “Arrested Development.”

Abstract artist Ellsworth Kelly dies

SPENCERTOWN, N.Y.

Ellsworth Kelly, a painter, sculptor and printmaker whose work over seven decades made him one of America’s leading abstract artists, has died. He was 92.

Kelly’s Manhattan gallerist, Matthew Marks Gallery, said he died Sunday at his upstate New York home. Peter Wenk, the owner of a funeral home near Kelly’s home studio confirmed Kelly’s death Monday. The artist had been suffering from lung ailments.

Born in Newburgh in New York’s Hudson Valley in 1923, Kelly grew up in New Jersey and enrolled in art school in New York City in 1941. He left school during World War II, when he painted camouflage patterns on fake tanks and other military objects produced by a special Army unit to deceive the Germans. Among his comrades was Bill Blass, the future fashion designer.

Kelly moved to Paris after the war to study art. He returned to New York in the mid-1950s to begin creating the boldly colored geometric paintings that were exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art. In July 2013, Kelly was one of 24 recipients of the National Medal of Arts bestowed during a White House ceremony with President Barack Obama.