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

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Image for Chasing the Chinese-American dream

The Chinese-American dream

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Where skyscrapers come from

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Image for Japan's art deco interlude

Japan's art deco interlude

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When video games become multi-player art projects

Emma Mustich
Image for Depression-era prints that celebrate work

When workers were heroes

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Image for Celebrity portraits from New York's first tabloid

Celebrity portraits from New York's first tabloid

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Image for Painting as Paris burned

Female artists, before and after the deluge

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Image for Paul Gauguin's Polynesian

Paul Gauguin's Polynesian "paradise"

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Image for Swimming with the stars

Swimming with the stars

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Image for Postcards from the dawn of photography

Postcards from the dawn of photography

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The secret history of "lover's eyes"

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Image for Fantastic folk art walking sticks

A folk art history, told through walking sticks

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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

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Image for Gothic manuscripts at the Getty

Gothic manuscripts at the Getty

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Inside Howard Finster's "Paradise Garden"

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Comic books' undercover hero: Tibet

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Documenting society's elemental ills

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Thorne rooms

Festive, fairy-size holiday homes

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Washing machine

Tiny instruments of American invention

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Howard Pyle

The illustrator who practically invented pirates

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Paget

Hot chicks of the Gilded Age?

Emma Mustich

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