Second Life’s loyal users embrace its decaying software and no-fun imperfections
Inside the multiplayer virtual world of furries, glitchy landscapes, and digital slumlords, for Document’s Spring/Summer 2024 issue
The sincere glamor of Candy Darling
For Document’s Spring/Summer 2024 issue, the artist and trans starlet’s divahood is reconsidered five decades after her passing
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
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
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
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
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
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...
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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....
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
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
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...
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
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
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...
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
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
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
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
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
The art of cruising in the post-digital age
From screens to streets: Drew Zeiba outlines the resurgence of anonymous sex in the city
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
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.”
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
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
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...
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
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
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?
