‘Its name tells you everything you really need to know: it’s big, it’s complex and it smashes things together.’

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

The artist’s gravestone at Highgate Cemetery was his last and most characteristic work

1913, a year of cultural, artistic and technological revolution that transformed the world

The underground architecture of Harry Weese

Trevor Paglen and the final frontier

The display of museum collections: a modest proposal

A brief history of deadly art

The hybrid genre of the film novelization

The strange allure of amulets

The UK's forgotten acoustic defence system

The Museum of Cryptozoology and its celebration of the unknown and the elusive

Michael Werner

Great buildings that were never built