the ecology and management of tropical forests at sites 

 around the world. 



October-/ 



u Staff Richard Louie, associate director of the Freer 

 Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Saclder Gallery, died 

 as the result of head injuries sustained in an accident. 

 Mr. Louie, who joined the staff of the Freer Gallery of 

 Art as assistant director in 1978, had served as associate 

 director of the Freer and Saclder galleries since 1989. 



October 10 



m Symposium With National Air and Space Museum 

 conservator Edward McManus, Conservation Analytical 

 Laboratory metallurgist Martha Goodway presented a 

 symposium titled "Preserving America's Space Legacy 

 for the Future" at the annual Materials Congress of 

 ASM International. CAL research organic chemist Mary 

 Baker spoke on her current research on the deterioration 

 of the Gemini space suits. 



October 10 



■ Public Program "An Evening with Agnes de Mille" 

 was held at the National Portrait Gallery. In this contin- 

 uation of the gallery's living self-portrait series, Marc 

 Pachter interviewed the distinguished pioneer of 20th- 

 century choreography who is credited with changing 

 the look of the American musical theater. 



October II 



m Cultural Diversity The Office of Interdisciplinary 

 Studies launched a two-year bimonthly seminar series 

 on the theme of cultural diversity, designed to exem- 

 plify the nation's pluralism and discuss strategies to ex- 

 pand the cultural diversity policy at the Smithsonian. 



October 11 



m Benefit A preview of "Images & Objects," Boston's 

 first comprehensive art and design exposition, benefited 

 the New England Regional Center of the Archives of 

 American Art. 



October 16-February 24, ippi 



■ Exhibition Cooper-Hewitt, National Museum of De- 

 sign mounted "Mondo Matenalis," an exhibition of 



more than IOO diverse and innovative collage panels 

 that explore both new and old materials. The panels 

 were created by leading international architects and 

 designers. 



October iy 



■ Colloquium The fourth colloquium held in conjunc- 

 tion with the presentation of the World Food Prize at 

 the Smithsonian, "Frontiers of Nutrition and Food 

 Security," featured scientists from China, India, 

 Botswana, Chile, and the Philippines. The collo- 

 quium was organized by the Office of Institutional 

 Studies. 



October 18 



■ Exhibition "John Baldessari," a retrospective honor- 

 ing a West Coast artist who is considered a seminal 

 figure in the use of mass-media imagery to challenge 

 conventional attitudes about art and contemporary 

 culture, opened at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculp- 

 ture Garden in its first East Coast venue in a national 

 tour organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, 

 Los Angeles. 



October 18 



■ Benefit The National Museum of American Art 

 hosted its first benefit dinner at the Equitable Center in 

 New York City for 250 guests and museum patrons. 



October 18-ip 



■ Symposium "Application of Autoradiography to Re- 

 search in Art History" brought together curators, art 

 history professors, and conservators whose institutions 

 have collections that they might wish to study using au- 

 toradiography. The symposium was organized by Ingrid 

 Alexander, research art historian with the Conservation 

 Analytical Laboratory, and funded by the Office of Fel- 

 lowships and Grants. 



October ip 



■ Premiere The Smithsonian Resident Associate Pro- 

 gram cosponsored the gala benefit world premiere of 

 Dances with Wolves with the National Museum of the 

 American Indian. Kevin Costner and other members of 

 the cast and production attended the premiere. 



