Veronica Esposito

A new documentary about the groundbreaking artist uses her journals to illustrate a fearless voice who lived a unique life

In her column for this issue, Veronica Esposito explores Boontling, a language that has as its main purpose excluding outsiders, which gives it the deliciously Borgesian quality of encoding the history of the area into the language itself.

REVIEW: Swedish author Alvina Chamberland’s prose is relentlessly inventive

With an increase in US anti-trans legislation, this year’s Transgender Day of Visibility will see impactful art and a drive to validate a powerful community

Since its inception in 2009, Transgender Day of Visibility – which occurs every year on 31 March – has been a focus point for greater awareness of

A new exhibition at the Met looks at the practice of hiding portraits attached to other portraits and the many reasons artists chose to be secretive with their work

During the Renaissance in Europe, a curious genre of portraiture rose to prominence and thrived: that of the so-called hidden portrait.

The photographer-turned-painter specializes in images of Black female solitude, luxuriating in the importance of relaxing after a day of work

A new exhibition at the New-York Historical Society looks back on years of radical change in the city for better and worse

The buzzy coming-of-age film, about teens obsessed with a schlocky TV show in the 90s, makes for a haunting allegory