Music ‘Surviving the Dream’ with FIDLAR Document joined the indie rock band LA’s Balboa Recording Studio ahead of the release of their fourth album to talk about staying punk and growing...
Fashion Brioni’s La Donna explores new ground The Italian heritage house mixes embellishment and craftsmanship in its Spring / Summer collection
Art Experimental pop duo NEW YORK’s ‘rapstar*’ maintains an artful anonymity Following the release of their sophomore album, Gretchen Lawrence and Coumba Samba reflect on art, friendship, and their lo-fi influences
Art Maya Man and Sotce usher in a new generation of internet artists The pair sits down with Document to discuss their creative processes amidst the ever-changing climate of internet art
Above the Fold ‘Surviving the Dream’ with FIDLAR ...music. Zac: In Hawai’i, if you’re not outdoors, you’re sorta doing it wrong. I didn’t have TV growing up in Hawai’i, so the only way... by Zoey Greenwald Above the Fold Brioni’s La Donna explores new ground Brioni, under the direction of creative director Norman Stumpfl, presented its latest vision for womenswear on Wednesday in Milan. A project that first began as... by Colin Boyle Above the Fold Experimental pop duo NEW YORK’s ‘rapstar*’ maintains an artful anonymity Fate threw artists Coumba Samba and Gretchen Lawrence together as the roommates (and eventual best friends) who would come to form experimental music duo NEW... by Zoey Greenwald Above the Fold Maya Man and Sotce usher in a new generation of internet artists ...in the murky ethics of AI and infinite social media feeds, a fresh crop of internet artists are embracing these new technologies and mediums as... by Sofi Cisneros Above the Fold Darryl Bell brought his Midwestern barbecue heritage to Robert Glasper’s The Black Radio Experience music festival ...greens dish. Maya: The potato salad is crazy, I must say. Having the actual chopped boiled egg-aioli combination is like eggs two ways, all smothering... by Maya Kotomori Above the Fold Mark Armijo McKnight’s ‘Decreation’ undoes the self ...his self. Not to deconstruct, but to decreate, to eclipse the ego with compassion, per Weil. The photos depict embracing nude bodies among desolate desertscapes,... by Drew Sawyer Above the Fold The Shoptimist Speaks: Mati Hays of House of Iconica ...led the charge on reconstructing gowns for the Met in collaboration with fellow designer and friend Conner Ives, but look no further than the New... by Maya Kotomori Above the Fold August Thompson’s ‘Anyone’s Ghost’ thrums with tenderness and tension It is a hot American summer in the early 2000s. Theron, the protagonist of August Thompson’s debut novel, Anyone’s Ghost, just touched down in New... by Regina Rosenfeld Above the Fold Whole Festival 2024 through the eyes and lens of Spyros Rennt Take queers, thousands of them; gather them in an idyllic location that combines nature and huge industrial sculptures during a hot summer weekend; add to... by Spyros Rennt Above the Fold Inside Pete Rock’s musical dictionary ...work with? Pete: How it started with Common was through a friend of mine named Kareem who was playing some of my beats for him.... by Maya Kotomori Above the Fold Poet Precious Okoyomon and artist Olivia McKayla Ross are using time as a creative medium ...shows at London’s ICA and Zurich’s LUMA Foundation, Okoyomon worked on a wide range of projects about community, such as culinary art project Spiral Theory... by Zoey Greenwald Above the Fold Fine Print: ‘The weirder and freakier the better’ ...cover and still want to cover. So we went to Substack, which has been an incredibly freeing experience. Layla: Doing things completely on our own... by Drew Zeiba Above the Fold Enrique Garcia exposes the serpentine mechanics of contemporary life ...common in the region, immigrant workers building The Line report abusive and inhumane working conditions. This ungodly project betrays the simplicity of its name through... by Gaby Cepeda Above the Fold Audrey Nuna rediscovers freedom on the stage ...Comic Sans / Overused for that paper by the gram,” she slant-rhymes in “Comic Sans.” In “damn Right” Nuna muses, “Guess I’m supposed to be... by Drew Zeiba Above the Fold Function is unifying NYC’s queer nightlife scene, one fête at a time ...techno. We felt there was a new expression that was ready to debut. George: Andrew and I had different tastes in music coming into our... by Adnan Qiblawi Above the Fold Jonathan Lethem’s ‘Cellophane Bricks’ collides art writing with narrative imagination ...literary exploits, including completing Donald Carpenter’s final, unfinished novel Fridays at Enrico’s and editing The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick, a massive compilation of the... by Karim Kazemi Above the Fold Lily Burgess and Lauren Massie’s ‘A Vehement Flame’ is a photographic manifestation of love’s unpredictability ...here in the city and my dad and my stepmom are just very free-willed and we don’t hold much back. They gave me a lot... by Sofi Cisneros Above the Fold The Watermill Center’s annual summer benefit fused dance and artistic experimentation ...Western Union research facility which Wilson acquired in 1989 and converted to fulfill his vision for an incubator for emerging artists. The benefit also celebrated... by Sofi Cisneros Above the Fold The Shoptimist: Myths, markets, and the business model of hype ...Short Stories. But the overall gonzo shopping experience was not unique to Wang. The box-truck with limited stock and limited locations was merely the latest... by Maya Kotomori Above the Fold Fine Print: The crónica as daily epic ...I read all 742 pages of Too Much of Life, the complete collection of her columns, primarily from the Saturday edition of the newspaper Jornal... by Drew Zeiba Above the Fold ‘DEATHWORK’ is Kamixlo’s ode to the angels of noise Kamixlo’s latest album DEATHWORK begins with the canonical sounds of the afterlife: delicate angel whispers, heavenly bell chimes, and layers of swelling, utopian reverberations. This... by Sofi Cisneros Above the Fold Roving literary event Casual Encounterz prioritizes the pen over the persona ...City, London, and beyond. Montez Press Radio’s Canal Street second-floor walkup was a fitting setting for the second of three recent New York Casual Encounterz.... by Zoey Greenwald Above the Fold ‘National Anthem’ is a portal into the beauty of queer rural America ...surprisingly sober coming-of-age story that explores the ambivalence of queer rural life. The film follows Dylan, a young laborer in New Mexico who finds work... by Olivia Treynor Above the Fold The end of cloud computing ...hard to hide completely. The technology gets incredibly hot—requiring loud, constant cooling. So, AC drones 24/7 to keep the mostly unpopulated 290,000 square feet of... by Will Allstetter Above the Fold Joshua Serafin’s ‘VOID’ mines the elemental, ancestral, and transmigratory experience of their ancestry ...had. It mourns for that life. Because it’s a new time, a new life, you don’t remember the past because you are living in a... by Sam Ozer Above the Fold Benjamin Fredrickson’s ‘Wedgies’ turn schoolyard antics into ass-up uncanniness Document joins the New York-based artist for a sweaty rooftop shoot ahead of the release of his latest photo book... by Minh Le Above the Fold Best in show: Couture Week Fall 2024 ...comfy couch in New York’s Greenwich Village…and also from a luxuriously oversized beach chair while seaside in Massachusetts. Is that how one is supposed to... by Katharine K. Zarrella Above the Fold For five decades, Mira Schor has blended concept and image ...King in New York and this exhibition at the Bourse de Commerce in Paris, you’ve been showing work from the ’70s on. There’s also new... by Drew Zeiba Above the Fold Wedding veils, pan flutes, and the perfect day for a picnic ...Rock. Pre-production involved trading a gamut of visual references with Weir—the British soft-(and not so soft-)core photographer David Hamilton; the 1967 Swedish film Elvira Madigan;... by Elroy Rosenberg Above the Fold Ladyland Festival is Pride in a musical microcosm In its sixth year, Ladyfag’s Ladyland Festival returned for two nights over New York City’s Pride weekend. Across three stages under the Kosciuszko Bridge in... by Katie Rex Above the Fold Larry Gus’s ‘Kerkis (Judas Tree)’ is playing games ...rather than the mysterious room full of computers, watching Gus sing what feels like an ode to the digital plant on his computer screen, though... by Maya Kotomori Above the Fold Best in show: Men’s Spring/Summer 2025 and Women’s Resort Fashion Week—Paris ...why the empowering thing is kind of like—it has superpowers!” Inspired by superheroes, Johansson’s latest presentation was an elevated embodiment of the youthful nostalgia that... by Maya Kotomori Above the Fold Steven Cuffie’s relational image-making The late Baltimore-based photographer Steven Cuffie’s personal archive had been left untouched for years when his children Marcus and Morgan Cuffie began digging through his... by Drew Zeiba Above the Fold Is a socialite just a scammer who succeeded? ...a search for one such missing socialite, Hermia Druitt: a once-prominent Black artist and aesthete of the early 20th century who has been forgotten—or maybe... by Harron Walker Above the Fold In ‘Queendom,’ authenticity is resistance ...has future work with Galdanova on the horizon, including a performance in Venice and plans to make a film in the vein of protest for... by Katie Rex Above the Fold Fine Print: Poetry by any means necessary ...became fragments, fragments unspooled with images, images echoed between speakers, their phrases looping and enlarging, slowly revealing new narratives, new turns. The eight speakers (I... by Drew Zeiba Above the Fold Best in show: Men’s Spring/Summer 2025 and Women’s Resort Fashion Week—Milan ...grass greens and more classic rich navy blues. These exaggerated proportions complemented color-blocked lug-sole sneakers that combined colors like printer-ink cyan and blood red and... by Maya Kotomori Above the Fold Even undead, Joan Didion won’t back down ...is that? Admit it—were you phoning it in at The New Yorker? Joan: I was not phoning it in at The New Yorker. When I... by Geoffrey Mak Above the Fold The Shoptimist: It ain’t the same now ...end result is a completely new style of music that didn’t come from the invention of a new technology, but the innovation of a new... by Maya Kotomori Above the Fold Moncler Genius announces immersive new project for Shanghai Fashion Week ...Shanghai Fashion Week on October 19th. Started in 2018, Moncler Genius has invented a new platform for fashion collaboration—bringing in leading creatives like Jay-Z and... by Document Journal Above the Fold Ben Werther asks if LARPing is the new readymade ...as they suddenly have footnotes. Can LARPing be the new readymade? For Document, Ben Werther asks this and the many more questions that tumble out... by Morgan Meier Above the Fold Montreal-based label Skip Fame turns a former bank building into a ghostly performance space ...a total work of art by doing the most with the least. “We selected from every piece that I had—archives, samples, newer designs—and freestyled on... by Drew Zeiba Above the Fold In the experimental play ‘4,000 Dollars,’ the streets of New York City are a fiscal fight club ...ale, a lemonade, and one hot tea with lemon (costs unknown plus the six dollars from earlier), Document enters the ring with Pettus and Bland... by Maya Kotomori At Large Lilly Wachowski’s manifesto on New Mythologies ...so long—all the blurry and fragmented, hidden pieces—were out in the open. It allowed me to see my complete self in my work more clearly... by Lilly Wachowski Above the Fold Funto Omojola’s cosmological reckonings ...see. In this my whole hole whole hole this still little me me me—an exhibition at A.I.R. Gallery by the New York-based artist Funto Omojola—bodies... by Drew Zeiba Above the Fold Bela Borsodi’s ‘Birth Life Death’ invents new dynamics for inanimate objects ...Borsodi reflects on the origins of his latest exhibition with Document’s Editor-in-Chief Nick Vogelson. Left: Physiology, Pathology. Right: Trinity. Nick Vogelson: Your show is called... by Nick Vogelson Above the Fold Jennifer Rochlin and Jennifer Guidi keep each other curious ...a party is a casual way for people to draw on it versus someone like, ‘Oh, come to my studio, come draw on my work.’... by Drew Zeiba Above the Fold Seeing the unseen in the work of Vivian Maier ...Anne Morin, Laurent Claquin. The event was the latest from Kering’s Women In Motion initiative—the fashion group’s program to “raise awareness of the underrepresentation of... by Document Journal Above the Fold Dominic Leong knows aesthetics are politics ...architecture is an aesthetic medium that has the power to give presence to different communities.” Drew: Does this thinking about the body or bodies come... by Drew Zeiba Above the Fold Drew Ducote’s ‘Rednecks with Paychecks’ showcases the torque of Texas’s underground motorist community ...latest in a series of photographic investigations Ducote has made into the hidden cultures of his native Texas: one examining the refinery towns of Texas’s... by Elroy Rosenberg
Above the Fold ‘Surviving the Dream’ with FIDLAR ...music. Zac: In Hawai’i, if you’re not outdoors, you’re sorta doing it wrong. I didn’t have TV growing up in Hawai’i, so the only way... by Zoey Greenwald
Above the Fold Brioni’s La Donna explores new ground Brioni, under the direction of creative director Norman Stumpfl, presented its latest vision for womenswear on Wednesday in Milan. A project that first began as... by Colin Boyle
Above the Fold Experimental pop duo NEW YORK’s ‘rapstar*’ maintains an artful anonymity Fate threw artists Coumba Samba and Gretchen Lawrence together as the roommates (and eventual best friends) who would come to form experimental music duo NEW... by Zoey Greenwald
Above the Fold Maya Man and Sotce usher in a new generation of internet artists ...in the murky ethics of AI and infinite social media feeds, a fresh crop of internet artists are embracing these new technologies and mediums as... by Sofi Cisneros
Above the Fold Darryl Bell brought his Midwestern barbecue heritage to Robert Glasper’s The Black Radio Experience music festival ...greens dish. Maya: The potato salad is crazy, I must say. Having the actual chopped boiled egg-aioli combination is like eggs two ways, all smothering... by Maya Kotomori
Above the Fold Mark Armijo McKnight’s ‘Decreation’ undoes the self ...his self. Not to deconstruct, but to decreate, to eclipse the ego with compassion, per Weil. The photos depict embracing nude bodies among desolate desertscapes,... by Drew Sawyer
Above the Fold The Shoptimist Speaks: Mati Hays of House of Iconica ...led the charge on reconstructing gowns for the Met in collaboration with fellow designer and friend Conner Ives, but look no further than the New... by Maya Kotomori
Above the Fold August Thompson’s ‘Anyone’s Ghost’ thrums with tenderness and tension It is a hot American summer in the early 2000s. Theron, the protagonist of August Thompson’s debut novel, Anyone’s Ghost, just touched down in New... by Regina Rosenfeld
Above the Fold Whole Festival 2024 through the eyes and lens of Spyros Rennt Take queers, thousands of them; gather them in an idyllic location that combines nature and huge industrial sculptures during a hot summer weekend; add to... by Spyros Rennt
Above the Fold Inside Pete Rock’s musical dictionary ...work with? Pete: How it started with Common was through a friend of mine named Kareem who was playing some of my beats for him.... by Maya Kotomori
Above the Fold Poet Precious Okoyomon and artist Olivia McKayla Ross are using time as a creative medium ...shows at London’s ICA and Zurich’s LUMA Foundation, Okoyomon worked on a wide range of projects about community, such as culinary art project Spiral Theory... by Zoey Greenwald
Above the Fold Fine Print: ‘The weirder and freakier the better’ ...cover and still want to cover. So we went to Substack, which has been an incredibly freeing experience. Layla: Doing things completely on our own... by Drew Zeiba
Above the Fold Enrique Garcia exposes the serpentine mechanics of contemporary life ...common in the region, immigrant workers building The Line report abusive and inhumane working conditions. This ungodly project betrays the simplicity of its name through... by Gaby Cepeda
Above the Fold Audrey Nuna rediscovers freedom on the stage ...Comic Sans / Overused for that paper by the gram,” she slant-rhymes in “Comic Sans.” In “damn Right” Nuna muses, “Guess I’m supposed to be... by Drew Zeiba
Above the Fold Function is unifying NYC’s queer nightlife scene, one fête at a time ...techno. We felt there was a new expression that was ready to debut. George: Andrew and I had different tastes in music coming into our... by Adnan Qiblawi
Above the Fold Jonathan Lethem’s ‘Cellophane Bricks’ collides art writing with narrative imagination ...literary exploits, including completing Donald Carpenter’s final, unfinished novel Fridays at Enrico’s and editing The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick, a massive compilation of the... by Karim Kazemi
Above the Fold Lily Burgess and Lauren Massie’s ‘A Vehement Flame’ is a photographic manifestation of love’s unpredictability ...here in the city and my dad and my stepmom are just very free-willed and we don’t hold much back. They gave me a lot... by Sofi Cisneros
Above the Fold The Watermill Center’s annual summer benefit fused dance and artistic experimentation ...Western Union research facility which Wilson acquired in 1989 and converted to fulfill his vision for an incubator for emerging artists. The benefit also celebrated... by Sofi Cisneros
Above the Fold The Shoptimist: Myths, markets, and the business model of hype ...Short Stories. But the overall gonzo shopping experience was not unique to Wang. The box-truck with limited stock and limited locations was merely the latest... by Maya Kotomori
Above the Fold Fine Print: The crónica as daily epic ...I read all 742 pages of Too Much of Life, the complete collection of her columns, primarily from the Saturday edition of the newspaper Jornal... by Drew Zeiba
Above the Fold ‘DEATHWORK’ is Kamixlo’s ode to the angels of noise Kamixlo’s latest album DEATHWORK begins with the canonical sounds of the afterlife: delicate angel whispers, heavenly bell chimes, and layers of swelling, utopian reverberations. This... by Sofi Cisneros
Above the Fold Roving literary event Casual Encounterz prioritizes the pen over the persona ...City, London, and beyond. Montez Press Radio’s Canal Street second-floor walkup was a fitting setting for the second of three recent New York Casual Encounterz.... by Zoey Greenwald
Above the Fold ‘National Anthem’ is a portal into the beauty of queer rural America ...surprisingly sober coming-of-age story that explores the ambivalence of queer rural life. The film follows Dylan, a young laborer in New Mexico who finds work... by Olivia Treynor
Above the Fold The end of cloud computing ...hard to hide completely. The technology gets incredibly hot—requiring loud, constant cooling. So, AC drones 24/7 to keep the mostly unpopulated 290,000 square feet of... by Will Allstetter
Above the Fold Joshua Serafin’s ‘VOID’ mines the elemental, ancestral, and transmigratory experience of their ancestry ...had. It mourns for that life. Because it’s a new time, a new life, you don’t remember the past because you are living in a... by Sam Ozer
Above the Fold Benjamin Fredrickson’s ‘Wedgies’ turn schoolyard antics into ass-up uncanniness Document joins the New York-based artist for a sweaty rooftop shoot ahead of the release of his latest photo book... by Minh Le
Above the Fold Best in show: Couture Week Fall 2024 ...comfy couch in New York’s Greenwich Village…and also from a luxuriously oversized beach chair while seaside in Massachusetts. Is that how one is supposed to... by Katharine K. Zarrella
Above the Fold For five decades, Mira Schor has blended concept and image ...King in New York and this exhibition at the Bourse de Commerce in Paris, you’ve been showing work from the ’70s on. There’s also new... by Drew Zeiba
Above the Fold Wedding veils, pan flutes, and the perfect day for a picnic ...Rock. Pre-production involved trading a gamut of visual references with Weir—the British soft-(and not so soft-)core photographer David Hamilton; the 1967 Swedish film Elvira Madigan;... by Elroy Rosenberg
Above the Fold Ladyland Festival is Pride in a musical microcosm In its sixth year, Ladyfag’s Ladyland Festival returned for two nights over New York City’s Pride weekend. Across three stages under the Kosciuszko Bridge in... by Katie Rex
Above the Fold Larry Gus’s ‘Kerkis (Judas Tree)’ is playing games ...rather than the mysterious room full of computers, watching Gus sing what feels like an ode to the digital plant on his computer screen, though... by Maya Kotomori
Above the Fold Best in show: Men’s Spring/Summer 2025 and Women’s Resort Fashion Week—Paris ...why the empowering thing is kind of like—it has superpowers!” Inspired by superheroes, Johansson’s latest presentation was an elevated embodiment of the youthful nostalgia that... by Maya Kotomori
Above the Fold Steven Cuffie’s relational image-making The late Baltimore-based photographer Steven Cuffie’s personal archive had been left untouched for years when his children Marcus and Morgan Cuffie began digging through his... by Drew Zeiba
Above the Fold Is a socialite just a scammer who succeeded? ...a search for one such missing socialite, Hermia Druitt: a once-prominent Black artist and aesthete of the early 20th century who has been forgotten—or maybe... by Harron Walker
Above the Fold In ‘Queendom,’ authenticity is resistance ...has future work with Galdanova on the horizon, including a performance in Venice and plans to make a film in the vein of protest for... by Katie Rex
Above the Fold Fine Print: Poetry by any means necessary ...became fragments, fragments unspooled with images, images echoed between speakers, their phrases looping and enlarging, slowly revealing new narratives, new turns. The eight speakers (I... by Drew Zeiba
Above the Fold Best in show: Men’s Spring/Summer 2025 and Women’s Resort Fashion Week—Milan ...grass greens and more classic rich navy blues. These exaggerated proportions complemented color-blocked lug-sole sneakers that combined colors like printer-ink cyan and blood red and... by Maya Kotomori
Above the Fold Even undead, Joan Didion won’t back down ...is that? Admit it—were you phoning it in at The New Yorker? Joan: I was not phoning it in at The New Yorker. When I... by Geoffrey Mak
Above the Fold The Shoptimist: It ain’t the same now ...end result is a completely new style of music that didn’t come from the invention of a new technology, but the innovation of a new... by Maya Kotomori
Above the Fold Moncler Genius announces immersive new project for Shanghai Fashion Week ...Shanghai Fashion Week on October 19th. Started in 2018, Moncler Genius has invented a new platform for fashion collaboration—bringing in leading creatives like Jay-Z and... by Document Journal
Above the Fold Ben Werther asks if LARPing is the new readymade ...as they suddenly have footnotes. Can LARPing be the new readymade? For Document, Ben Werther asks this and the many more questions that tumble out... by Morgan Meier
Above the Fold Montreal-based label Skip Fame turns a former bank building into a ghostly performance space ...a total work of art by doing the most with the least. “We selected from every piece that I had—archives, samples, newer designs—and freestyled on... by Drew Zeiba
Above the Fold In the experimental play ‘4,000 Dollars,’ the streets of New York City are a fiscal fight club ...ale, a lemonade, and one hot tea with lemon (costs unknown plus the six dollars from earlier), Document enters the ring with Pettus and Bland... by Maya Kotomori
At Large Lilly Wachowski’s manifesto on New Mythologies ...so long—all the blurry and fragmented, hidden pieces—were out in the open. It allowed me to see my complete self in my work more clearly... by Lilly Wachowski
Above the Fold Funto Omojola’s cosmological reckonings ...see. In this my whole hole whole hole this still little me me me—an exhibition at A.I.R. Gallery by the New York-based artist Funto Omojola—bodies... by Drew Zeiba
Above the Fold Bela Borsodi’s ‘Birth Life Death’ invents new dynamics for inanimate objects ...Borsodi reflects on the origins of his latest exhibition with Document’s Editor-in-Chief Nick Vogelson. Left: Physiology, Pathology. Right: Trinity. Nick Vogelson: Your show is called... by Nick Vogelson
Above the Fold Jennifer Rochlin and Jennifer Guidi keep each other curious ...a party is a casual way for people to draw on it versus someone like, ‘Oh, come to my studio, come draw on my work.’... by Drew Zeiba
Above the Fold Seeing the unseen in the work of Vivian Maier ...Anne Morin, Laurent Claquin. The event was the latest from Kering’s Women In Motion initiative—the fashion group’s program to “raise awareness of the underrepresentation of... by Document Journal
Above the Fold Dominic Leong knows aesthetics are politics ...architecture is an aesthetic medium that has the power to give presence to different communities.” Drew: Does this thinking about the body or bodies come... by Drew Zeiba
Above the Fold Drew Ducote’s ‘Rednecks with Paychecks’ showcases the torque of Texas’s underground motorist community ...latest in a series of photographic investigations Ducote has made into the hidden cultures of his native Texas: one examining the refinery towns of Texas’s... by Elroy Rosenberg