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Topic: Five Minute Museum

Five-Minute Museum is a weekend art series that previews interesting exhibitions -- current or upcoming -- from across the country.

Image for Decorative arts from the world's fairs

Creativity gone global

Emma Mustich
Image for Explore a 19th-century Brooklyn pottery studio

Before Brooklyn was cool

Emma Mustich
Image for Chasing the Chinese-American dream

The Chinese-American dream

Emma Mustich
Image for Vermont's

Where skyscrapers come from

Emma Mustich
Image for Japan's art deco interlude

Japan's art deco interlude

Emma Mustich
Image for Video games as multi-player art projects

When video games become multi-player art projects

Emma Mustich
Image for Depression-era prints that celebrate work

When workers were heroes

Emma Mustich
Image for Celebrity portraits from New York's first tabloid

Celebrity portraits from New York's first tabloid

Emma Mustich
Image for Painting as Paris burned

Female artists, before and after the deluge

Emma Mustich
Image for Paul Gauguin's Polynesian

Paul Gauguin's Polynesian "paradise"

Emma Mustich
Image for Swimming with the stars

Swimming with the stars

Emma Mustich
Image for Postcards from the dawn of photography

Postcards from the dawn of photography

Emma Mustich
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The secret history of "lover's eyes"

Emma Mustich
Image for Fantastic folk art walking sticks

A folk art history, told through walking sticks

Emma Mustich
Image for Visions of post-industrial Milwaukee

Can the city be saved?

Emma Mustich
Image for Cocktail culture through the decades

Cocktail culture through the decades

Emma Mustich
Image for Gothic manuscripts at the Getty

Gothic manuscripts at the Getty

Emma Mustich
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Inside Howard Finster's "Paradise Garden"

Emma Mustich
Image for Comic books' undercover hero: Tibet

Comic books' undercover hero: Tibet

Emma Mustich
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Documenting society's elemental ills

Emma Mustich
Thorne rooms

Festive, fairy-size holiday homes

Emma Mustich
Washing machine

Tiny instruments of American invention

Emma Mustich
Howard Pyle

The illustrator who practically invented pirates

Emma Mustich
Paget

Hot chicks of the Gilded Age?

Emma Mustich

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