Evening view of the New Museum in New York: stacked grey volumes beside an angular wing with glowing windows.

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New building of the New Museum in New York opens after four years of construction

The new building of the New Museum, the museum of contemporary art in New York. It has opened after four years of construction. One question: why so 2016?

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The Demolition of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, 5 December 1931

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A Collection of Cats from World Culture by the English Artist Susan Herbert

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Hitchcock as the Embodiment of Everything Going to Plan

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Salvador Dalí and Velázquez's portrait of Philip IV at prayer in the Royal Monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial in 1964

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Sounds Splendid: In the City of Saint Peter

A small dark figure stands on a sandy shore before a dark sea under a vast cloudy sky in Friedrich's painting.

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Caspar David Friedrich painted “The Monk by the Sea” between 1808 and 1810

The Monk by the Sea. Caspar David Friedrich, 1808-1810.

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The orchestra of the Odeon in Athens is still paved with the same chequerboard marble as in AD 161

Church Slavonic manuscript fragment in black semi-uncial script on aged parchment, with a red initial letter on the first line. The text recounts Pharaoh's dream of seven cows.

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Page of an Old Russian manuscript telling of Pharaoh's dream of seven cows

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"Why do you think, Rozanov, that you have understood more of Egypt than all the Egyptologists?" "Because I am astonished"

"Why do you think, Rozanov, that you have understood more of Egypt than all the Egyptologists?" "Because I am astonished. And they, you see, are never astonished by anything."

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Wrestlers

Wrestlers. Fragment of the decoration of the church at Anzy-le-Duc, department of Saône-et-Loire, and fragment of the decoration of the Cathedral of Saint Demetrius in Vladimir