translated into Spanish from English, confirmed the 

 Smithsonian Institution Press's strong publishing list in 

 Latin American and pan-American publishing. 



rural Revolution. Other gallery film programs this year 

 included work from Japan, the Republic of China, 

 Korea, India, and Cambodia. 



October ippj— September ipp4 



■ Acquisitions Some 330 paintings, sculptures, works 

 on paper, photographs, and crafts were added to the col- 

 lection of the National Museum of American Art dur- 

 ing this fiscal year. Key acquisitions include Technology. 

 1991, the first work by artist Nam June Paik to enter 

 the collection of a public museum in Washington, D.C.; 

 Georgia O'Keeffe s Cityscape with Roses, 1932, a gift of 

 the Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation; Louise Nevelson's im- 

 mense painted wood construction, Sky Cathedral, 1982; 

 and African American sculptor Edmonia Lewis' largest and 

 most ambitious work, The Death of Cleopatra, 1876. 



October 1 



■ Seminars The American Studies Program became part 

 of the National Postal Museum and began offering semi- 

 nars on "Material Aspects of American Civilization." 



October 5 



■ Gift The National Postal Museum received a 

 $500,000 pledge from Jeanette Cantrell Rudy for the 

 creation of a Federal Duck Stamp gallery. This pledge is 

 the largest from an individual to the museum. 



October 6 



■ Exhibition "Shared Visions: Native American Paint- 

 ers and Sculptors in the 20th Century," sponsored by 

 the National Museum of the American Indian and the 

 International Gallery, closed a four-month run after at- 

 tracting 56,700 visitors. Organized by the Heard Mu- 

 seum of Phoenix, Arizona, the traveling exhibition 

 included paintings and sculpture from NMAI and the 

 Heard as well as other museums and private collections. 



October 7 



October I 



■ Information Systems The Office of Protection Services 

 placed into operation a new data management and re- 

 porting system, which allows officers to report incidents 

 from the location at which they occurred and retrieve in- 

 formation about events that have occurred. The new sys- 

 tem allows OPS to capture for the first time 

 information about services to employees and visitors. 



October 2 



■ Radio Series The Office of Telecommunications' 

 Folk Masters series began its fourth season of 26 one- 

 hour programs over 75 public radio stations in the 

 United States and on BBC Scotland. 



October 2 



■ Film Series A series on China's new cinema, spon- 

 sored by the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, opened with a 

 day-long seminar and continued with two weeks of 

 films by China's "Fifth Generation" of filmmakers. The 

 programs included work by such acclaimed directors as 

 Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, and Huang Jianxin, all 

 members of the first graduating class of the Beijing 

 Film Academy following its reopening after the Cul- 



■ Exhibition The Smithsonian Tropical Research 

 Institute's traveling photographic exhibition, "Parting 

 the Green Curtain," opened for six months at the 

 Fundacion Museo de Ciencias in Caracas, Venezuela. 



October 8 



■ Exhibition The National Air and Space Museum 

 opened "Monitoring Amazonia from Space," a temporary 

 exhibition demonstrating the use of modem satellite tech- 

 nology to monitor the development and degradation of 

 one of the world's most complex and diverse ecosystems. 



October 8 



■ Acquisition The United States Marshals Service pre- 

 sented a gleaming, streamlined, and very rare 1948 

 Tucker automobile, one of only 51 that were manufac- 

 tured, to the National Museum of American History's 

 transportation collection. 



October 13 



■ Grant The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded 

 a three-year grant of $900,000 to support initiatives in 

 plant ecological research at the Smithsonian Tropical Re- 

 search Institute. 



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