Museum memo.

• Position: What's New? - Calendar

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

America in the Sixties & Marilyn Monroe, Pop International Galleries, New York, May 15-June 30.

New Orleans: A Sense of Place, New Orleans Museum of Art, May 10-Aug. 31.

Aerial Portraits of the American West: Photographs by John Shelton, San Diego (Calif.) Natural History Museum, May 11-Nov. 2.

Radiance from the Rain Forest: Featherwork in Ancient Peru, through Sept. 1, and Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy, May 7-Sept. 1, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Term Cotta Warriors: Guardians of China's First Emperor, Bowers Museum, Santa Ana, Calif., May 18-Oct. 12.

Yellow Mountain: China's Ever-Changing Landscape, Arthur M Sackler Gallery, Washington, D.C., May 31-Aug. 4.

Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956-1968, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Ga., June 7-Oct. 12.

Balancing the Lenses: Stereoviews of the Middle East, University of California Riverside/California Museum of Photography Basement Gallery, through July 12.

Aaron Douglas: African American Modernist, Smithsonian American Art Museum, May 9-Aug. 3.

Meditations of African Art: Color, Baltimore (Md.) Museum of Art, through Aug. 19.

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Max Ernst--The Illustrated Books, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., through Sept. 6.

From the Land of the Gods: Art of the Kathmandu Valley and Nepal in Black and White: Photographs by Kevin Bubriski, Rubin Museum of Art, New York, through Oct. 13.

The Horse, American Museum of Natural History, New...