Museum Memo.

• Position: WHAT'S NEW? - Brief Article - Calendar

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

Matisse: The Fabric of Dream, His Art and His Textiles, through Sept. 25, and Vincent van Gogh: The Drawings, Oct. 18-Dec. 31, both at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Jungles, through Jan. 1, 2006, and Pompeii: Stories from an Eruption, Oct. 22-March 26, 2006, both at The Field Museum, Chicago.

Overhead/Underfoot: The Topographical Perspective in Photography, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, through Sept. 25.

Renoir's Women, Columbus (Ohio) Museum of Art, through Jan. 31, 2006.

Irving Penn: The Platinum Prints, through Oct. 2, and Winslow Homer, through Feb. 20, 2006, both at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

The Splendor of Ruins in French Landscape Painting, 1630-1800, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, through Oct. 16.

Poussin to Cezanne: French Drawings from the Pratt Collection, through Sept. 25, and Mavericks of Color Photography, through Nov. 27, both at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Small Masterpieces: Whistler Paintings from the 1880s, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., through Dec. 31, 2006.

The Dahesh Collection...