April 8 



April 17 



■ Award Julie Johnson Kidd, former chairman of the 

 board of trustees of the Museum of the American In- 

 dian, Heye Foundation, was awarded the James Smith- 

 son Medal. 



April 8 



■ Special Event The Office of International Relations 

 hosted a reception for the acting secretary general of the 

 International Council of Museums (ICOM) and mem- 

 bers of the ICOM planning committee for the confer- 

 ence "What Museums for Africa: Heritage in the 

 Future?" 



■ Lecture A Woodrow Wilson Center meeting on the 

 foreign policy legacies of Woodrow Wilson featured 

 U.S. Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan's address on the ap- 

 plicability of Wilsonian ideals to contemporary interna- 

 tional conflicts. 



April 17 



■ Lecture The Dalai Lama delivered his first Washing- 

 ton public address since receiving the 1989 Nobel Peace 

 Prize. The lecture, organized by the Resident Associate 

 Program, commemorated the International Year of 

 Tibet. The event attracted more than 2,200 participants. 



April II 



■ Special Event The Office of Development held a 

 donor cultivation event in conjunction with the Na- 

 tional Museum of American Art exhibition "Prout's 

 Neck Observed: Winslow Homer in the 1890s." 



April 11 



■ Benefit Cooper-Hewitt, National Museum of De- 

 sign; Vitae Publishing; and Parsons School of Design 

 hosted a tribute to Mrs. Henry Parish II and Albert 

 Hadley of the interior design firm Parish-Hadley Associ- 

 ates, Inc. The event raised $3,000 for the Parsons/Coo- 

 per-Hewitt Master's Degree Program in the History of 

 Decorative Arts. 



April 12 



■ Exhibition "Lenore Tawney Retrospective," showing 

 the United States' foremost fiber artist, opened at the 

 Renwick Gallery. 



April 15 



■ Awards The Office of Fellowships and Grants of- 

 fered 121 Smithsonian pre- and postdoctoral fellowships 

 this year. 



April /J 



■ Award Paul E. Ewald of Amherst College was 

 awarded the first George E. Burch Fellowship. The 

 award was announced by the Office of Fellowships and 

 Grants. 



April ip 



■ Exhibition "Beyond the Java Sea: Art of Indonesia's 

 Outer Islands" opened in the National Museum of Natural 

 History Thomas Evans Gallery, continuing through July 14. 



April ip 



■ Exhibition "Annie Leibovitz Photographs 1970-1990" 

 opened at the National Portrait Gallery. Organized by the 

 International Center of Photography, New York City, in 

 conjunction with the gallery, this exhibition surveyed 20 

 years of Leibovitz s portraits of figures in American popu- 

 lar culture, from her earliest photojournalism for Rolling 

 Stone to her present work for Vanity Fair. 



April ip-20 



m Symposium The fifth symposium of the American Com- 

 mittee for South Asian Art, "Current Research in South 

 and Southeast Asian Art and Archaeology," was sponsored 

 by the Arthur M Sackler Gallery and the Freer Gallery of 

 Art. The public symposium included papers by 66 schol- 

 ars as well as museum visits and receptions. 



April 2$-2$ 



■ Course "Exhibition Materials," a new pilot course for 

 exhibition designers organized by senior textile conser- 

 vator Mary Ballard, was held at the Conservation Ana- 

 lytical Laboratory. 



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