Museum memo

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

No Limits, Just Edges: Jackson Pollock, Paintings on Paper, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, through Sept. 29.

Jackson Pollock, Beneath the Surface: A Tribute to Kirk Varnedoe '67, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Mass., through Oct. 1.

Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., through Sept. 17.

Cheyenne Visions, through July 31, and Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs, through Jan. 1, 2007, both at The Field Museum, Chicago.

Off the Pedestal: New Women in the Art of Homer, Chase, and Sargent, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Tex., July 26-Oct. 15.

Girodet: Romantic Rebel, through Aug. 27, and Image World: A Photographic Tribute to Susan Sontag, through Aug. 31, both at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Louis Comfort Tiffany, Saint Louis (Me.) Art Museum, through Oct. 29.

The Print, the Pear, and the Prostitute: Art, Politics, and Society in 19th-Century France, Mead Art Museum at Amherst (Mass.) College, through Aug. 20.

Paris and the Countryside: Modern Life in 19th-Century France, Portland (Maine) Museum of Art, through Oct. 15.

Frederick Remington and the American Civil War: A Ghost Story, Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, Mass., through Oct. 29.

Transparent Reflections: Richard Pousette-Dart, Works on Paper, 1940-1992, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, through Sept. 17.

Anglo Mania: Tradition and Transgression in British Fashion, The Costume Institute, New York, through Sept. 4.

Max Lieberman: From Realism to Impressionism, The Jewish Museum, New York, through July 30.

Andrew Wyeth in Context, through July 16, and In Pursuit of Genius: Jean-Antoine Houdon and the Sculpted Portraits of Benjamin Franklin, through July 30, both at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Tam Van Tram: Psychonaut, The Art Museum of the University of Houston, through Aug. 5.

Matisse: Jazz, Baltimore (Md.) Museum of Art, through Aug. 27.

Gustave Courbet and the Modern Landscape, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, through Sept. 10.

Winslow Homer: American Illustrator, San Diego Museum of Art, through Sept. 3.

Grant Wood's Studio: Birthplace of American Gothic, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., through July 16.

Another Modernity: Works on Paper by Uche Okeke, The Newark (N.J.) Museum, through July 20.

Vik Muniz: Reflex, Contemporary Art Museum at the University of South Florida, Tampa, through Oct. 8.

Napoleon on the Nile: Soldiers, Artists, and the Rediscovery of Egypt, Dahesh Museum of Art, New York, through Sept. 3.

A Northwest Summer: Richard Fuller and American Art Deco, Seattle (Wash.) Art Museum, through Sept. 10.

Facing East: Portraiture Across Asia, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, D.C., through Sept. 4.

American Etchers Abroad, 1880-1939, Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, Pa., through Sept. 4.

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