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

Decorative arts from the world’s fairs

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

Explore a 19th-century Brooklyn pottery studio

Emma Mustich

Chasing the Chinese-American dream

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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.)

Vermont’s “inverted skyscrapers” — and their architects

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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

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The kitchen of an abandoned house in west Cork, from David Creedon's "Ghosts of the Faithful Departed." (David Creedon)

In pictures: Irish emigrants’ haunting homes

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

Video games as multi-player art projects

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

Depression-era prints that celebrate work

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(Photo: Michael J Leu)

What the “Mad Men” era was really like

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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

Emma Mustich

Walmart’s war on the American food system

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

Painting as Paris burned

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(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-189313p1.html'>Peter Zurek</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/Salon)

Hollywood’s real-life night at the museum

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

Paul Gauguin’s Polynesian “paradise”

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Salman Rushdie (Gustau Nacarino / Reuters)

Salman Rushdie fears nothing

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(AP/Harry Hamburg)

Blog proves the Onion is trusted news source

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

Swimming with the stars

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(MSNBC)

Susan G. Komen CEO: “This is not a political decision”

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Spike Walker, "Quinidine Crystals," 2006. Polarised light micrograph. (Spike Walker, Wellcome Images, London)

Illuminating the history of medicine

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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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Author Deek Diedricksen in his $100 disaster relief shelter, the "GottaGiddaWay." (Bruce Bettis/Reprinted with permission from Lyons Press)

A designer of perfect homes no one can live in

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In this Oct. 22, 2011 file photo, Penn State coach Joe Paterno stands on the field before his team's NCAA college football game against Northwestern, in Evanston, Ill. (AP/Jim Prisching)

Did getting fired kill Joe Paterno?

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(iStockphoto/jgroup)

Hospitals court the 1 percent — with lobster tails

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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”

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