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The Art Institute of Chicago has received a $75 million donation for a new building to showcase modern art from the 19th and 20th centuries. The funds — which amount to the single largest naming gift ...

The blending of historic and contemporary is showcased beautifully at 295 Fifth Avenue in New York City, which features an addition borrowing from the original building's neo-classical design. Given ...

As one of the wonders of the world, the Egyptian pyramids are steeped in rich history and shrouded in mystery. Using their unparalleled resources to create structures on a scale that had never been ...

This article was originally published on Common Edge. "O beautiful, for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain, has there ever been another place on earth where so many people of wealth and power ...