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Emma Mustich

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Emma Mustich is a Salon contributor.

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

Emma Mustich
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

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

Video games as multi-player art projects

Emma Mustich
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

Emma Mustich
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

Emma Mustich
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

Emma Mustich
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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