February 11—12 



■ Outreach Fifty-five people attended a repatriation 

 workshop in Washington, D.C., sponsored by the Na- 

 tional Museum of the American Indian, the Office of 

 Repatriation of the National Museum of Natural His- 

 tory, and the Keepers of the Treasures, National Park 

 Service. The workshop was designed to teach American 

 Indians, Native Alaskans, and Native Hawaiians the 

 procedures for repatriation as outlined in the Native 

 American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. 



February II 



■ Acquisition A team of National Museum of Ameri- 

 can History staff delivered to the museum a section of 

 the historic Woolworth's lunch counter in Greenville, 

 North Carolina. The counter was the site of the sit-in 

 begun in i960 that led to desegregation of lunch count- 

 ers throughout the South. It was a gift to the museum 

 from the Woolworth Corporation. 



February 14— I? 



■ Professional Meeting More than 200 professionals at- 

 tended the 1994 National Conference on Cultural Prop- 

 erty Protection, which took as its theme "Protection 

 Needs for the Year 2000: The Human Factor." The ses- 

 sion focused on training and management needs over 

 the next decade. 



February ij 



■ Exhibition "Gary Hill," an exhibition of nine room- 

 size video installations by the Seattle-based artist (Amer- 

 ican, b. 1951), opened at the Hirshhorn Museum and 

 Sculpture Garden as the first venue of a six-city national 

 tour organized by the Henry' Art Gallery in Seattle. 



February ij— April 29 



■ Exhibition The New York Regional Center of the Ar- 

 chives of American An mounted "Provincetown Papers: 

 Selections from New Collections," highlighting newly ac- 

 cessible Archives collections of the papers of Houghton 

 Cranford Smith, George Yater, and Ross Moffett. 



bines the sounds of Indian classical and Western music. 

 As part of the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery education pro- 

 gram, Subramaniam gave a free public workshop and 

 evening concert. 



February 20 



■ Exhibition The Arthur M. Sackler Gallery's first 

 major exhibition presenting the arts of Korea found an 

 enthusiastic audience among Korean American and 

 other visitors during its three-month stay. "Korean Arts 

 of the Eighteenth Century: Splendor & Simplicity" was 

 organized by the Asia Society Galleries, New York, in 

 collaboration with the National Museum of Korea. Its 

 presentation at the Sackler Gallery was made possible 

 by public funds and a grant from the Smithsonian Spe- 

 cial Exhibition Fund. 



February 23 



■ Lecture "Armajani on Armajani," a talk by the Min- 

 neapolis sculptor Siah Armajani, inaugurated "The Col- 

 lection Reviewed" program at the Hirshhorn Museum 

 and Sculpture Garden. The program is intended to 

 deepen understanding of the permanent collection. New 

 York-based painter Elizabeth Murray spoke in April as 

 the next participant in the program, which was spon- 

 sored by the Smithsonian Special Exhibition Fund. 



February 24— April 17 



■ Exhibition The Renwick Gallery opened KPMG Peat 

 Marwick Collection: A Gift to the Renuick Gallery, featur- 

 ing a gift of 28 contemporary craft objects. 



February 25— April 24 



■ Exhibition "From Elizabeth I to Elizabeth II: Master 

 Drawings from the National Portrait Gallery, London" 

 was chosen from the rich collections of the National Por- 

 trait Gallery's sister institution in London. The exhibi- 

 tion featured portraits of important and intriguing 

 figures in Britain's history by major British artists of the 

 past 400 years. 



March 



February 18 



■ Workshop and Concert The music ofL. Subramaniam, 

 one of India's most acclaimed classical musicians, com- 



■ Exhibition The National Museum of American Art's 

 major traveling exhibition "Thomas Cole: Landscape 

 into History" brought together more than 75 paintings 

 from public and private lenders for the largest show of 



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