for more than 300 guests at the Newberry Library in 

 Chicago. 



October 21—24 



■ Exhibition The New Mexico program at the 1992 Fes- 

 tival of American Folklife was restaged in Las Cruces, 

 New Mexico, featuring artists from 35 communities and 

 representing every part of the state. Center for Folklife 

 Programs and Cultural Studies staff participated in plan- 

 ning and production of the festival. 



October 21— January p 



■ Exhibition "Willem de Kooning from the Hirshhorn 

 Museum Collection," an exhibition of 50 works charting 

 the Dutch-born American artist's development from 

 1939 to 1985, launched an extensive tour through mid- 

 1995 t0 Barcelona, Atlanta, Boston, and Houston. A 

 lively roundtable discussion by four of the artist's long- 

 time friends highlighted the opening day. The exhibi- 

 tion, accompanied by a 215-page scholarly catalogue and 

 numerous public programs, attracted some 150,000 visi- 

 tors to the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. 

 The Washington presentation was made possible in part 

 by a grant from Time Warner Inc. 



October 22— February 13 



■ Exhibition "Twentieth-Century Self- Portraits from 

 the National Portrait Gallery Collection" included 47 

 self-portraits by such noted 20th-century American art- 

 ists as Thomas Hart Benton, George Bellows, Berenice 

 Abbott, Alexander Calder, and Chuck Close. 



October 22— February j_j 



■ Exhibition "VanDerZee, Photographer (1886— 1983)," 

 on view at the National Portrait Gallery, featured more 

 than 100 photographs by one of the most important Af- 

 rican American photographers of the 20th century. 

 VanDerZee is best known for the photographs he took 

 in New York's Harlem during the 1920s and 1930s. 



October 22 



■ Lecture Rosemary Scott delivered the John A. Pope 

 Memorial Lecture, an annual event honoring the former 

 director of the Freer Gallery of Art. Scott, who is cura- 

 tor at the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, 

 School of Oriental and African Studies, University of 

 London, spoke on "The Decorative Thread: Ming Porce- 

 lain and Its Relation to Other Materials." 



October 22 



■ Award Olive Ann Beech, a leading woman entrepre- 

 neur in American aviation, and Compton J. Tucker, a pi- 

 oneer in the study of global environmental problems 

 from space, received the 1993 National Air and Space 

 Museum Trophies. Beech, who died July 6, 1993, was se- 

 lected for a lifetime of contributions; Tucker was hon- 

 ored for current achievement. 



October 23 



■ Family Program "Young at Art," a popular program 

 of Saturday-morning workshops for children and their 

 parents at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Gar- 

 den, began the first of six sessions for the I993— 94 season 

 with "Children, Clay, and de Kooning." The sculpture- 

 making event was attended by the artist's daughter and 

 granddaughter. Subsequent workshops focused on the 

 sculpture garden, the assemblage technique, and the 

 Glenn Ligon and Felix Gonzalez-Torres exhibitions. 



October 23 



■ Concert Series Launching its 16th season at the 

 Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the 20th 

 Century Consort presented the first of six Saturday-after- 

 noon performances. The series was cosponsored by The 

 Smithsonian Associates. 



October 26 



■ Event A gala benefit and tribute to Frank Stella marked 

 the Archives of American Art exhibition of the papers of the 

 renowned postwar American artist. The Stella papers are one 

 of the Archives' most important recent acquisitions. 



October 26-September 



■ Exhibition The National Air and Space Museum 

 mounted an exhibition featuring the world's first opera- 

 tional jet bomber, the German Arado Ar 234B Blitz. 

 The exhibit was the second in the museum's "Air Power 

 in World War II" series. 



October 27 



■ Online Service The National Museum of Natural 

 History's Internet Gopher went online. In the first three 

 months alone, with minimal publicity, client requests 

 numbered more than 39,000. Begun by the Department 

 of Botany, the Gopher has grown to include databases 

 and documents from the U.S. National Herbarium, the 



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