June 6 



Tribute: In a small ceremony, the reflecting pool of the Hirshhorn Museum and 

 Sculpture Garden was named the Jacob and Charlotte Lehrman Foundation Pool in 

 acknowledgement of a generous grant to the museum from that foundation. 



June 9 



Lecture: The first offering in the Joseph Fletcher, Jr., Lecture Series was 

 delivered by Glenn D. Lowry, curator of Near Eastern art at the Arthur M. Sackler 

 Gallery and the Freer Gallery of Art. The three-part series focused on various 

 aspects of Persian art and architecture and was held to coincide with the Sackler 

 Gallery exhibition "Timur and the Princely Vision: Persian Art and Culture in 

 the Fifteenth Century." The remaining two lectures in the series were delivered 

 by John Woods of the University of Chicago and Lisa Golumbek of the Royal Ontario 

 Museum in Toronto, Canada. 



June 9 



Workshop: A workshop for bureau office directors and central managers was held 

 to identify ways to improve the planning process at the Smithsonian. The 

 workshop was sponsored by the Office of Planning and Budget and conducted by the 

 National Center for Higher Educational Management Systems. 



June 13 



Special Event: The second annual Smithsonian Garden Party honoring the new 

 members of the Board of Regents, Vice President Quayle and Rep. Jamie Whitten, 

 and members of the 101st Congress was held in the Enid A. Haupt Garden. 



June 14-17 



Triennial Meeting: The Museum of African Art hosted the Eighth Triennial 

 Symposium on African Art organized by the Arts Council of the African Studies 

 Association and sponsored by ACASA, Shell Companies Foundation, Inc., the 

 National Museum of African Art, and the National Museum of Natural History. 



June 15 



Symposium: In conjunction with the Cooper-Hewitt Museum's exhibition "L'Art de 

 Vivre," a symposium titled "A Taste for History: Furnishings and Fashion in 

 19th-century France" was held. The all-day symposium included three scholarly 

 lectures about the evolution of the interior, the art of the table, and the art 

 of fashion during the period, followed by a roundtable discussion with curators, 

 editors, and important French design industry executives. 



June 16 



Exhibition: "Aeropittura Futurista: Images of Flight in Italian Art from 1913 

 to 1942" opened at the National Air and Space Museum. The exhibition emphasized 

 a style of futurism that embraced technology as its subject matter and glorified 

 the airplane as a symbol of the modern age. Some seventy works of art and forty 

 documents were on display for the three-month exhibition. 



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