Federal Register: December 29, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 249)
DOCID: fr29de08-110 FR Doc E8-30826
DEPARTMENT OF STATE
State Department
DOCUMENT ID: [Public Notice 6471]
NOTICE: NOTICES
DOCID: fr29de08-110
ACTION: Culturally Significant Objects Imported for Exhibition Determinations:
SUBJECT CATEGORY:
Culturally Significant Objects Imported for Exhibition Determinations: ``Inventing Marcel Duchamp: The Dynamics of Portraiture''
DOCUMENT SUMMARY:
Notice is hereby given of the following determinations: Pursuant to the authority vested in me by the Act of October 19, 1965 (79 Stat. 985; 22 U.S.C. 2459), Executive Order 12047 of March 27, 1978, the Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998 (112 Stat. 2681, et seq.; 22 U.S.C. 6501 note, et seq.), Delegation of Authority No. 234 of October 1, 1999, Delegation of Authority No. 236 of October 19, 1999, as amended, and Delegation of Authority No. 257 of April 15, 2003 [68 FR 19875], I hereby determine that the objects to be included in the exhibition ``Inventing Marcel Duchamp: The Dynamics of Portraiture,'' imported from abroad for temporary exhibition within the United States, are of cultural significance. The objects are imported pursuant to loan agreements with the foreign owners or custodians. I also determine that the exhibition or display of the exhibit objects at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC, from on or about March 27, 2009, until on or about August 2, 2009, and at possible additional exhibitions or venues yet to be determined, is in the national interest. Public Notice of these Determinations is ordered to be published in the Federal Register.
SUMMARY:
Inventing Marcel Duchamp; The Dynamics of Portraiture,
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
For further information, including a
list of the exhibit objects, contact Carol B. Epstein, Attorney
Adviser, Office of the Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State
(telephone: 202/4538048). The address is U.S. Department of State, SA
44, 301 4th Street, SW., Room 700, Washington, DC 205470001. [[Page 79539]]
Dated: December 16, 2008.
C. Miller Crouch,
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Educational and Cultural Affairs, Department of State.
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