Museum memo

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

Amorous Intrigues and Painterly Refinement: The Art of Frans Mieris, National Gallery of Art; Washington, D.C., through May 21.

Andy Warhol's Dream America. San Diego (Calif.) Museum of Art, June 17-Sept. 10.

David Hockney Portraits, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, June 11-Sept. 4.

Mary Poppins, The Art Museum of the University of Houston (Tex.), May 13-Aug. 5. Warriors of the Himalayas: Rediscovering the Arms and Armor of Tibet, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, through July 2.

Impressionist Camera: Pictorial Photography in Europe, 1888-1918, Saint Louis (Mo.) Art Museum, through May 31.

Andrea Zittel: Small Liberties, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, through June 18.

Something All Our Own: The Grant Hill Collection of African-American Art, Nasher Museum at Duke University, Durham, N.C., through July 16.

Toulouse-Lautrec and Friends at the Theatre, through May 14, and Villa America: American Moderns, 1900-1950, through June 4, both at McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Tex.

Beyond Brushwork: Symbolism in Chinese Painting, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., through Nov. 26.

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