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November 6-February 9 



■ Exhibition "Philippe Halsman: A Retrospective" was on 

 view at the National Portrait Gallery. This exhibition — the 

 first full retrospective of the work of Philippe Halsman — 

 featured 73 vintage prints dating from the 1930s to the 

 1970s. With more LIFE magazine covers to his credit than 

 any other photographer, Philippe Halsman documented the 

 postwar era through countless celebrity portraits. Among 

 the photographs included in the exhibition were Halman's 

 iconic images of Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, and Sal- 

 vador Dali. 



November 7 



■ Public program "Inventing for the Environment" sympo- 

 sium sponsored by the National Museum of American 

 History's Lemelson Center. Keynote address by Richard 

 White, environmental historian, Stanford University, fol- 

 lowed by small group sessions on the built environment, 

 health and sanitation, industrial ecology and transportation, 

 and constructed and idealized nature. 



November 8 



■ Exhibition "Roy Lichtenstein: Landscapes in the Chinese 

 Style," an exhibiton of 28 paintings, collages, drawing, and 

 one sculpture by this American pop artist (1923— 1997), 

 opened at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. The exhibition in- 

 cluded six examples of Chinese art that inspired Lichtenstein. 



November 8 



■ Lecture For the sixth annual Mordes Lecture in Contempo- 

 rary Art at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 

 curator and scholar Mark Rosenthal of New York's Solomon 

 R. Guggenheim Museum gave a talk titled "Joseph Beuys and 

 Contemporary Art," which probed the life and work of the 

 German sculptor, performer, and teacher (1921 — 1986). 

 Beuys has emerged as one of the most influential figures in 

 postwar European art. Rosenthal, who is preparing a major ex- 

 hibition of Beuys 's work for the Guggenheim, joined a roster 

 of internationally respected art-world figures, among them 

 New York Times critic Roberta Smith and Director Nicholas 

 Serota of the Tate Gallery in London, Germano Celant, Peter 

 Schjeldahl, and Richard Armstrong, who have participated in 

 the yearly lecture series, which is underwritten by contempo- 

 rary art collectors Dr. Marvin and Elayne Mordes of Baltimore. 



November 8 



■ Special event His Holiness the Dalai Lama gave an all-day 

 teaching at The American University in support of the 

 Smithsonian Folklife Festival program, "Tibetan Culture 

 Beyond the Land of Snows," which was cosponsored by the 

 Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage and the Conser- 

 vancy for Tibetan Art and Culture in Washington, D.C. He 

 then attended a reception at the Smithsonian Castle after- 

 wards to launch the Festival project. 



November 10-1 1 



■ Public program "Dos Alas/Two Wings" at the National 

 Museum of American History. Masterclasses, lectures, and 

 performances of Puerto Rican and Cuban dancers AfroCuba 

 de Matanzas. In conjunction with "Encuentros." 



November 1 1 



■ Outreach/publication The Archives of American Art pub- 

 lishes A Finding Aid to the Tomds Ybarra-Frausto Research 

 Material on Chicano Art, 1965-199J. 



November 12 



■ Exhibition The Tropical Research Institute traveling exhi- 

 bition "Our Reefs: Caribbean Connections" opened in Belize 

 City, as part of its travels through the Caribbean region. Local 

 docents in Belize were trained to carry out an educational 

 program that includes lectures about Carrie Bow Key, the 

 National Museum of Natural History's field station in Belize. 



November 1 3 



■ Exhibition The new permanent exhibition and diorama 

 "Tigers!" made its debut at the National Museum of Natural 

 History. The exhibition, which includes a dramatic diorama 

 scene of a tiger lunging at a deer, highlights tigers' behavior 

 in their native habitat. It also focuses on tiger conservation 

 efforts. 



November 1 3 



■ Public program Sarah Burns, author of Inventing the Modern 

 Artist: Art and Culture in Gilded Age America (Yale University 

 Press, 1996), and winner of the Smithsonian American Art 

 Museum's 1998 Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Distinguished 

 Scholarship in American Art, discussed the subject of her 

 book at a lecture. 



November 1 7 



■ Exhibition "Unlimited by Design," Cooper-Hewitt, Na- 

 tional Design Museum. 



November 20 



■ Management excellence The Archives of American Art re- 

 aligns management responsibilities and streamlines 

 operations by closing its New England Regional Center 

 (Boston) and its Midwest Regional Center (Detroit) and con- 

 solidating functions and activities in the Washington, D.C. 

 headquarters, New York Regional Center, and West Coast 

 Regional Center (San Marino, California). 



November 21 



■ Public program The National Museum of American His- 

 tory's "OurStory: History Through Children's Literature" 

 program. Josephina Montoya, the newest American Girls 

 doll will be featured in conjunction with "American 

 Encounters." 



