April 15 



Grants: The Office of Fellowships and Grants named the recipients of fellowships for 

 1987-88. 



April 15 



Course: The Resident Associate Program presented the first session of "The Best of 

 The New Yorker," a course that was arranged in collaboration with The New Yorker 

 magazine and featured Brendan Gill, John Updike, Ann Beattie, Pauline Kael, Calvin 

 Trillin, John McPhee, Mark Singer, Lee Lorenz, George Booth, Ed Koren, Charles Saxon, 

 and Robert Weber. 



April 16 



Acquisition: The National Portrait Gallery acquired J. S. Duplessis's 1785 painting 

 of Benjamin Franklin. 



April 16 



Special Event: Sustaining, Patron and James Smithson Society Members previewed the 

 exhibition "American Art Deco" at the Renwick Gallery. 



April 17 



Agreement: During his visit to the Soviet Union, Smithsonian Secretary Adams signed a 

 protocol of negotiation with the country's Ministry of Culture. The agreement, 

 covering a period from 1988 through 1992, is the first step in a program of 

 cooperation that will include joint research projects and exchanges of art exhibitions 

 and delegations of museum experts and curators. 



April 17 



Exhibition: "American Art Deco," a comprehensive exhibition of more than two hundred 

 objects in all media, opened at the Renwick Gallery. Accompanied by a book of the 

 same title, the exhibition demonstrated how the Art Deco movement's modernist style 

 revolutionized the fine and decorative arts. Art Deco experts participated in a 

 complementary all-day symposium. After its showing at the Renwick, the exhibition was 

 circulated to museums in Miami, Omaha, Tulsa, and St. Paul. 



April 21 



Research Milestone: National Zoological Park scientists used artificial insemination 

 techniques to produce common (European) ferrets. The procedure holds promise as an 

 option for breeding programs to reverse the decline of the endangered black-footed 

 ferret. 



April 24-26 



Special Event: The Smithsonian Women's Committee sponsored the fifth annual 

 Washington Craft Show. One hundred craftspeople exhibited and sold their work in the 

 juried show. Proceeds from the show and the preview reception are used to fund 

 educational and research projects throughout the Institution. 



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