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Annals of the Smithsonian Institution 2000 



Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture 

 Garden 



Regarding Beauty: A View of the Late Twentieth Century, 



October 7, 1999-January 17, 2000 

 Directions — Shahzia Sikander, November 18, 1999-February 



21, 2000 

 Robert Gober: Sculpture and Drawing, February 24— April 23, 



2000 

 Directions — Leonardo Drew, March 16-June 25, 2000 

 Dali's Optical Illusions, April 19-June 18, 2000 (organized by 



the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut) 

 The Collection in Context: Horace Pippin's "Holy Mountain III," 



September 14, 2000-March 5, 2001 

 Ed Ruscha, June 29-September 17, 2000 

 Directions — Cathy de Monchaux, July 14— October 26, 2000 



National Air and Space Museum 



R. G. Smith: The "Old Master" of the Sky, March 24- 



September 5, 2000 

 Looping the Loop: Posters of Early Flight, April 29-July 9, 2000 



National Museum of African Art 



A Concrete Vision: Oshogbo Art in the 1960s. January 23— 



October 22, 2000 

 The Artistry of African Currency, March 12— July 23, 2000 

 Transatlantic Dialogue: Contemporary Art In and Out of Africa . 



May 21— September 3, 2000 (organized by the Ackland 



Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Chapel 



Hill) 

 Audible Artworks: Selected African Musical Instruments. June 



25, 2000-April 8, 2001 

 Identity of the Sacred: Two Nigerian Shrine Figures, September 



24, 2000-April 2, 2001 



National Museum of American History 



Sporting Invention, October 6, 1999-October 2000 (organized 

 by the museum's Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center 

 for the Study of Invention and Innovation) 



On Time, November 18, 1999-indefinite 



Digilab. December 9, 1999— indefinite 



Lighting a Revolution 2, March 1, 2000— indefinite 



Piano 300: Celebrating Three Centuries of People and Pianos. 

 March 9, 2000-June 3, 2001 



Fast Attacks and Boomers: Submarines in the Cold War. April 12, 

 2000— April 2003 (organized in collaboration with the 

 U.S. Navy and the Naval Submarine League) 



Rock V Soul: Social Crossroads. April 28, 2000— indefinite 

 (organized in collaboration with and presented at the 

 Memphis Rock 'n' Soul Museum, Memphis, Tennessee) 



An American Diary and Memories of Childhood: Paintings and 



Prints by Roger Shimomura, June 10— September 5, 2000 

 The Disability Rights Movement, July 1, 2000— indefinite 



National Museum of the American 

 Indian: George Gustav Heye Center 



Instrument of Change: Jim Schoppert Retrospective Exhibition, 

 194J—1992, October 3, 1999-February 6, 2000 

 (organized by the Anchorage Museum of History and Art) 



Reservation X: The Power of Place, April 9— August 20, 2000 

 (organized by the Canadian Museum of Civilization, 

 Quebec) 



National Museum of Natural History 



Galapagos: A Living Laboratory, October 20, 1999-indefinite 

 In Place of Prairie, November 30, 1999— March 7, 2000 

 African Voices. December 15, 1999-indefinite 

 In Search of Giant Squid, April 1, 2000-indefinite 

 Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga, April 29— September 4, 



2000 

 Selections from Forces of Change: A New View of Nature, June 8— 



October 9, 2000 

 Desert and Sea: Visions of Baja California, September 12, 



2000-March 12, 2001 



National Portrait Gallery 



Ten a Tete: Portraits by Henri Cartier-Bresson, October 29, 



1999-January 8, 2000 

 (Museum closed for renovation on January 10, 2000) 



National Postal Museum 



The Graceful Envelope: Looking at the Century. May 5— October 

 31, 2000 



Artistic License: The Federal Duck Stamp Story, June 30, 2000- 

 indefinite 



"If you ever get a second chance in life" (cyclist Lance Armstrong), 

 July 24— September 5, 2000 



Recounting Roosevelt Presentation Albums, 1903—1905, July 26, 

 2000-February 23, 2001 



Office of Physical Plant, 

 Horticulture Services 



The Artistry of Orchids, January 22— March 26, 2000 (cospon- 

 sored by the U.S. Botanic Garden) 



