Named to Florida's Black Heritage Trail in 1991, American Beach, established in the thirties, is the oldest continuous-existence black-owned seacoast town in the United States.

Paper presented at the conference Museums and Communities, held at the International Center of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, March 21-23, 1990, and sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Smithsonian. (from abstract)

Paper presented at the conference Museums and Communities, held at the International Center of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, March 21-23, 1990, and sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Smithsonian.

Review by Danielle Rice of the book Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display [Washington, DC and London, England: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991, 468 p.].

Review by James E. Suelflow of the book Workpapers I: Rethinking and Restructuring the Arts Organization [New York, NY: FEDAPT, 1990, 141 p.]. These volumes (Working Papers I and Working Papers II), the first two in a series of new FEDAPT (The Foundation for the Extension and Development of the American Professional Theatre) publications, are designed to explore pressing issues affecting performing arts organizations and to be used as springboards to advance ideas on particular arts management issues.

Review by James E. Suelflow of the book Workpapers II: Arts Boards: Myths, Perspectives and New Approaches [New York, NY: FEDAPT, 1991, 86 p.]. These two volumes (Workpapers I: Rethinking and Restructuring the Arts Organization; and Workpapers II:  Arts Boards: Myths, Perspectives and New Approaches), the first two in a series of new FEDAPT (the Foundation for the Extension and Development of the American Professional Theatre) publications, are designed to explore pressing issues affecting performing arts organizations and to be used as springboards to advance

The author comments on how museums, and in particular, the Smithsonian, address issues of diversity in the context of American and world culture.

The essays in this book were presented at the conference Museums and Communities: the Politics of Public Culture, held at the International Center of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, March 21-23, 1990, and sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Smithsonian.

The following texts, which were written over a period of five years, reflect some of the changes in the way Latinos perceive identity, community, national culture, and art along the -Mexico border. (from abstract)

The premise underlying this essay is that all museums are, at the most fundamental level, concerned with information: its generation, its perpetuation, its organization, and its dissemination. (from abstract)