Informant

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

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

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

When so much art is trumpeted as being ‘political’ why do so few artists enter politics?

How important is the truth when it comes to literary autobiography?

The recent boom in prediction markets has added a streak of clinical capitalism to the prophecy industry