[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 7 (Tuesday, January 12, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 1874]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-679]


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UNITED STATES INFORMATION AGENCY


Culturally Significant Objects Imported for Exhibition 
Determinations: ``Francis Bacon: A Retrospective Exhibition''

AGENCY: United States Information Agency.

ACTION: Notice.

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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 
(43 F.R. 13359, March 29, 1978), and Delegation Order No. 85-5 of June 
27, 1985 (50 F.R. 27393, July 2, 1985), I hereby determine that the 
objects on the list specified below, to be included in the exhibit 
``Francis Bacon: A Retrospective Exhibition,'' imported from abroad for 
the temporary exhibition without profit within the United States, are 
of cultural significance. These objects are imported pursuant to a loan 
agreement with the foreign lender. I also determine that the exhibition 
or display of the listed exhibit objects at the Yale Center for British 
Art, New Haven, Connecticut, from on or about January 23, 1999 to on or 
about March 21, 1999, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, 
Minnesota, from on or about April 8, 1999 to on or about May 27, 1999, 
the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco: California Palace of the Legion 
of Honor, San Francisco, California, from on or about June 13, 1999 to 
on or about August 2, 1999, and the Modern Art Museum of Forth Worth, 
Fort Worth, Texas, from on or about August 20, 1999 to on or about 
October 15, 1999, is in the national interest. Public Notice of these 
determinations is ordered to be published in the Federal Register.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For a copy of the list of imported 
exhibit objects or for further information, contact Lorie J. 
Nierenberg, Assistant General Counsel, Office of the General Counsel, 
202/619-6084, and the address is Room 700, U.S. Information Agency, 301 
4th Street, SW, Washington, DC 20547-0001.

    Dated: January 6, 1999.
R. Wallace Stuart,
Deputy General Counsel.
[FR Doc. 99-679 Filed 1-11-99; 8:45 am]
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