Lucy Scholes Entwined for Life For decades, the painter Dorothy Hepworth and her partner Patricia Preece carried out an elaborate artistic deception. May 26, 2024
Kaya Genç Ruffians, Gamblers, Thieves, Outcasts Over more than two decades, the amateur historian Reşad Ekrem Koçu led an ever-expanding project to document Istanbul’s vanishing past. October 4, 2023
Ed Halter Queens of the Screen For a decade starting in the early 1960s, a private Los Angeles society called the Gay Girls Riding Club made delirious, elaborate drag parodies of Hollywood films. June 25, 2023
Nawal Arjini Look Up! In the original plan for their book Changing New York, Berenice Abbott and her partner, Elizabeth McCausland, refused to romanticize the “city of the future.” June 22, 2023
Adam Thirlwell House of Delft In a recreated eighteenth-century home in London’s East End, the ceramicist Simon Pettet and his partner Dennis Severs created a world both elegant and deliriously contemporary. May 25, 2023
Alizeh Kohari Flipping the Script in Lahore Joyland and the documentary Showgirls of Pakistan explore the boundaries of identity and desire in an oppressively performative society. April 9, 2023
Victoria Baena A Great Variety of Selves In a new play based on Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, Emma Corrin plays a young aristocrat who swaps milieus, costumes, countries, and genders. January 10, 2023
Spencer Lee-Lenfield Mysterious Displays of Will Nadine Hwang—a queer Chinese lawyer who joined the army, circulated in Paris salons, and survived Ravensbrück—never wrote a memoir, but her life itself became a work of art. January 4, 2023