[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 33 (Thursday, February 19, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 8524]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-4225]


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UNITED STATES INFORMATION AGENCY


Culturally Significant Objects Imported for Exhibition; 
Determinations

    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 (43 FR 
13359, March 29, 1978), and Delegation Order No. 85-5 of June 27, 1985 
(50 FR 27393, July 2, 1985), I hereby determine that the objects to be 
included in the exhibit, ``CHUCK CLOSE'' (see list \1\), imported from 
abroad for the temporary exhibition without profit within the United 
States, are of cultural significance. These objects are imported 
pursuant to loan agreements with foreign lenders. I also determine that 
the exhibition or display of the listed exhibit objects at the Museum 
of Modern Art, New York from February 26 to May 26, 1998, after which 
it will travel to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago for 
exhibition June 20 to September 13, 1998 and then to the Hirshhorn 
Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC from October 15, 1998 to 
January 10, 1999, and finally to the Seattle Art Museum from February 
18 to May 9, 1999 is in the national interest. Public Notice of these 
determinations is ordered to be published in the Federal Register.

    \1\ A copy of this list may be obtained by contacting Ms. Neila 
Sheahan, Assistant General Counsel, at (202) 619-5030. The address 
is U.S. Information Agency, 301 4th Street, SW., Room 700, 
Washington, DC 20547-0001.
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    Dated: February 13, 1998.
R. Wallace Stuart,
Acting General Counsel.
[FR Doc. 98-4225 Filed 2-18-98; 8:45 am]
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