Museum memo

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

Eugene Boudin, through Aug. 5, FOTO: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918-1945, through Sept, 3, and States and Variations: Prints by Jasper Johns, through Oct. 28, National Gallery of Art, Washington. D.C.

Contemporary Links 5--Alexandre Arrechea: Scalpel and Cotton, San Diego Museum of Art, through Oct. 14.

Matthew Brannon: Where Were We, through Aug. 31, and Rudolf Stingel, through Oct. 14. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Frogs: A Chorus of Colors, through Sept. 9, and Mythic Creatures: Dragons, Unicorns & Mermaids, through Jan. 6, 2008, American Museum of Natural History, New York.

Cicadas and Emerald Ash Borers and Dinosaurs: Ancient Fossils, New Discoveries, The Field Museum Chicago both through Sept. 3.

Madam Butterfly: From Puccini to Miss Saigon, through July 29, and Homage to Picasso, Hockney's Blue Guitar, through Sept. 2, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Tex.

Dali and Film, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Oct. 14-Jan. 6. 2008.

Frank Stella: Painting into Architecture, though July 29, Impressionist and Early Modern Paintings: The Clark Brothers Collection, through Aug. 19, Neo Rauch at the Met, through Sept. 23, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

America's Camp: Images of Hope and Healing from the Children of 9/11, Aug. 18-Sept. 16, and Ephemeral Beauty: Al Parker and the American Women's Magazine, 1940-1960, through Oct. 27, Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, Mass.

Paul Mellon's Legacy: A Passion for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Conn., through July 29.

Dateline Israel: New Photography and Video Art, through Aug. 5, The Sculpture of Louise Nevelson: Constructing a Legend, through Sept. 16, The Jewish Museum, New York.

Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, through Aug. 10.

Fighting the Fires of Hate: America and the Nazi Book Burnings, National Yiddish Book Center, Amherst, Mass., through July 12.

Encompassing the Globe: Portugal and the World In the 16th and 17th Centuries, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., through Sept. 16.

Flight of Fancy: Artists Explore Man's Fascination with Flight, through Sept. 9, and How the West Is One: The Art of New Mexico, through Dec. 31, The Museum of Fine Arts New Mexico, Santa Fe.

Frank Lloyd Wright and the House Beautiful, Portland (Maine) Museum of Art, through Oct. 8.

Building Books: The Art of David Macaulay, The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, N.Y., through Sept. 2.

Street Level: Mark Bradford, William Cordova, and Robin Rhode, Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, N.C., through July 29.

Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs, Franklin Institute Science Museum, Philadelphia, Pa., through Sept. 30.

Making it New: The Art and Style of Sara and Gerald Murphy, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Mass., July 8-Nov. 11.

Gene Autry and the Twentieth-Century West: The Centennial Exhibition, 1907-2007, Autry National Center, Los Angeles, through Jan. 13, 2008.

Nan Kempner: American Chic, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (de Young), through Nov. 11.

Forging an American Identity: The Art of William Ranney, through Aug. 19, and Renoir Landscapes, 1865-1883, Oct. 4-Jan. 6, 2008, Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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