At this year’s South by Southwest festival, Lady Gaga invited a performance artist to vomit on her, in a move that likely provoked some to question her artistic vision, if not her sanity. For others ...

“Runway shows are a festival of eccentricity—the audience and the show itself. But there is a safety to them as well. It’s a similar design process, and you know what’s going to happen. Sometimes I ...

Off a busy West London thoroughfare sits a former gentlemen’s club where Winston Churchill once stood under the Georgian portico, fingers flashing his V for victory. In an equally celebratory mood is ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Are chief executives getting more eccentric? It might seem so. From xenophobic rants on earnings calls to ...

MADALYN MURRAY O’HAIR, the angry atheist, may well have more religious fervor than anyone since Cotton Mather. Her fervor is aimed at making sure that reports of God’s death are not exaggerated.

Figurative sculptors commonly enliven their work either by achieving a stunning level of trompe l’oeil realism or by abstracting forms to capture their essences. Folk artist Albert Zahn–who made art ...