30-Year TV/Smithsonian Deal

The House Administration Committee held a hearing Thursday on the deal which the Smithsonian Institution has made with CBS Showtime. There's a good Washington Post story with links in the sidebar to earlier stories. Or read about it, back when the news broke, at the New York Times; at BoingBoing; at ALA; or at historians.org.

PS While hunting around for the Showtime story, we found the news that Nora Naranjo-Morse (1)(2)(3), a sculptor from Santa Clara, had won the design competition for an outdoor sculpture at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian. For a look at her work, we have her 1992 book Mud Woman : Poems from the Clay.