art, opened at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture 

 Garden. The show, on tour from the Montreal Museum 

 of Fine Arts in Canada, included such landmark works 

 of the Pop Art era as Cinema, 1963, as well as single- 

 figure reliefs, boldly expressive paintings and pastels, 

 and the original, mixed-media version o( Depression 

 Bread Line, 1991, recently cast in bronze for Washing- 

 ton's new Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial. As a 

 barometet of Segal's popularity, his auditorium talk on 

 March 9 was so popular that 200 people had to be 

 turned away. In an unprecedented arrangement, the 

 Washington Metropolitan Transit Authority donated 

 advertising for the show in its subways and buses as a 

 public service. After closing on May 17, 1998, the exhibi- 

 tion traveled to the Jewish Museum in New York and 

 the Miami Art Museum in Florida. 



February 23 



■ Benefit The Detroit Council of the Archives of 

 American Art presented its annual black-tie gala, Lundi 

 Gras XXXVIII, "An Evening of Elegance," on February 

 23, 1998. Traditionally held on the Monday preceding 

 Mardi Gras, this is the longest-running fund-raising 

 event for the Archives. 



February 23—27 



■ Program The Center for Museum Studies collabor- 

 ates with George Mason University and Historic 

 Alexandria to offer a one-week workshop for small 

 museums, "Introduction to Museum Management." 



February 25 



■ Award Smithsonian Folkways' six-CD tecording 

 Anthology of American Folk Music received Grammy 

 Awards for best historical album and best album notes 

 at the 40th Annual Grammy Awards Ceremony in New 

 York City. 



Spring 



■ Professional Program The Smithsonian Associates' Na- 

 tional Outreach program formally introduced the 

 Smithsonian Institutes for Professionals. Geared to cor- 

 porate audiences, the institutes include the Smithsonian 

 Creativity Institute, which takes participants into 

 Smithsonian collections, laboratories, and research 

 facilities for customized hands-on workshops designed 

 to introduce participants to new ways of seeing, think- 

 ing, and understanding; the Smithsonian Signature In- 



stitute, which provides a unique behind-the-scenes look 

 at the Smithsonian; and the Smithsonian World Affairs 

 Institute, which uses Smithsonian connections within 

 the Washington international community to examine a 

 selected tegion of the world. 



Spring-Summer 



■ Educational Program The National Museum of 

 American Art held its first high school poster competi- 

 tion and award ceremony in conjunction with the 

 "Posters American Style" exhibition. The poster designs 

 were so popular that the U.S. Department of Veterans 

 Affairs reproduced several of them to display at their 

 facilities in Veteran's hospitals nationwide. 



March 



■ Award The Archives of American Art teceived a 

 grant from the Smithsonian Latino initiatives Fund 

 administered by the Office of the Provost in the amount 

 of $42,984. This grant funded Spanish-to-English 

 translations of 12 oral history interviews with Cuban- 

 American artists. The award allowed the Archives to 

 broaden its current survey of art-related manuscript 

 material in Puerto Rico. 



March 



■ Special Event The National Museum of American 

 Art celebrated the final weekend of "Ansel Adams, A 

 Legacy: Masterworks from the Friends of Photography " 

 with extended evening hours on March 27 and 28, a 

 first for any Smithsonian museum. Both nights featured 

 live jazz, cafe dining, and screenings of a video on 

 Adams's career. More than 11,500 people took advantage 

 of this opportunity, made possible by the generous sup- 

 pott of the Monsanto Corporation, to see the most 

 popular exhibition in the museum's history, which at- 

 tracted some 285,000 visitots in 18 Vz weeks. 



March 



■ Public Program Legal Problems in Museum Administra- 

 tion Conference — OGC in conjunction with the American 

 Law Association-American Bar Association hosted the 

 annual seminar in Chicago. 



March 



■ Exhibition To highlight the Archives of American 

 Gardens Collection, Horticultute Services Division 

 recreated the Lanes End estate at the New England 



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