Culture can cure cities, but it can plague them, too
April 30, 2018 7:25 pm Leave your thoughtsResearchers at Nokia Bell Labs have created the first cultural analytics report linking culture capital with urban growth—and gentrification.
Researchers at Nokia Bell Labs have created the first cultural analytics report linking culture capital with urban growth—and gentrification.
Ermenegildo Zegna’s artistic director—who can trace his heritage to the region responsible for the existence of luxury menswear—discusses the brand's newfound approach to sustainable innovation for Document's SS 2018 issue.
The Chinese-born dissident artist has long used social media as an artistic medium, so how are we to interpret his recent selfie with one of Germany’s most xenophobic politicians?
In this cover story from our SS 2018 issue, an exclusive look at an original portfolio of work by Lorna Simpson for Document.
Document speaks with the four members of The Litas, featured in a Bulgari-produced documentary premiering this week at the Tribeca Film Festival.
How two recent films, Eli Roth's remake of 'Death Wish' and the Safdie Brother's 'Good Time,' update a less-spoken promise of the American dream: instant vigilantism.
South Korea's decades-long aural assault on North Korea has suddenly gone quiet.
Document teamed up with MatchesFashion.com to toast the launch of the new issue at the ICA in London.
The artist captured air samples from major cities across the globe in his latest installation, which has been deemed unfit for public exposure.
Photographer Willy Vanderperre and contributing fashion editor Olivier Rizzo in collaboration for Document's SS 2018 issue.
The Oscar-winning director spoke with Document about the Criterion Collection release of her debut film.
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice makes steps to right the wrongs of the American South.
After coming off of a triumphant second season leading the house Chloé, the designer sets her faith in the power of habit.
Never before published drawings by Joan Jonas that were inspired by a “Female Devouring Ghost” perched on the shore between life and death.
Document talks with the French author about her breakthrough novel, Blue Self-Portrait, out in the U.S. this month.
The question of building skyscrapers in dense urban areas is one we should be asking.
What does the rise of workwear in fashion say about our own ideas about labor in the age of automation and the Amazon warehouse?
Long revered and often imitated, the photographer surveys a storied career overflowing with experimentation and left turns with curator Hans Ulrich Obrist.
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Photographer Alex Lockett and stylist Ai Kamoshita explore the interrelated points of domesticity.
But at least the artwork in question earned a top prize.
The creative directors of Jil Sander have brought their fusion of elite and cult style to the brand's minimalist halls.
After the actress-turned-gubernatorial hopeful announced her proposal to legalize marijuana, last week, guess who followed suit?
'In those days, it was so much fun to take pictures of people because they were never suspicious. They were just honored.'
The latest monograph from Aperture, The Photographer in the Garden, is a simple homage to the garden's delicate perfection.
Researchers at Florida Atlantic University discovered that ego-centric words are used less as humans age.
The novelists, famous for addressing the trauma of the present and the past in their work, seek to harness the energy of uncompromised political beliefs in Document's Spring/Summer 2018 issue.
Auction house Guernsey's is offering bidders the bedroom doors the once contained Janis Joplin, Leonard Cohen, Jimi Hendrix, and Humphrey Bogart.
The platform is increasingly targeting pre-teens with a total disregard for privacy.
With the release of Document No. 12, our Editor-in-Chief & Creative Director Nick Vogelson looks at how the changing of the artist's role in culture is reflected in our S/S 18 issue.
Watch out, Sherlock.
The scaremongering by Musk and other 'tech-bros' says more about the exploitative business model of Silicon Valley than Artificial Intelligence's capacity to do actual harm.
The dangers of innocuous data have never been more visible until now.
Artist Jon Rafman captures the anxiety unleashed by the aggregations of Russian trolls and Cambridge Analytica.
'I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die.'
On ‘Freedom’, his fifth record as Amen Dunes, Damon McMahon makes post-modern soul music that stares down the borderless terrain of the self.
Trans* can be pronounced three different ways and represents up to four different gender variances.
The experimental composers discuss the musical ideas that, for them, burn more brightly than the rest.
At the art world's biggest party in Asia, blue-chip gallery David Zwirner unveiled new work by Wolfgang Tillmans, while luxury brands such as Loro Piana, and personal brands like Virgil Abloh, embraced the possibilities of art making.
Photographer Max Cornwall and Fashion Editor Alice Lefons decode traditional notions of beauty.
'This photo of the flash flood in Rancho Mirage evokes all of the disasters that are going to happen because of extreme weather. I wish that wasn't the case.'
As an increasing number of designers end their relationship with fur, we ask if the split is permanent.