Museum memo

USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), March, 2005

What's new in museums around the country? Among the most interesting exhibitions on view are:

Iraq and China: Ceramics, Trade, and Innovation, through April 24, and Asian Games: The Art of Contest, through May 15, both at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, D.C.

Salvador Dali, Philadelphia Museum of Art, through May 16.

Rembrandt's Late Religious Portraits, through May 1, and Andre Kertesz, through May 15, both at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Hudson River School: Masterworks from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Okla., through April 24.

Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640): The Drawings, through April 3, and From Filippo Lippi to Piero della Francesca, through May 1, both at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Tropical Butterflies Alive in Winter, American Museum of Natural History, New York, through May 30.

Classic Posters of the Belle Epoque, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami (Fla.), through April 3.

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Seasons of Life and Land, The Field Museum, Chicago, through May 8.

May Night: Willard Metcalf at Old Lyme, Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, Conn., May 1-Sept. 11.

William Hodges, 1744-1797: The Art of Exploration and Nobleness and Grandeur: Forging Historical Landscape in Britain, 1760-1850, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Conn., both through April 24.

Rico Puhlmann: A Fashion Legacy, 1955-1996, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, through April 1.

I Wanna Be Loved By You: Photographs of Marilyn Monroe from the Leon and Michaela Constantiner Collection, Brooklyn (N.Y.) Museum, through March 20.

Hero, Hawk, and Open Hand: American Indian Art of the Ancient Midwest and South, Saint Louis (Mo.) Art Museum, March 4-May 30.