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 ...

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 ...

For most people, the world is just as it appears to be. When we observe a complex scene, we have a sense that we see things as they are, with full sharpness, color, and resolution. However, the ...