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Sight and Sound

The Wall Street Journal

January 24, 2026

PABLO PICASSO, emerging from a Spanish cave containing Paleolithic paintings, is said to have exclaimed: "In 15,000 years we have invented nothing!

- BY SARAH L. KAUFMAN

ARCH CEILING The fan vault of King's College Chapel, in Cambridge, England, built in 1512-15.

This story is from the January 24, 2026 edition of The Wall Street Journal.

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