November 4 



■ Museum Shop The newly expanded and renovated 

 museum shop opened at the National Museum of 

 American Art. 



November 6 



■ Television Premiere "Dream Window: Reflections on 

 the Japanese Garden," produced by the Office of 

 Telecommunicarions in association with Kajima Vision, 

 premiered on PBS. 



November 7 



■ International Visitors Officials of the Department of 

 Antiquities of Jordan visited the Conservation Analyti- 

 cal Laboratory to inspect completed conservation work 

 on part of the plaster sculpture excavated at the site 

 'Ain Ghazal (7th millennium B.C.). Director General of 

 Antiquities Safwan Khalaf as-Tell signed the proposal 

 for treatment of this material. 



November j 



■ Exhibition "Alfredo Jaar WORKS," an installation 

 by this Chilean-born artist, opened at the Hirshhorn 

 Museum and Sculpture Garden as the year's project of 

 site-specific art under a grant from the Andy Warhol 

 Foundation for the Visual Arts. Built in a darkened 

 Abram Lerner Balcony Room, the piece, titled 

 "MVSEVM," used five sculptural light boxes to jux- 

 tapose a serene museum atmosphere with disturbing im- 

 ages from the Persian Gulf War. 



November 13 



■ Permanent Exhibition A new gallery, "Legend, 

 Memory, and the Great War in the Air," opened at the 

 National Air and Space Museum. In a departure from 

 traditional museum exhibitions on World War I avia- 

 tion, this gallery contrasts the romantic myth of gallant 

 combat in the sky with the grim reality faced by early 

 military aviators. 



November 14 



■ Lecture A Woodrow Wilson Center session on 

 "Perestroika in Retrospect" featured Egor Ligachev, a 

 former conservative Politburo member and a leading an- 

 tagonist of Gorbachev on Soviet economic reform, who 



addressed the legacy of perestroika in the former Soviet 

 Union. 



November 14 



■ New Facility The new National Zoo molecular 

 genetics (DNA "fingerprinting") laboratory opened to 

 investigate the mysteries of complex animal mating 

 strategies and the evolutionary relationships of animals. 



November 1$ 



■ Honor Arthur E. Raymond, aircraft designer and the 

 "father" of the DC-3 airplane, and John C. Mather and 

 the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) Team were 

 each awarded the National Air and Space Museum 

 Trophy. 



November 16 



■ Symposium A symposium was held at the National 

 Portrait Gallery in connection with the exhibition 

 "Ralph Earl: The Face of the Young Republic." A 

 variety of papers were presented by scholars from 

 the Wadsworth Atheneum, Columbia University, the 

 National Portrait Gallery, and the University of 

 Pennsylvania. 



November 18 



■ Conference Participation The Office of Printing and 

 Photographic Services participated in ongoing meetings 

 of subcommittees of the American National Standards 

 Institute. The subcommittees are developing test 

 methods to determine archival permanence in 

 photographic materials. 



November ip-21 



■ Conference The National Forum on Ocean Conserva- 

 tion brought together scientists, policy makers, and 

 members of the general public to frame the critical is- 

 sues, outline the state of knowledge, and discuss policy 

 options and research needs for ocean conservation. The 

 forum was organized by the Office of Environmental 

 Awareness. 



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