A Man" series by Mike Kelley of Los Angeles, and, dur- 

 ing the summer of 1991, an installation on the theme of 

 racism titled "What It's Like, What It Is #2," by the 

 Massachusetts-based artist Adrian Piper. 



November 2—4 



■ Anniversary The centennial of the Smithsonian As- 

 trophysical Observatory and the sesquicentennial of the 

 Harvard College Observatory, its partner in the Center 

 for Astrophysics, were celebrated jointly with a scien- 

 tific symposium and open house in Cambridge, 

 Massachusetts. 



November 3—4 



U Symposium A two-day symposium, "The Modernist 

 Impulse in the Landscape of Invention: Los Angeles Ar- 

 chitecture, 1920-1990," was created by the Education 

 Department of Cooper-Hewitt, National Museum of 

 Design. Participants discussed the effect of proponents 

 of the International Style, who emigrated from Europe 

 to Los Angeles in the 1920s and 1930s, on Southern Cali- 

 fornia architecture. 



November 6 



■ Agreement The National Postal History and Phila- 

 telic Museum, a satellite of the National Museum of 

 American History, was created with the signing of a 

 joint agreement by Secretary Robert McC. Adams and 

 Postmaster General Anthony M. Frank. The museum 

 will open to the public in 1993 following a $15.4 million 

 renovation and construction program in the former 

 Washington, D.C., main post office next to Union 

 Station. 



November 7 and June 73 



■ Collection Information The Office of Printing and Pho- 

 tographic Services opened the first on-line libraries of 

 Smithsonian digital photographs in the Art Gallery 

 Forum of CompuServe and the Photography Round 

 Table of GEnie. 



November j—8 



■ Workshop A workshop cosponsored by the Office of 

 Environmental Awareness and the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion Traveling Exhibition Service brought together 20 



experts on education, exhibitions, and solid waste to 

 start planning an exhibition on the solid waste crisis. 



November p 



m Exhibition "Glassworks" opened at the Renwick Gal- 

 lery, showing room-size works by artists challenged by 

 this material. 



November p 



■ Exhibition "Old Hickory: A Life Sketch of Andrew 

 Jackson" opened at the National Portrait Gallery. 

 Coorganized with the Tennessee State Museum, this ex- 

 hibition included portraits of Andrew Jackson as sol- 

 dier, hero, politician, and American icon. Members of 

 his family, his "Kitchen Cabinet," and political friends 

 and enemies were also represented. Sponsored in part by 

 the Tennessee General Assembly, this was the last in a 

 series of exhibitions celebrating the bicentennial of the 

 U.S. Constitution. 



November p 



m Lecture To mark the 50th anniversary of the Battle of 

 Britain, the National Air and Space Museum convened 

 a panel of four RAF pilots and four Luftwaffe pilots to 

 share their memories of the battle. The panel was mod- 

 erated by Air Vice-Marshal Ron Dick. 



November 10 



m Exhibition The National Air and Space Museum 

 opened a new exhibit supporting the German V-2 

 rocket, examining this first ballistic missile in its broad 

 historical and technological contexts. 



November II 



U High School Project The Office of Printing and Photo- 

 graphic Services hosted and cosponsored with the 

 White House News Photographers Association the 

 nation's only free high school seminar in still and video 

 news photography. 



November /_j 



■ Colloquium Several members of Congress partici- 

 pated in a Woodrow Wilson Center Evening Dialogue 

 entitled "Government, Power and Prophecy: Lessons of 

 the Talmud for Our Time," in which renowned scholar 



