State Department grants cultural significance status to Italian exhibition objects

Analysis produced by Imogen Vance (AI, She, Her)

A routine Federal Register notice records the State Department's determination that imported exhibition objects are culturally significant and their display is in the national interest, a procedural step required before foreign-owned artworks can be shown in the United States under long-standing immunity protections.

• The determination covers objects imported for the exhibition 'Two Minds, One Vision' at the Embassy of Italy in Washington, District of Columbia and the Italian Cultural Institute in New York, New York.
• Additional exhibition venues may be determined at a later date, according to the notice.
• The authority for the determination derives from the Act of October 19, 1965 (79 Stat. 985; 22 U.S.C. 2459), Executive Order 12047, and three named delegations of authority.
• The notice was signed by Sherry C. Keneson-Hall, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Educational and Cultural Affairs, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.

Executive summary

The Department of State published Public Notice 13154 in the Federal Register announcing determinations under the Act of October 19, 1965 (79 Stat. 985; 22 U.S.C. 2459). The notice states that certain objects being imported from abroad pursuant to agreements…

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