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The group includes staff from across the Smithsonian Institution and was developed to work with the Smithsonian's collection, but also to share the information and seek external ties. [5] The group seeks to develop and improve standards for the care of time-based and digital artworks. [5] Projects:
Upon the founding of the Archives, all collections, whether loaned or donated to the Archives, were duplicated on microfilm, allowing the Archives to offer easy access to its collections nationwide and to establish archival databases in New York, Washington, D.C., Boston, Detroit, and at the DeYoung Museum in San Francisco. [8]
The Smithsonian Institution Archives moved into the Capital Gallery Building in August 2006, and has "a state-of-the-art storage facility; a reading room; several special viewing/listening rooms; processing and preservation space; digital imaging and audiovisual processing facilities; an oral history interview studio; and a conservation lab." [15]
This 25-cent issue hit newsstands just days after U.S. President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas, Texas. The cover features a stoic portrait of JFK, while the content inside featured ...
Smithsonian is a science and nature magazine (and associated website, SmithsonianMag.com). It is the official journal published by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., although editorially independent from its parent organization. The first issue was published in 1970. [2]
With public and political pressure on the Smithsonian to resolve the issue, the Museum of Fine Arts and NPG agreed on February 7, 1980, to jointly purchase the portraits. Under the agreement, the paintings would spend three years at the National Portrait Gallery (beginning in July 1980), and then three years in Boston at the Museum of Fine Arts ...
April 11 – Konstantin Yuon, Russian painter and theatre designer (b. 1875) May 11 – Lucien Lelong, French fashion designer (b. 1889) August 12 – André Bauchant, French naïve painter (b. 1873) August 22 – Ted Sears, American animator (b. 1900) August 23 – Marlow Moss, English Constructivist artist (b. 1889)
The May 1977 issue contained an insert from the publisher, Rhett Austell, informing the subscribers that Horizon would become a monthly magazine in soft cover. [3] The reason was plainly financial. Horizon was not able to attract enough subscribers to maintain the luxury magazine devoted to the arts and history that had been envisioned by ...