Museum memo

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

Sports of All Sorts, Jundt Art Museum, Gonzaga University Spokane, Wash., through March 10.

Modernism: Designing a New World, 1914-1939, March 17-July 29, Olga Hirshhorn Collects, through July 8, and Masterpieces: European Art from the Collection, through Sept. 30, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Sculpture and Memory, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, through May 6

Treasures of the Titans, through June 3, and Impressions of Tsavo, through July 7, The Field Museum, Chicago.

Jasper Johns: An Allegory of Painting, through April 29, Paris in Transition: Photographs, through May 6, and Modernity in Central Europe, 1918-1945, June 10-Sept. 3, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

The Temptations of Flora: Jan van Huysum (1682-1749), Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, through May 20.

East of Eden: Gardens in Asian Art, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, D.C., through May 13.

Jasper Johns' Green Angel: The Making of a Print, through March 18, and Walking Dreams: The Art of the Pre-Raphaelites from the Delaware Art Museum, May 19-July 29, San Diego Museum of Art.

Joan of Arc, Knights of Columbus Museum, New Haven, Conn., May 1-Sept. 3.

Ike Taiga and Tokuyama Gyokuran: Japanese Masters of the Brush, Philadelphia Museum of Art, May 1-July 22.

Ansel Adams: The Man Who Captured the Earth's Beauty, April 1-May 13, Myth and Reality: The Art of the Great Plains, April 1-Dec. 31, and Treasures from the Frederick Remington Art Museum, April 1-Dec. 31, Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, N. Y

Nan Kempner: American Chic, through April 29, and Venice and the Islamic World, 828-1797, March 27-July 8, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Dateline Israel: New Photography and Video Art, The Jewish Museum, New York, March 10-Aug. 5.

Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series, through March 25, Factory Work: Warhol, Wyeth, Basquiat, through April 8, and Harlem to Broadway: Black History on the Musical Stage, through March 25, Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Tex.

Mi Puerto Rico, Master Painters of the Island, The Newark (N.J.) Museum, through April 15.

Portraits & Equivalents: A Tribute to Herbert Quick, California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside, through April 14.

Temples and Tombs: Treasures of Egyptian Art from the British Art Museum, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, April 15-July 8.

Focus: Ralt Ziervogel, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (Tex.), through April 8.

Drama and Desire: Japanese Paintings from the Floating World, 1690-1850, Kimbell Art Museum, Ft. Worth, Tex., through April 29.

Articles of Beauty: Edo-period Paintings, Prints, Textiles, and Decorative Objects, through May 20, and Femme, femme, femme: Paintings of Women in French Society from Daumier to Picasso from the Museum of France, March 4-June 2, New Orleans Museum of Art.

The Modern West: American Landscapes, 1890-1950, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, March 4-June 3.

Howard Hodgkin: Paintings, 1992-2007, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Conn., through April 1.

Stars and Treasures: 75 Years of Collecting Theatre, New York Public Library, through May 5.

Tropical Butterflies: Afire in Winter, through May 28, and Gold, through Aug. 19, American Museum of Natural History, New York.

A Deaf Artist in Early America: The Worlds of John Brewster Jr., through March 25, and Vividly True to Nature: Harrison Bird Brown, 1831-1915, March 10-Sept. 9, Portland (Maine) Museum of Art.

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