George Wittenborn Memorial Award, given annually 

 by the Art Libraries Society or North America. 



March JJ 



■ Exhibition "Directions- — Cindy Sherman: Film 

 Stills" opened at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture 

 Garden, marking the first complete showing of a forma- 

 tive series for this artist (b. 1954), who is known for her 

 evocatively staged, self-posed photographs. The exhibi- 

 tion inspired programs, including a film-noir festival, a 

 high school photography project and exhibition, a lec- 

 ture, and a "Young at Art" photo-collage workshop. 



March 16 



■ Dedication The Smithsonian Tropical Research Insti- 

 tute dedicated its library to Earl S. Tupper on the open- 

 ing of the new annex and the expansion of the original 

 library building, which were made possible by a gift 

 from the Tupper family. The STRI branch of the 

 Smithsonian Institution Libraries has been the premier 

 Central American research library for the scientific com- 

 munity since 1956. The renovated facilities will help 

 staff serve the 18,000 library users who come each year. 



March iy 



■ Special Event To promote understanding of the size 

 and scope of the Smithsonian, the Visitor Information 

 and Associates' Reception Center cohosted a reception 

 with the Washington Area Concierge Association for 

 leading international concierges who were in the city to 

 attend the annual meeting of Les Clefs d'Or. 



March 18-19 



■ Public Program and Exhibition The National Museum 

 of American History presented "What's American 

 about American Quilts?" — a conference examining as- 

 pects of American and European quilting traditions. 

 The forum was produced with support from the Ameri- 

 can Quilt Defense Fund. On March 14, the museum 

 opened the exhibition "Putting Her Best Quilt For- 

 ward: Exhibiting at the Fair," which focused on how 

 19th-century fairs gave women quilters an opportunity 

 to display their talents and gather new ideas. 



March 22 



■ Public Program The National Air and Space 

 Museum's most prestigious space lecture, the Wernher 

 von Braun Memorial Lecture, was presented by Dr. 



John H. Gibbons, assisrant to the president for science 

 and Technology and director of the White House Office 

 of Science and Technology Policy. 



March 23-26 



■ Outreach At the National Science Teachers 

 Association's annual convention in Philadelphia, the Na- 

 tional Science Resources Center exhibited its programs, 

 made presentations, and gave workshops on its Science 

 and Technology for Children curriculum units. 



March 23 



■ Milestone Jomu, one of the world's first cheetahs 

 produced by artificial insemination, became part of the 

 National Zoo's Cheetah Conservation Station. The 21- 

 month-old female is a product of new research in as- 

 sisted reproduction of endangered cats conducted at the 

 Caldwell Zoo in Tyler, Texas, by staff from the Zoo's 

 New Opportunities in Animal Health Sciences Center. 



March 24 



■ Major Gift Agnes Bourne, a San Francisco-based fur- 

 niture and interior designer, and her husband Dr. James 

 Luebbers sold their century-old landmark mansion, 

 Stonehouse, and donated $2 million of the proceeds to 

 Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum for the 

 museums renovation and accessibility project. 



March 24 



■ Exhibition "The Human Figure Interprered: Mod- 

 ern Sculpture from the Hirshhorn Museum" opened 

 at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum in Taiwan, launching 

 a tour that included museums in Otsu, Tokyo, Iwaki, 

 and Takamatsu, Japan. The largest presentation of 

 sculpture from the Hirshhorn ever sent overseas, the 

 exhibition featured some 60 works by Edgar Degas, 

 Henri Matisse, Alexander Archipenko, Alberto 

 Giacometti, Henty Moore, Marino Marini, and — in 

 Japan only, where the tour was supported by Tokyo's 

 Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper chain — Auguste Rodin 

 and Jacques Lipchitz. 



March 25- April 7 



■ Study Tour Smithsonian Associates traveled to Syria 

 for the first time on an international study tour spon- 

 sored by The Smithsonian Associates, visiting the classi- 

 cal archaeological sites of Palmyra and Apamea. 



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