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HEARD MUSEUM NORTH celebrates twenty years of design and innovation by Native American artists with Mid-century Moderns: Native American Art in Scottsdale, through August 13. The exhibit features handbags, men and women's designer clothing, paintings, pottery, and jewelry created by native artists living and working in Scottsdale in the 1950s and 1960s. Cherokee fashion designer Lloyd Kiva New created lines of clothing, handbags and fabric that sold throughout the United States and Europe, and Navaho artists Kenneth Begay and Allen Kee created modern silver pieces that made the shop and gallery, the White Hogan, renowned for silver creations that incorporated traditional Navajo design.

Pedregal Festival Marketplace, 34505 N. Scottsdale Rd., Scottsdale, AZ 85262; 480.488.9817; www.heard.org.

AUTRY NATIONAL CENTER hosts the traveling exhibition, Totems to Turquoise: Native North American Jewelry Arts of the Northwest and Southwest, through September 4. The show features a stunning array of some five hundred pieces of contemporary and historic jewelry and artifacts that celebrate the beauty, power and symbolism of the magnificent tradition of Native American arts.

234 Museum Dr., Los Angeles, CA 90065; www.autrynationalcenter.org.

METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART presents Anglomania: Tradition and Transgression in British Fashion, an exhibition investigating the ideals, stereotypes and representations of Englishness by juxtaposing historical costume with late twentieth and early twenty-first century fashions. Anglomania, the craze for all things English, gripped Europe during the mid-to-late eighteenth century. But what began as an intellectual phenomenon became and has remained a matter of style. The exhibition ends September 4.

1000 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10028; 212.535.7710; www.metmuseum.org.

THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN presents Arctic Transformations: The Jewelry of Denise and Samuel Wallace, through July 30. Their jewelry reflects the stories and myths of Denise Wallace's Alaskan Native heritage. One hundred fifty pieces of individual jewelry as well as sixteen elaborate belts are on display. The exhibition was organized by the Anchorage Museum of History and Art, where it opened in 2005. Lois Sherr Dubin has written a major exposition on the artists in Arctic Transformation: The Jewelry of Denise and Samuel Wallace, published by Easton Studio Press/Theodore Dubin Foundation.

U.S. Custom House, One Bowling Green, New York, NY 10004; 212.514.3700.

THE TEXTILE MUSEUM continues its exhibition, Harpies, Mermaids, and Tulips: Embroidery of the Greek Islands and Epirus Region, through September 3. Focusing on the island societies in the Ionian and Aegean seas during the era of the Latin West and Ottoman East, the exhibition displays some seventy textiles created during the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries for bridal trousseaux and domestic life. These embroidered textiles, from bed tents and pillows to handkerchiefs and embroidered panels from women's clothing, attest to the power of these communities to assimilate Venetian and Ottoman influences into their own native folk traditions.

2320 'S' St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20008; 202.667.0441.

MARYHILL MUSEUM OF ART presents A People's legacy: Romanian Folk Life Through Dress, Textiles & Arts, through November 14. Despite a century of political turmoil, over ninety areas of distinct folk cultures still exist: emerging from close contact with invaders and neighbors such as the Saxons, Turks, Armenians, Bulgarians, Hungarians, and Ukrainians. The exhibition features traditional costumes, folk and sacred art from the museum's permanent collection, and objects from the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle Washington; The Folk Art Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico; and the Kent State University Museum, Kent, Ohio.

35 Maryhill Museum Dr., Goldendale, WA 98620; 509.773.3773; www.maryhillmuseum.org.

THE FIELD MUSEUM hosts Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs, through January 1, 2007. New and larger than the blockbuster King Tut's treasures that toured the world in 1977, this exhibit includes one hundred thirty objects from the tomb of Tutankhamun and other royal tombs, few seen in the previous exhibition and many have never before left Egypt. Also featured is in-depth film footage and pictures from National Geographic covering the story of his family and his time; the 18th dynasty, the pinnacle of Egyptian culture, wealth and power. Included is the golden diadem that circled Tutankhamun's head in life and death. Left to right, top to bottom: a viscera coffin, ankh, Tut's golden diadem, vase, scarab brooch, headrest, and broadcollar.

1400 Lake Shore Dr., Chicago, IL 60605; 312.665.7100; www.fieldmuseum.

THE MUSEUM AT THE FASHION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY presents Love and War: The Weaponized Woman, which explores the influence of armor and other military styles in fashion, from uniforms and armor to lingerie. Approximately eighty contemporary garments by leading designers will be featured in this exhibition, and sprit into four categories: The Weaponized Woman, The Hard Body, Officers, Not Gentlemen, and Skin2: Weapons of Seduction. Left to right: a soft armor suit by Christian Francis Roth, a deconstructed military jacket and skirt by Junya Watanabe, and an evening dress by Christian Dior. The exhibit will run from September 9 to December 16, 2006, Seventh Ave., 27th Street, New York, NY 10001; 212.217.7642; www.fitnyc.edu.

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