June 9 



■ Conference Participation Anacostia Museum Director 

 Steven Newsome was a featured speaker at the "Politics 

 of Collecting" conference in Walsall, England. 



June II 



■ Lecture At a Woodrow Wilson Center Evening 

 Dialogue on "Federalism: Problems and Prospects of a 

 Constitutional Value," Associate Justice Sandra Day O'- 

 Connor addressed the complex jurisdictional problems 

 raised by the pattern of American federalism. 



June II 



■ Exhibition "Crosscurrents of Modernism: Four Latin 

 American Pioneers," an exhibition organized by the 

 Hirshhorn Museum and Sculptute Garden as part of the 

 Smithsonian's Quincentenary observance, opened with 

 94 works by Mexican Diego Rivera, Uruguayan Joaquin 

 Torres-Garcia, Cuban Wifredo Lam, and Chilean-born 

 Matta. A bilingual (Spanish and English) catalog and 

 brochure were published for the exhibition. Educational 

 events included a scholarly symposium on June 27 and a 

 festival— family day celebration on September 5. 



June 1 1- 1 2 



■ Conference "Analytical Image Processing in Art and 

 Archives," organized by the Conservation Analytical 

 Laboratory and the National Archives and Records Ad- 

 ministration, brought together some 40 people from the 

 United States, Canada, and Europe who use digital 

 image processing in conservation, art history, and ar- 

 chaeology. 



June I2-July 8 



■ Workshop "Design and Planning of Museum 

 Facilities" was arranged by the Office of Museum 

 Programs for architects from Ghana working to restore 

 Elmina Castle. 



June IS 



■ Benefit A celebrity art auction to benefit the Nation- 

 al Museum of the American Indian was sponsored by 

 Washington Artworks, a volunteer group that includes 

 many members of Congress, their spouses, local busi- 

 ness leaders, and arts patrons. Mrs. George Bush served 



as honorary chair, and Bob Schieffer of CBS News was 

 master of ceremonies. The auction netted approximately 

 $60,000. 



June 16, June $0, July 7, July 21 



■ Lecture-Performances "De Generacion a Generacion," a 

 summer lecture-concert series at Cooper-Hewitt, Na- 

 tional Museum of Design explored the culture and tradi- 

 tions that give form and meaning to Mexican craft, 

 ritual, music, film, and dance. 



June 17 



m Conservation The two-year conservation of Harmony 

 in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room, the only surviving 

 interior scheme by American expatriate artist James 

 McNeill Whistler, was completed in the Freer Gallery 

 of Art. The project planning and execution involved the 

 Freer staff and conservators from the University of 

 Delaware/Winterthur Art Conservation Program. The 

 project was supported by the Getty Grant Program of 

 the J. Paul Getty Trust, the James Smithson Society, 

 and the Mars Foundation. 



June 22 



■ Acquisition The National Numismatic Collection of 

 the National Museum of American History acquired 

 from Frank Kovacs of San Mateo, California, a gift of 

 142 counterfeit dies of ancient Greek, Roman, and 

 Byzantine coins. The dies will allow identification and 

 documentation of counterfeit coins previously thought 

 authentic by experts and museums throughout the 

 world. 



June 22 



■ Celebration More than 5,000 people attended 

 Juneteenth '92 at the Anacostia Museum, an annual ob- 

 servance of the day that slaves in Texas learned about 

 the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. Live per- 

 formances, craft demonstrations, storytelling, and pup- 

 petry were featured. 



June 22-26, July 22-24 



■ Summer Institute The National Science Resources 

 Center held two Elementary Science Leadership In- 

 stitutes for 29 participating teams of administrators, cur- 

 riculum and instruction supervisors, science 



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