New York city has a long history with LGBT rights and awareness. As far back as the 1920s, when a lesbian-themed play – God of Vengeance (1907, Sholem Asch) – opened on Broadway, the LGBT community has fought to make itself heard, find its place, and contribute to the city's culture and society. In 2011 same-sex marriage in New York became legal, and five years later Hillary Clinton became the first presidential nominee from any major party to march in the famous city Pride m

It's national selfie day – a total thing since as far back as 2014. Or so we think. As inhabitants of the social media world – living in a daily fog of hashtags, memes, and self-imagery – we have laid claim to the self-obsessed nature of picturing ourselves. But selfies, in essence, are not new. Some of the world's most arresting, most spell-binding selfies existed way before the internet did. Earlier this year the Saatchi gallery held an exhibition showcasing the evolution o

If you haven't yet visited the Lynette Yiadom-Boakye exhibition at the New Museum you have got to make it happen. It's a small show – warm and entirely enriching. Just head down there on your lunch break, or for half an hour after work – it will absolutely make your day. The exhibition is called Under-Song For A Cipher, a cipher being something secretive, kept on the down-low. Yiadom-Boakye paints a series of black, imagined figures – imagined because none of these people are