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July/August 1989
14 years ago By admin
Volume40Issue5
Throughout 1989 the bicentennial of France’s Revolution is being observed in the United States with hundreds of exhibitions, performances, and symposiums. Among the events that will continue into the second half of the year are the following: is an exhibition at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum in New York City running through July 16. —the germinal original document of the Revolution—will be on loan to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., from France’s National Archives, through October 31. It’l be flown over by a Concorde SST that, when retired from service, will be donated to the Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum. a collection of drawings, prints, and rare books depicting Revolutionary, events, will be at New York City’s Pierpont Morgan Library through August 20. contains more than two hundred objects from French and American collections that spotlight the role of the French aristocrat in both revolutions. This display may be seen at the Queens Museum in New York City from June 9 to August 13 and at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia from October 1 to January 30, 1990. goes on exhibit at the Library of Congress from September 7 to October 22. features French costume at New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art from December 13 to April 15, 1990. organized by the UCLA Film and Television Archive, will make a dozen stops across the country during the year. a six-hour radio special presenting the background, personalities, and events of the Revolution, can be heard nationwide on National Public Radio, July 14. is a yearlong series of programs on events in France, including live coverage of Bastille Day festivities, produced by the Arts and Entertainment cable network. an eighteen-month series of lectures, conferences, symposiums, exhibits, and performances in which scholars from around the world will participate, runs from June 18, 1988, to November 29, 1989. is a similar long-running interdisciplinary program being held at New York University from July 5, 1988, to November 15, 1989. a symposium whose participants include Justice William Brennan of the U.S. Supreme Court, Justice Robert Badinter of France, and Mayor Andrew Young of Atlanta, will be held in New Orleans from September 6 to September 9. is expected to draw nearly two hundred scholars from Europe and the United States. Organized by Florida State University, it will be held in Tallahassee, Florida, from September 28 to September 30. sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and the National Academy of Sciences, will take place in Charlottesville, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., October 25 to October 28. an exhibition that celebrates the 225th anniversary of the founding of St. Louis by French Creole settlers, is on display at the History Museum, Forest Park, St. Louis, March 5 to December 31. a French festival held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, includes ballet, theater, opera, and symphonic music, from July 13 to July 16. French Dance Today includes nine French contemporary companies that will appear at a number of American dance festivals in July. an Omnimax film about the history of telecommunications from the French Revolution to the present, opens on July 10 at both the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., and the Robin Fleet Museum in San Diego.