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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.

Namikawa Sōsuke, Japanese, 1847–1910. "Bowl," ca. 1900. Enamel and silver. (The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore)

Creativity gone global

Edward Lycett (American, born England, 1833-1910). Faience Manufacturing Co. (1881-1892). "Vase," 1886-90. (Collection of Barrie and Deedee Wigmore)

Before Brooklyn was cool

The Chinese-American dream

Detail from Edward Burtynsky's "Rock of Ages #4, Abandoned Section, Adam-Pirie Quarry, Barre, Vermont, 1991." (See slide show for the complete photograph.) Digital chromogenic color print. (Photograph courtesy Howard Greenberg & Bryce Wolkowitz, New York / Nicholas Metivier, Toronto.)

Where skyscrapers come from

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K. Kotani (dates unknown), "The Modern Song (Modan bushi), 1930. (Detail.) (Exhibition organized and circulated by Art Services International, Alexandria, Va.)

Japan's art deco interlude

<P>"Star Strike" (Hal Finney & Brett Stutz, programmers). Mattel Intellivision, 1981.<P> (Intellivision Productions, Inc.)

When video games become multi-player art projects

Paul H. Landacre, "Amateurs," 1937. Wood engraving. (© Estate of Paul Landacre/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY)

When workers were heroes

Harry Warnecke and Gus Schoenbaechler, "Louis Armstrong," 1947. (National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Elsie M. Warnecke © 2012 Daily News, LP (New York Daily News))

Celebrity portraits from New York's first tabloid

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Rose Adélaïde Ducreux (1761-1802), "Portrait of the Artist" (detail). (Musée des beaux-arts, Rouen)

Female artists, before and after the deluge

Paul Gauguin, "Arearea no Varua ino (Words of the Devil, or Reclining Tahitian Women)," 1894. (Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen)

Paul Gauguin's Polynesian "paradise"

(Courtesy of Judith and Lawrence Schiller; Lawrence Schiller © Polaris Communications, Inc.)

Swimming with the stars

Gustave Le Gray (French, 1820–1882), "Cloudy Sky — The Mediterranean with Mount Agde," 1856–59. (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Gift of Charles W. Millard III in honor of Clifford S. Ackley/Photograph © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

Postcards from the dawn of photography

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A “memory box” made of embossed and painted paper containing eye miniature, ca. 1830. (Skier Collection)

The secret history of "lover's eyes"

Detail of snake walking stick. Unknown Maker, Massasauga. Minnesota, mid-19th century. (Hill Collection)

A folk art history, told through walking sticks

"Chicago and Northwestern Transportation Company Swing Bridge" (2011) (David Schalliol)

Can the city be saved?

Larry Salk, "Summer Cocktail Party with English Butler," 1961. (Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

Cocktail culture through the decades

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Detail from "Initial S: The Stoning of Saint Stephen, late 13th century." Creator: Master of Gerona (Italian, active about 1300). (The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Ms. Ludwig VI 6, fol. 193)

Gothic manuscripts at the Getty

"Flying Angel (2804)," 1983. (Courtesy of Glen Davies and Sandra Wolf)

Inside Howard Finster's "Paradise Garden"

From the cover of "Green Lama." (Rubin Museum of Art)

Comic books' undercover hero: Tibet

Allan Sekula, "Churn." From the series "Ship of Fools," 1999-2010. (Courtesy of the artist, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, and Galerie Michel Rein, Paris)

Documenting society's elemental ills

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Thorne Rooms caretaker Lindsey Mican Morgan adjusts tiny decorations in a miniature Victorian English drawing room. (The Art Institute of Chicago)

Festive, fairy-size holiday homes

Washing Machine model, 1871. Inventor: Alfred T. Sullivan. (Rothschild Patent Model Collection/Scherzi Photography)

Tiny instruments of American invention

"The Buccaneer Was a Picturesque Fellow," 1905. (Delaware Art Museum)

The illustrator who practically invented pirates

Mrs. Arthur Henry Paget (Mary Fiske Stevens, 1853-1919) dressed as Cleopatra, 1891. (New-York Historical Society)

Hot chicks of the Gilded Age?

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