November 5 



■ Symposium "Willem de Kooning Reconsidered," a 

 half-day scholarly symposium organized by the Hirshh- 

 orn Museum and Sculpture Garden with the Archives of 

 American Art and supported in part by a grant from 

 The Brown Foundation, Inc., explored de Kooning's pro- 

 duction in the Netherlands (Judith Wolfe of the City 

 University of New York), the critical response to his 

 "Woman" series (David Cateforis of the University of 

 Kansas), and the continuity of his art with tradition 

 (critic Carter Ratcliff). The Archives' New York re- 

 gional director Stephen Polcari served as respondent. 



November p-January 23 



■ Exhibition For the first time in the history of Cooper- 

 Hewitt, National Design Museum, an exhibition cre- 

 ated by the museum was shown at a Smithsonian 

 facility on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. "The 

 Power of Maps," with more than 200 maps from a vari- 

 ety of time periods and cultures, was presented at the 

 International Gallery. 



affiliations to the materials. The mailings went to more 

 than 700 tribes recognized by federal and state govern- 

 ments under the Native American Graves Protection 

 and Repatriation Act. Inventories were also sent to state- 

 recognized tribes not included under the act but in- 

 cluded in policies adopted by the museum's board of 

 trustees. 



November 18-19 



■ Symposium "Biodiversity: From 1986 to the 21st Cen- 

 tury" was hosted by the Smithsonian Institution as the 

 first joint activity of the Consortium for Systematics 

 and Biodiversity, a new organization that includes the 

 National Museum of Natural History. Secretary of the 

 Interior Bruce Babbitt and Thomas E. Lovejoy, 

 Smithsonian assistant secretary for environmental and 

 external affairs, presented opening addresses. The con- 

 sortium was created to address the problems of 

 biodiversity, noting that only 10 to 20 percent of the 

 world's biological species have been described. 



November 21 



November 11— February 20 



■ Exhibition "Directions-Glenn Ligon: To Disem- 

 bark," an exhibition of prints, sculptures, and wall draw- 

 ings supported in part by the Bohen Foundation, was 



on view at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Gar- 

 den. A public talk by the New York-based African 

 American artist was one of the opening events. 



November 15 



■ Concert Series Musicians from Marlboro, a chamber 

 music group from Marlboro, Vermont, gave the first of 

 its free public concerts in the Eugene and Agnes E. 

 Meyer Auditorium of the Freer Gallery of Art. The 

 group's three concerts this year were part of the Bill and 

 Mary Meyer Concert Series, established in memory of 

 Dr. Eugene Meyer III and Mary Adelaide Bradley 

 Meyer. The series, which continues next year, is gener- 

 ously supported by The Island Fund in The New York 

 Community Trust and Elizabeth E. Meyer. 



November 16 



■ Public Program The National Museum of the Ameri- 

 can Indian completed the mailing of itemized invento- 

 ries of its collections to tribes with possible cultural 



■ Exhibition Opening "Contemporary Porcelain from 

 Japan," an exhibition of 30 vessels by 30 Japanese art- 

 ists, celebrated The Japan Foundation's gift of these 

 masterworks to the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. The exhi- 

 bition, which was presented in cooperation with the 

 Embassy of Japan, The Japan Foundation, and the 

 Kokusai Bunka Kyokai (International Cultural Associa- 

 tion), emphasized the crafting of porcelain as a living 

 art. 



November 22 



■ Lecture "On the Trail of W.E.B. Du Bois," a lecture 

 by African American scholar David Levering Lewis pre- 

 sented at the National Portrait Gallery, related the joys 

 and perils of researching his book, W.E.B. Du Bois. 1868- 

 ipip: Biography of a Race. Lewis is a commissioner of the 

 National Portrait Gallery. 



November 22 



■ Appointment Peterson Zah and Rosalind Begay Zah, 

 president and first lady of the Navajo Nation, joined 

 the International Founders Council of the National Mu- 

 seum of the American Indian National Campaign. The 

 28-member council is the volunteer body that leads the 

 campaign's fund-raising efforts. 



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