The arts here and abroad—a compendium of exhibitions, symposiums, and lectures

Arizona

PHOENIX Phoenix Art Museum: "Passport to Europe: Six Centuries of Treasures from Museo de Arte de Ponce [Puerto Rico]"; to June 15.

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California

LOS ANGELES J. Paul Getty Museum: "Imagining Christ"; to July 27. * "Maria Sibylla Merian and Daughters: Women of Art and Science"; June 10 to August 31. * * "Ten Years in Focus: The Artist and the Camera"; to August 10.

MALIBU Getty Villa: "The Color of Life: Polychromy in Sculpture from Antiquity to the Present"; to June 23. * * "The Hope Hygieia: Restoring a Statue's History"; to September 8.

SAN DIEGO San Diego Museum of Art: "Georgia O'Keeffe and the Women of the Stieglitz Circle"; to September 28. *

San Diego Natural History Museum: "A Day in Pompeii"; to June 15. *

SAN FRANCISCO de Young Museum: "Women Impressionists: Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Eva Gonzales, Marie Bracquemond"; June 21 to September 21. *

* American Decorative Arts Forum of Northern California lecture: "Was Gustav Stickley a Modernist? New Views in Early Experimental Masterworks," by Joseph Cunningham, June 10. For information call 415-249-9234.

Legion of Honor: 'Highlights from the Israel Antiquities Authority: The Dead Sea Scrolls and 5,000 Years of Treasures"; to August 10.

Museum of Craft and Folk Art: "American Symbols: From Lady Liberty to the Stars and Stirpes"; to August 3.

SAN MARINO Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens: "This Side of Paradise: Body and Landscape in L.A. Photographs"; June 14 to September 15. *

SANTA ANA Bowers Museum: "Monkey King: A Journey to China"; June 15 to August 31. * "Terra Cotta Warriors: Guardians of China's First Emperor"; to October 12. *

Colorado

DENVER Denver Art Museum: "Amish and Mennonite Quilts from the Big Valley and Beyond"; to July 13.

Connecticut

GREENWICH Bruce Museum: "20th-Century American Prints from the Bruce Museum Collection"; to July 6. * "Reclaimed: Paintings from the Collection of Jacques Goudstikker"; to September 7. *

HARTFORD Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art: "Faith and Fortune: Five Centuries of European Masterworks"; to December 31. * "Making a Splash: American Beach Fashions, 1850-1920"; to July 13.

LITCHFIELD Litchfield Historical Society: "To Please Any Taste: Litchfield County Furniture and Furniture Makers, 1780-1830"; to November 26. *

NEW HAVEN Yale Center for British Art: "Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection"; June 10 to August 17. *

* "Joseph Wright of Derby in Liverpool";to August 31.*

Yale University Art Gallery: "From Any Angle: Photographs from the Collection of Doris Bry"; to September 7. * "Van Gogh's Cypresses . and The Starry Night: Visions of Saint-Remy"; June 15 to September 7.

OLD LYME Florence Griswold Museum: "Impressionist Giverny: American Painters in France, 1885-1915; Selections from the Terra Foundation for American Art"; to July 27. *

Delaware

DOVER Biggs Museum of American Art: "Delaware Silver"; to June 29.

WILMINGTON Delaware Art Museum: "This is War"; to August 10.

Hagley Museum and Library: "Give It Your Best! Workplace Posters in the United States"; to January 4, 2009. * "Ladies' Hand Fans: Designed for Utility, Grace, and Style"; to December 31.

District of Columbia

Corcoran Gallery of Art: "The American Evolution: A History through Art"; to July 27.

Folger Shakespeare Library: "'Now Thrive the Armorers': Arms and Armor in Shakespeare"; June 5 to September 9.

Freer Gallery of Art: "Freer and Whistler: Points of Contact"; to December 2009.

Arthur M. sackler Gallery: "Muraqqa': Imperial Mughal Albums from the Chester Beatty Library"; to August 3. * "Taking Shape: Ceramics in Southeast Asia"; ongoing. * "Tales of the Brush Continued; Chinese Paintings with Literary Themes"; to July 27. * "Yellow Mountain: China's Ever-Changing Landscape"; to August 24

Textile Museum: "Blue"; to September 18.

Woodrow Wilson House: "The Presidential Dish: Mrs. Woodrow Wilson and the White House China Room"; to August 4. *

Florida

BOCA RATON Boca Raton Museum of Art: "American Impressionism: Works from the Bank of American Collection"; to June 22.

MIAMI BEACH Wolfsonian--Florida International University: "Art and Design in the Modern Age: Selections from the Wolfsonian Collection"; ongoing.

WEST PALM BEACH Norton Museum of Art: "Alexander Calder Jewelry"; to June 15. * * "The Hunter Gifts"; to September 7.

WINTER PARK Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art: "Art Jewelry, Favrile Metalwork, and Precious Glass by Louis Comfort Tiffany"; ongoing. * "Quest of Beauty--Louis Comfort Tiffany's Life and Art"; to March 1, 2009.