November 



■ New Communication Facility A satellite earth station 

 was installed at the Smithsonian Tropical Research 

 Institute's Tupper Center to establish more reliable com- 

 munication between the Smithsonian Institution in 

 Washington and STRI. 



November 3- -January 29 



■ Exhibition and Programs "Bruce Nauman," an inter- 

 nationally celebrated retrospective of this American art- 

 ist (b. 1941), had its first East Coast showing at the 

 Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Organized 

 by the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis in association 

 with the Hirshhorn, the exhibition of high-intensity 

 sculpture, photographs, drawings, films, holograms, 

 and installations spurred in-depth public programming. 



November 7—13 



■ Benefit Event Visits to museums and private collec- 

 tions, private receptions and special dinners, and other 

 activities filled the week in Laguna Beach, California, 

 for an Archives of American Art fund-raiser. The week 

 culminated in a gala evening honoring the 101-year-old 

 artist Beatrice Wood. 



November 7— 10 



■ Course Twenty-one participants attended the special- 

 ist course "Conservation of Gilt Wood," organized at 

 the Conservation Analytical Laboratory. The course is re- 

 quired for students in CAL's Furniture Conservation 

 Training Program. 



November 14 



■ Consortium The National Zoo's Conservation and Re- 

 search Center, Environmental Systems Research Insti- 

 tute, Inc., and Hewlett-Packard Company formed The 

 Conservation Technology Support Program, a consor- 

 tium that will provide computer hardware, software, 

 and training to nonprofit conservation organizations in 

 the United States and abroad. This program will enable 

 biologists to more effectively analyze the environmental 

 impact of land and natural resource utilization. 



November 17 



■ Exhibition "Directions — Gary Simmons" opened at 

 the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, featur- 



ing cartoon-derived chalk images on 10 panels and a 10- 

 by-37-foot gallery wall created by this New York-based 

 artist (b. 1964). Providing subtle commentary on stereo- 

 rypes of African Americans, the blackboard-like draw- 

 ings showed images and objects gleaned mostly from 

 race-specific cartoons of the 1930s and 1940s. 



November 17 



■ Benefit Event The Archives of American Art hosted a 

 gala event for 280 guests honoring Agnes Gund, chair- 

 man of the board of Trustees of the Museum of Modern 

 Art. 



November 18 



■ Family Program The staff and children of the Em- 

 bassy or Italy hosted a group of Resident Associate fami- 

 lies in celebration of International Children's Day. The 

 Italian actor Carlo Cicala delighted participants with 

 folktales, original stories, and a group sing-along. 



November 19—20 



■ Special Event In celebration of the opening of the 

 George Gustav Heye Center, the National Museum of 

 the American Indian Powwow was held at the Jacob K. 

 Javits Center in New York City. 



November 20 



■ Exhibition "In Search of Common Ground: Potomac 

 Gardens, A Community of Senior Citizens," an exhibi- 

 tion focusing on senior residents of a housing complex 

 in southeast Washington, D.C., opened at the Anacostia 

 Museum. The exhibition explored the effects of migra- 

 tion from rural to urban and public housing environ- 

 ments. It was cosponsored and funded by the D.C. 

 Community Humanities Council and the National En- 

 dowment for the Humanities. 



November 20 



■ Exhibition opening "A Basketmaket in Rural Japan" 

 at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery celebrated the life's 

 work of Hiroshima Kazuo, the last professional itiner- 

 ant basketmaker in Hinokage, an agricultural region of 

 southern Japan. Most of the works on view were loaned 

 by the Department of Anthropology, National Museum 

 of Natural History. 



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