‘Its name tells you everything you really need to know: it’s big, it’s complex and it smashes things together.’
Author George Pendle on his biography of Jack Parsons, the scientist, mysticist and follower of Aleister Crowley, now dramatized on CBS
Josef Albers's secret symbol for the Manuscript society at Yale University
George Pendle looks at the artist's ambitious new body of work tackling the Vietnam War
1913, a year of cultural, artistic and technological revolution that transformed the world
The UK's forgotten acoustic defence system
Michael Werner
Great buildings that were never built
One man's crusade against 'woo-woo'
An updated style bible heralds the return of the preppy
Edgar Allan Poe, the disappearance of the 'Poe Toaster' and the best way to find a grave
Domestic and social dynamics within the parentless homestead in the films of John Hughes
Governors Island, New York, USA
Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA
The intertwining of business, finance, art and numerology
A new exhibition about New York’s underground earth works reveals a quasi-mythological mirror image of the city
A biography of George Plimpton and Frederick Seidel’s collected poems celebrate two suave writers
The art market, insider trading and judging greatness
apexart, New York, USA
When so much art is trumpeted as being ‘political’ why do so few artists enter politics?
