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The Shows go on at U.S. museums

For museumgoers, here are some notable exhibits this fall across the United States: CHICAGO "Henri Cartier-Bresson and the Art and Photography...

For museumgoers, here are some notable exhibits this fall across the United States:

CHICAGO

"Henri Cartier-Bresson and the Art and Photography of Paris" (through Jan. 4)

Perhaps no other photographer captured as many memorable images as Henri Cartier-Bresson. To mark the centenary of the legendary photographer's birth, the Art Institute of Chicago is drawing on its own collection to mount a show of Cartier-Bresson photographs as well as paintings, prints, drawings and photographs by artists active in Paris during the 1920s and '30s. Other works included in the show are those of artists Salvador Dali, Giorgio de Chirico, Henri Matisse, Piet Mondrian and Pablo Picasso. The city was the cultural capital of the world, and those were the decades — and artists — of Cartier-Bresson's artistic formation. Details: 312-443-3600 or www.artic.edu/aic.WASHINGTON, D.C.

"Pompeii and the Roman Villa: Art and Culture around the Bay of Naples" (Oct. 19-March 22)

The National Gallery of Art offers a comprehensive look at art in the vicinity of Mount Vesuvius during the first century B.C. Among the 150 examples of painting, mosaic, sculpture and decorative arts on display are some never previously seen in the United States. The exhibition also examines the impact that the first excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum, in the 18th century, had on subsequent art. 202-737-4215 or wwwnga.gov.

SAN FRANCISCO

"Maya Lin: Systematic Landscapes" (Oct. 25-Jan. 18)

It's been nearly 30 years since Lin became famous with her design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. This exhibition at the de Young Museum in San Francisco (in Golden Gate Park near the new California Academy of Sciences) brings together Lin's recent sculptures, drawings and installations. 415-750-3600 or www.deyoungmuseum.org.

LOS ANGELES

"Hearst the Collector"

(Nov. 9-Feb. 1)

It's been estimated that during the 1920s and '30s, William Randolph Hearst single-handedly accounted for a quarter of the world's art purchases. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents some 170 examples of the media baron's acquisitions, including European paintings, sculpture and more. 323-857-6000 or www.lacma.org.

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