Culture At Pageant’s second annual gala, experimental performance reigns supreme This year’s fundraising event for the artist-run space features footlong high heels, whipped cream-spewing bras, and live tattoos
Art Artist Julia Weist’s latest exhibition gives audiences the vantage of a private investigator Ahead of her solo presentation at NADA with Moskowitz Bayse gallery, Weist sits down with Document’s editor-in-chief to discuss surveillance data as artistic material
Art Clarissa Dalrymple and David Velasco imagine an art world built on human connection In conversation for Document’s Spring/Summer 2024 issue, the curator and critic recount the friendships, politics, and small graces of New York City’s cultural legacies
Music Maya Hawke and Kim Gordon dissect the poetics of commerce The multidisciplinary artists untangle lyric metaphors and pop cultural myths for Document’s Spring/Summer 2024 issue
Living among the City of the Dead in Colma, California For Document’s Fall/Winter 23, writer Daniel Gumbiner explores life, death, and industry in the state’s largest necropolis by Daniel Gumbiner Iggy Teller does Teller For Document’s Fall/Winter 2023 issue, Juergen Teller and Dovile Drizyte reimagine the artist’s iconic works in a portfolio with their baby, Iggy, as its star by Juergen Teller Resisting simulations of the self For Document’s Fall/Winter 2023 issue, McKenzie Wark grapples with society’s love for identity-making, imagining a future free from flags or labels by McKenzie Wark B-girls shoulder the history of breaking Document’s Fall/Winter 2023 issue profiles the women at the forefront of breakdancing as it makes its way to the Olympic floor by Ann Binlot Between mountains and sea, Brioni safeguards traditions of tailoring For its Fall/Winter 2023 issue, Document travels to Italy’s Abruzzo region where the atelier’s heritage collides with la dolce vita by Divya Bala In the New Hampshire wild, DJs Octo Octa and Eris Drew forage for the sound of home For Document’s Fall/Winter 2023 issue, McKenzie Wark is a houseguest of the dynamic pair, picking their brains on what it is to build a life... by McKenzie Wark Constance Debré on dirty freedoms For Document’s Fall/Winter 2023 issue, the novelist muses on love and power across the prison window’s glass by Constance Debré Moments of Respite: A portrait of North Africa’s queer migrant communities Photographer Laurence Ellis captures individuals living and dreaming on their own land for Document’s Fall/Winter 2023 issue by Abdellah Taïa Paul Sepuya holds a mirror up to the medium, in conversation with Ryan McNamara The photographer presents ‘Setups and In-Betweens’ for Document’s Fall/Winter 2023 issue, a portfolio of improvisational images by Evan Moffitt Martine Gutierrez deconstructs the avatar, in conversation with Zackary Drucker For Document’s Fall/Winter 2023 issue, the artist shares ‘Child Interrupted,’ a portfolio positioning the self as invention by Morgan Becker Cherokee Jack takes to Mono Lake for contemplative adventure Photographer Cole Sprouse and stylist Michelle Cameron capture the activist against natural geometries, equipped with protean garments from the Moncler x Pharrell Williams collection by Megan Hullander The sacrament of the secondhand Amid the crowds of the kilo sale, Shahidha Bari bears witness to the perennial art of passing down and picking up by Shahidha Bari The erotic architecture of Fire Island, where flesh and fantasy meet Between the Pines and Cherry Grove rests a legacy of gay desire, treading nature and artifice off Long Island’s South Shore by Jack Parlett Chasing the mirage of the “future city” From Futurama to The Line, Mohamed Elshahed points to the failed promise of the smart metropolis, where yesterday’s dreams make up tomorrow’s nightmares by Mohamed Elshahed Epistolary Filth: The life and death of ‘J.D.s’ zine For Document’s Spring/Summer 2023 issue, Jesse Doris looks back on the transgressive queer digest, and the subculture it willed into existence by Jesse Dorris The thrills and perils of raw-dogging reality Untethered from drugs, apps, and shoes, Christina Catherine Martinez charts a journey of physical and psychological undress to Mexico’s only nude beach by Christina Catherine Martinez Uncovering the photographic archive of Allen Ginsberg For Document’s Spring/Summer 2023 issue, the Beat poet is recontextualized through his own lens, portraiting the likes of Iggy Pop, Gus Van Sant, William S.... by Megan Hullander On Treasure Beach, ceremonies of hospitality and hallucinogens draw a path to the self For Document’s Spring/Summer 2023 issue, literary savant Ira Silverberg looks back on psychologically-formative experiences along Jamaica’s coast by Ira Silverberg The seductive promise of finding home on the homepage For Document’s Spring/Summer 2023 issue, Oliver Brown dissects how physical reality defines social interaction, from escalators to web browsers and the metaverse by Oliver Bown A Return to the Land: Regenerative agricultural practices safeguard future fertility Photographer Laurence Ellis captures the farmers paving a new path toward sustainability for Document’s Spring/Summer 2023 issue by Peter Gleick Between rivers and histories, An-My Lê’s photographs interrogate the complex fictions of warfare For Document’s Spring/Summer 2023 issue, MoMA’s Roxana Marcoci curates a selection of lesser-known works from the artist’s complex oeuvre by Roxana Marcoci Between illusion and the studied art of the tease, strip clubs are the last bastion of the American Dream Rachel Rabbit White explores the strip club's enduring fantasy of social and sexual upward mobility, both on-stage and off by Rachel Rabbit White Chasing divinity in the Mojave Desert For the seeker, the mystic, the artist, the outlaw, the romantic idiot, the allure of the American West endures by Ken Layne Ariana Papademetropoulos warps archetypal ways of seeing with ghostly fantasies For Document’s Winter/Resort 2023 issue, the artist shares a portfolio of paintings that blur the boundary between mythology and reality by Donatien Grau In Pasco County, Florida—Nudist Capital, USA—the body politic is on fully display Way down upon the Suwannee River, purists and partiers clash over the movements founding doctrine by Craig Pittman In ‘Death of A,’ Kandis Williams invents recognition of the internal For Document’s Winter/Resort 2023 issue, the artist compiles stills from her stripped-down interpretation of Arthur Miller’s classic tragedy by David Levine Behind crumbling highways and ghost towns lies the mythological freedom of the American road Is the walkability-car divide another front in the so-called ‘culture wars’? Drew Zeiba explores the online proliferation of the new urbanist by Drew Zeiba Raw eggs, pink pills, and embodied identity: Online communities create their own proof in a vacuum of truth Radical Liberal Online Activists and Right Wing Bodybuilders represent two poles of the political spectrum—but they are are each a product of the waning of... by Joshua Citarella Anicka Yi’s paintings are living, autonomous creatures Following her 'ÄLñ§ñ' exhibition, the artist joins Hans-Ulrich Obrist to discuss why art and science should mingle by Megan Hullander Waajeed constructs Afrofuturist realms from the seed of Detroit techno The musician's latest album, 'Memoirs of Hi-Tech Jazz,' is an exploration of the technological funk and soul that defined his youth and the city's cultural... by DeForrest Brown, Jr. In ‘Whirlpool,’ Jim Goldberg examines the spirit of the small-town South For Document’s Winter/Resort 2023 issue, the photographer uncovers the nuance of the working-class life along Arkansas’s White River by Megan Hullander From El Paso to Harlem: Troy Montes-Michie explores the subversive history of the zoot suit For Document’s tenth anniversary, the artist joins independent curator Monique Long to expand on the lasting allure of the iconic ensemble by Monique Long Matthew Williams wants his clothing to have a life of its own For Document’s tenth anniversary, the Givenchy Creative Director shares the ways in which he navigates the science of fashion and how the cities he’s lived... by Hannah Ongley New York was killing me: Seeking community in the city of cultural saturation For Document’s tenth anniversary, Rahel Aima reflects on what New York gave to her, and why she left it by Rahel Aima Jimmy DeSana, an iconoclast even within the ’70s avant-garde, is finally entering mainstream consciousness Laurie Simmons and Drew Sawyer discuss the late artist’s AIDS-era collages in a portfolio for Document’s tenth anniversary by Megan Hullander Eileen Myles chronicles a people’s history of East River Park For Document’s tenth anniversary, the writer merges personal, political, and geological histories to document a city in flux by Eileen Myles Frédéric Lagrange finds faith in faces For Document’s tenth anniversary, the photographer presents the most memorable moments of his career in a series of portraits by Megan Hullander Nicolas Party warps familiar realities into an unsettling world of his own The Swiss artist discusses his otherworldly portfolio and paying homage to the rattlesnake in his painting of Joan Didion for Document’s Tenth Anniversary cover by Ann Binlot The art of cruising in the post-digital age From screens to streets: Drew Zeiba outlines the resurgence of anonymous sex in the city by Drew Zeiba Living at Xanadu: Ten writers muse on Joan Didion’s literary legacy Cynthia Zarin, Ira Silverberg, Fariha Róisín, and others reflect on the reach of the iconic American voice by Morgan Becker A war vocabulary: Displaced Ukrainians share fragmented stories of loss, trauma, and absurdity “In a time of war, beauty becomes dangerous. Beautiful things, people, relationships—nowadays they don’t exist to inspire. They exist to be annihilated.” by Ostap Slyvynsky Mapping a modern trans bohemia in the borough of the flesh From Greenpoint to Flatbush, McKenzie Wark outlines community on the margins of straight life by McKenzie Wark Slab City, California: The artistic outpost where outsiders find home Photographer Laurence Ellis captures creative community on the fringes for Document’s Winter 2021/Resort 2022 issue by Max Pearl Eric N. Mack reconsiders the dimensions of visual art For Document’s Winter 2021/Resort 2022 issue, the artist speaks on how he’s translating his South Bronx informed textile practice to the context of the Italian... by Monique Long New Cosmologies: Could reconsidering the Big Bang theory save us? Tao Lin takes a closer look at science’s creation stories, examining their implications for human culture at large by Tao Lin The alienation and fantasy of modern femininity Safy-Hallan Farah examines the performance of womanhood in the attention economy, with the Real Housewives as case study by Safy-Hallan Farah The myth of the lone creative genius From Steve Jobs to Albert Einstein, it’s an appealing notion that brilliant individuals are behind the world’s most significant creative breakthroughs. But is it true? by Cody Delistraty From ecological restoration to robot artists, technologists explore how machines could transform our relationship with nature In this portfolio for Document’s Summer/Pre-Fall 2021 edition, photographer Laurence Ellis investigates how emerging technologies might shape our planetary future by Camille Sojit Pejcha Dispatches from a nonbeliever Larissa Pham details her quest for the divine by Larissa Pham Rediscovering desire in a panopticon of virtual pleasures Dean Kissick prescribes a renaissance of sensualism to save us from our collective ennui by Dean Kissick
Living among the City of the Dead in Colma, California For Document’s Fall/Winter 23, writer Daniel Gumbiner explores life, death, and industry in the state’s largest necropolis by Daniel Gumbiner
Iggy Teller does Teller For Document’s Fall/Winter 2023 issue, Juergen Teller and Dovile Drizyte reimagine the artist’s iconic works in a portfolio with their baby, Iggy, as its star by Juergen Teller
Resisting simulations of the self For Document’s Fall/Winter 2023 issue, McKenzie Wark grapples with society’s love for identity-making, imagining a future free from flags or labels by McKenzie Wark
B-girls shoulder the history of breaking Document’s Fall/Winter 2023 issue profiles the women at the forefront of breakdancing as it makes its way to the Olympic floor by Ann Binlot
Between mountains and sea, Brioni safeguards traditions of tailoring For its Fall/Winter 2023 issue, Document travels to Italy’s Abruzzo region where the atelier’s heritage collides with la dolce vita by Divya Bala
In the New Hampshire wild, DJs Octo Octa and Eris Drew forage for the sound of home For Document’s Fall/Winter 2023 issue, McKenzie Wark is a houseguest of the dynamic pair, picking their brains on what it is to build a life... by McKenzie Wark
Constance Debré on dirty freedoms For Document’s Fall/Winter 2023 issue, the novelist muses on love and power across the prison window’s glass by Constance Debré
Moments of Respite: A portrait of North Africa’s queer migrant communities Photographer Laurence Ellis captures individuals living and dreaming on their own land for Document’s Fall/Winter 2023 issue by Abdellah Taïa
Paul Sepuya holds a mirror up to the medium, in conversation with Ryan McNamara The photographer presents ‘Setups and In-Betweens’ for Document’s Fall/Winter 2023 issue, a portfolio of improvisational images by Evan Moffitt
Martine Gutierrez deconstructs the avatar, in conversation with Zackary Drucker For Document’s Fall/Winter 2023 issue, the artist shares ‘Child Interrupted,’ a portfolio positioning the self as invention by Morgan Becker
Cherokee Jack takes to Mono Lake for contemplative adventure Photographer Cole Sprouse and stylist Michelle Cameron capture the activist against natural geometries, equipped with protean garments from the Moncler x Pharrell Williams collection by Megan Hullander
The sacrament of the secondhand Amid the crowds of the kilo sale, Shahidha Bari bears witness to the perennial art of passing down and picking up by Shahidha Bari
The erotic architecture of Fire Island, where flesh and fantasy meet Between the Pines and Cherry Grove rests a legacy of gay desire, treading nature and artifice off Long Island’s South Shore by Jack Parlett
Chasing the mirage of the “future city” From Futurama to The Line, Mohamed Elshahed points to the failed promise of the smart metropolis, where yesterday’s dreams make up tomorrow’s nightmares by Mohamed Elshahed
Epistolary Filth: The life and death of ‘J.D.s’ zine For Document’s Spring/Summer 2023 issue, Jesse Doris looks back on the transgressive queer digest, and the subculture it willed into existence by Jesse Dorris
The thrills and perils of raw-dogging reality Untethered from drugs, apps, and shoes, Christina Catherine Martinez charts a journey of physical and psychological undress to Mexico’s only nude beach by Christina Catherine Martinez
Uncovering the photographic archive of Allen Ginsberg For Document’s Spring/Summer 2023 issue, the Beat poet is recontextualized through his own lens, portraiting the likes of Iggy Pop, Gus Van Sant, William S.... by Megan Hullander
On Treasure Beach, ceremonies of hospitality and hallucinogens draw a path to the self For Document’s Spring/Summer 2023 issue, literary savant Ira Silverberg looks back on psychologically-formative experiences along Jamaica’s coast by Ira Silverberg
The seductive promise of finding home on the homepage For Document’s Spring/Summer 2023 issue, Oliver Brown dissects how physical reality defines social interaction, from escalators to web browsers and the metaverse by Oliver Bown
A Return to the Land: Regenerative agricultural practices safeguard future fertility Photographer Laurence Ellis captures the farmers paving a new path toward sustainability for Document’s Spring/Summer 2023 issue by Peter Gleick
Between rivers and histories, An-My Lê’s photographs interrogate the complex fictions of warfare For Document’s Spring/Summer 2023 issue, MoMA’s Roxana Marcoci curates a selection of lesser-known works from the artist’s complex oeuvre by Roxana Marcoci
Between illusion and the studied art of the tease, strip clubs are the last bastion of the American Dream Rachel Rabbit White explores the strip club's enduring fantasy of social and sexual upward mobility, both on-stage and off by Rachel Rabbit White
Chasing divinity in the Mojave Desert For the seeker, the mystic, the artist, the outlaw, the romantic idiot, the allure of the American West endures by Ken Layne
Ariana Papademetropoulos warps archetypal ways of seeing with ghostly fantasies For Document’s Winter/Resort 2023 issue, the artist shares a portfolio of paintings that blur the boundary between mythology and reality by Donatien Grau
In Pasco County, Florida—Nudist Capital, USA—the body politic is on fully display Way down upon the Suwannee River, purists and partiers clash over the movements founding doctrine by Craig Pittman
In ‘Death of A,’ Kandis Williams invents recognition of the internal For Document’s Winter/Resort 2023 issue, the artist compiles stills from her stripped-down interpretation of Arthur Miller’s classic tragedy by David Levine
Behind crumbling highways and ghost towns lies the mythological freedom of the American road Is the walkability-car divide another front in the so-called ‘culture wars’? Drew Zeiba explores the online proliferation of the new urbanist by Drew Zeiba
Raw eggs, pink pills, and embodied identity: Online communities create their own proof in a vacuum of truth Radical Liberal Online Activists and Right Wing Bodybuilders represent two poles of the political spectrum—but they are are each a product of the waning of... by Joshua Citarella
Anicka Yi’s paintings are living, autonomous creatures Following her 'ÄLñ§ñ' exhibition, the artist joins Hans-Ulrich Obrist to discuss why art and science should mingle by Megan Hullander
Waajeed constructs Afrofuturist realms from the seed of Detroit techno The musician's latest album, 'Memoirs of Hi-Tech Jazz,' is an exploration of the technological funk and soul that defined his youth and the city's cultural... by DeForrest Brown, Jr.
In ‘Whirlpool,’ Jim Goldberg examines the spirit of the small-town South For Document’s Winter/Resort 2023 issue, the photographer uncovers the nuance of the working-class life along Arkansas’s White River by Megan Hullander
From El Paso to Harlem: Troy Montes-Michie explores the subversive history of the zoot suit For Document’s tenth anniversary, the artist joins independent curator Monique Long to expand on the lasting allure of the iconic ensemble by Monique Long
Matthew Williams wants his clothing to have a life of its own For Document’s tenth anniversary, the Givenchy Creative Director shares the ways in which he navigates the science of fashion and how the cities he’s lived... by Hannah Ongley
New York was killing me: Seeking community in the city of cultural saturation For Document’s tenth anniversary, Rahel Aima reflects on what New York gave to her, and why she left it by Rahel Aima
Jimmy DeSana, an iconoclast even within the ’70s avant-garde, is finally entering mainstream consciousness Laurie Simmons and Drew Sawyer discuss the late artist’s AIDS-era collages in a portfolio for Document’s tenth anniversary by Megan Hullander
Eileen Myles chronicles a people’s history of East River Park For Document’s tenth anniversary, the writer merges personal, political, and geological histories to document a city in flux by Eileen Myles
Frédéric Lagrange finds faith in faces For Document’s tenth anniversary, the photographer presents the most memorable moments of his career in a series of portraits by Megan Hullander
Nicolas Party warps familiar realities into an unsettling world of his own The Swiss artist discusses his otherworldly portfolio and paying homage to the rattlesnake in his painting of Joan Didion for Document’s Tenth Anniversary cover by Ann Binlot
The art of cruising in the post-digital age From screens to streets: Drew Zeiba outlines the resurgence of anonymous sex in the city by Drew Zeiba
Living at Xanadu: Ten writers muse on Joan Didion’s literary legacy Cynthia Zarin, Ira Silverberg, Fariha Róisín, and others reflect on the reach of the iconic American voice by Morgan Becker
A war vocabulary: Displaced Ukrainians share fragmented stories of loss, trauma, and absurdity “In a time of war, beauty becomes dangerous. Beautiful things, people, relationships—nowadays they don’t exist to inspire. They exist to be annihilated.” by Ostap Slyvynsky
Mapping a modern trans bohemia in the borough of the flesh From Greenpoint to Flatbush, McKenzie Wark outlines community on the margins of straight life by McKenzie Wark
Slab City, California: The artistic outpost where outsiders find home Photographer Laurence Ellis captures creative community on the fringes for Document’s Winter 2021/Resort 2022 issue by Max Pearl
Eric N. Mack reconsiders the dimensions of visual art For Document’s Winter 2021/Resort 2022 issue, the artist speaks on how he’s translating his South Bronx informed textile practice to the context of the Italian... by Monique Long
New Cosmologies: Could reconsidering the Big Bang theory save us? Tao Lin takes a closer look at science’s creation stories, examining their implications for human culture at large by Tao Lin
The alienation and fantasy of modern femininity Safy-Hallan Farah examines the performance of womanhood in the attention economy, with the Real Housewives as case study by Safy-Hallan Farah
The myth of the lone creative genius From Steve Jobs to Albert Einstein, it’s an appealing notion that brilliant individuals are behind the world’s most significant creative breakthroughs. But is it true? by Cody Delistraty
From ecological restoration to robot artists, technologists explore how machines could transform our relationship with nature In this portfolio for Document’s Summer/Pre-Fall 2021 edition, photographer Laurence Ellis investigates how emerging technologies might shape our planetary future by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Rediscovering desire in a panopticon of virtual pleasures Dean Kissick prescribes a renaissance of sensualism to save us from our collective ennui by Dean Kissick