Culturally Significant Objects Imported for Exhibition Determinations: Shigeyuki Kihara: Living Photographs

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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

Public Notice 6319

Culturally Significant Objects Imported for Exhibition

Determinations: ``Shigeyuki Kihara: Living Photographs''

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 in the exhibition: ``Shigeyuki Kihara: Living Photographs,'' imported from abroad for temporary exhibition within the United States, are of cultural significance. The objects are imported pursuant to a loan agreement with the foreign owner or custodian. I also determine that the exhibition or display of the exhibit objects at the Metropolitan

Museum of Art, New York, NY, from on or about October 7, 2008, until on or about February 1, 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.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For further information, including a list of the exhibit objects, contact Julie Simpson, Attorney-Adviser,

Office of the Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State (telephone: 202- 453-8050). The address is U.S. Department of State, SA-44, 301 4th

Street, SW., Room 700, Washington, DC 20547-0001.

Dated: August 11, 2008.

3. Miller Crouch,

Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Educational and Cultural

Affairs, Department of State.

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