20 years later, ‘United States of Attica’ is still a rallying cry for prison reform
Alife® and the Brooklyn Museum teamed to bring Faith Ringgold’s seminal work to a new audience for its inaugural Black History Month capsule collection.
Nina Las Vegas on how lockout laws are killing Sydney’s club culture
The Australian DJ vents about how much the nightlife landscape has changed for the worse since the introduction of Sydney's lockout laws.
How a Chinese reality show made hip hop mainstream in Taiwan
With hip hop being banned on television in mainland China, Taiwan is leading the way for Chinese-language rap.
Finding my Filipino identity in Maia Cruz Palileo’s art
Document senior editor Ann Binlot writes on her search for representation of her Filipino heritage only to find it through the art of contemporary artist...
The surrealist film noir set in the aftermath of Trump’s inauguration
Josephine Meckseper weaves Trump’s inauguration and the Women’s March that followed into a new iteration of Maurice Maeterlinck’s Pelléas et Mélisande.
Cheryl Donegan, 90s video provocateur, opens a show about air conditioners
The feminist icon opened her latest exhibition, GRLZ + VEILS at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston in homage to New York's air conditioner grills.
Close Journal’s new issue will make you want to call your mom
The bi-coastal magazine explores the myriad meanings of "family" through fashion, art, photography, and design.
Behind the scenes at Kenzo’s ayahuasca-fueled Fall/Winter 2019 show
Kenzo’s Humberto Leon and Carol Lim tapped Peruvian artist Pablo Amaringo to create a hallucogenic set inspired by an ayahuasca trip.
Backstage at Dior Men’s Fall 2019 show
Just weeks after his cyborg-chic Tokyo extravaganza, Kim Jones teams up with Raymond Pettibon for an equally futuristic Fall/Winter 2019.
Eric N. Mack challenges conventional painting at the Brooklyn Museum
The painter dives in on his experience as a black man from DC metro area influenced by art and fashion in his new Brooklyn Museum...
Charles Jeffrey heads to the Weimar Republic and Never-Never Land
Charles Jeffrey parties on—with a socially-conscious message—in his Fall 2019 Loverboy collection.
Mina Cheon is sending art lessons into North Korea, and sharing Choco Pie with the world
As part of the Document Journal x Prada Mode conversation series at Art Basel in Miami Beach, we highlight six visionary artists changing the future...
Virgil Abloh and Grace Wales Bonner imagine their ideal cities
Hans Ulrich Obrist asked Virgil Abloh, Grace Wales Bonner, Arthur Jafa, Torkwase Dyson, and Francis Kéré to describe their ideal metropolis at Design Miami/.
Document and Prada discuss the future of offline media and online identities
At Art Basel in Miami Beach, Document Journal hosted two panels which explored different perspectives from around the globe to reveal the inner workings of...
Raúl de Nieves creates a magical carousel with Bulgari and Art Production Fund
Raúl de Nieves's ‘When I Look Into Your Eyes I See the Sun’ is on view at the Faena Hotel South Beach through the end...
How Peter Philips created the cyborg-chic looks at Dior Men’s
Dior's Makeup Creative & Image Director discusses the Tron-inspired grooming he created for the Dior Men's Pre-Fall 2019 show in Tokyo.
Studio visit: Eddie Martinez whites out his work inside his Bushwick space
Eddie Martinez met with Document ahead of his exhibition, White Outs, at The Bronx Museum.
Jenny Holzer’s powerful AIDS Day performance reminds us to keep fighting
For #LighttheFight, Jenny Holzer lit up New York streets with quotes from activists, writers, and politicians.
Wes Anderson and Juman Malouf bring their wondrous world to the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna
Wes Anderson and his partner Juman Malouf curated an exhibition featuring 5,000 years of art and antiquities from the collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna.
The origin of Loro Piana’s rare Baby Cashmere
Each June, Loro Piana travels to the Alashan Mountains, deep in Inner Mongolia, to harvest the soft, ultrafine, luxurious wool of the young Capra hircus...
Studio visit: Dan Colen draws the connection between Wile E. Coyote and the never-ending chase
Dan Colen's latest exhibition at Gagosian Beverly Hills, High Noon, features Warner Bros.-inspired desert landscapes
Liu Ye’s whimsical paintings take over Prada Rong Zhai in Shanghai
Storytelling features 30 paintings by Chinese artist Liu Ye at the Prada-restored mansion Rong Zhai in Shanghai.
Rodarte becomes the first fashion label exhibited at the National Museum of Women in the Arts
A 13-year survey of the intricate work of Kate and Laura Mulleavy—the sisters behind Rodarte—is on view at NMWA in Washington, D.C. through February 10.
Katharina Grosse takes us inside her first solo show in China
Katharina Grosse: Mumbling Mud looks at new frontiers in painting through a Chinese lens, and is on view at K11 in Shanghai through February 24,...
The long, layered narrative of the Pacific Rim
The Detours section at Shanghai's Art021 examines the consequences of globalization and the return to regionalism in the Pacific Rim through the stories of its...
All eyes were on Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Tbilisi
Labels like Situationist, George Keburia, and Tatuna Nikolaishvili presented at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Tbilisi, one of the most anticipated off the traditional fashion calendar.
Ebony G. Patterson flashes her discordant opulence
Above, below, beneath provides a window into the political stakes of Ebony G. Patterson's decadent, intricate tapestries from Document's Fall/Winter 2018 issue.
Georgian designers stand up for gay rights during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Tbilisi
George Keburia and Situationist’s Irakli Rusadze both inserted pro-LGBTQ messages in their Spring 2019 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Tbilisi collections.
Demna Gvasalia invites you into the world of Balenciaga
Balenciaga creative director Demna Gvasalia commissioned photographers Johnny Dufort and Pierre Ange Carlotti to take images for the Rizzoli book Balenciaga: Winter 2018.
Where do I vote?
Confused about where to vote? Search for your polling place and learn what to do should an unforeseen circumstance arise on Election Day.
Catherine Opie torches the American Dream
Catherine Opie highlights the dying American Dream through the narrative of an arsonist burning Los Angeles's majestic modernist structures.
Grace Coddington and Nicolas Ghesquière put their pets on a Louis Vuitton capsule collection
The Louis Vuitton Catogram collection features Grace Coddington's illustrations of her beloved cats Pumpkin and Blanket, as well as Nicolas Ghesquière's dear dog Léon.
New York sees Andy Warhol’s “Shadows” for the first time since 1998
The Dia Art Foundation is presenting 48 canvases Andy Warhol's 1978-1979 "Shadow" series at Calvin Klein's headquarters through December 15.
Tavares Strachan edits history by placing Tupac Shakur’s name on the Carnegie Museum of Art
Artist Tavares Strachan placed "invisible" names like Fell, Monk, Lamarr, Norgay, and more alongside Rembrandt, Chopin, Franklin, and Darwin on the museum's façade for the...
Document celebrates Suspiria with Grace Coddington and Luca Guadagnino
Document editor-in-chief Nick Vogelson, Alek Wek, Mica Arganaraz, Craig McDean, and Doug Lloyd joined Coddington and Guadagnino for an intimate dinner at The Standard.
Swipecast founders Peter Fitzpatrick and Matthias Wickenburg on how the app is disrupting the fashion industry
Swipecast allows models to book jobs, producers to coordinate shoots and castings, and more—in an efficient, cost-effective, and timely manner.
Kerry James Marshall created comic strip with black characters to show “it can be done”
Undaunted by the lack of black comic characters he saw as a child, African-American artist Kerry James Marshall created a few for the 57th Carnegie...
The art of being a muse
The muses of Robert Mapplethorpe, Herb Ritts, Keith Haring, Will Cotton, Mickalene Thomas, and Damian Loeb discuss their experiences sitting for some of history's most...
“I was not focused on commercial galleries”: Suellen Rocca on her practice, Hairy Who, and the Chicago art scene
Artist Suellen Rocca, who has work currently being shown in three exhibitions this fall at Matthew Marks, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Elmhurst...
Enrico David explores the human condition through shape and form
A 20-year survey of Enrico David's work is on view at the MCA Chicago through spring 2019.
The Paris Fashion Week report: Rock and roll lives on, boxy suits, and patchwork prints
Document scopes out the trends of Paris Fashion Week, from Gucci's Paris debut, to Hedi Slimane's first Celine collection, to Miu Miu, Louis Vuitton, Chanel,...
“New Yorkers are strange and beautiful, just like toes”: Amit Greenberg marks the first US Birkenstock store
Birkenstock celebrates the opening of its first American retail outlet in New York through a collaboration with New York-based artist Amit Greenberg.
Hedi Slimane’s Celine is fresh, young, and full of rock and roll glamour
The fashion designer also introduced the French fashion house Celine to menswear in his debut collection.
“They were a ‘high-tech’ shoe at the time”: Tennis legend Stan Smith on his iconic Adidas sneaker
Ann Binlot quizzes Stan Smith on the 50-year rise of the minimal white shoes Adidas initially named after tennis player Robert Haillet.
The Milan Fashion Week report: polka dots, stripes and 50 shades of brown
Document looks at the trends from Milan's designers, from Luke and Lucie Meier’s easygoing minimalism at Jil Sander to Domenico Dolce’s and Stefano Gabbana’s Italian...
Wolfgang Tillmans questions himself in David Zwirner exhibition
“How likely is it that only I am right in this matter?” asks photographer Wolfgang Tillmans through abstract ink prints, raw portraiture, and his artful...
The London Fashion Week report: Victorian codes, a visit to an English garden, and ruffles abound
Document looks at the trends of London Fashion Week, from lace-trimmed garments at Burberry, to florals at Pringle of Scotland and Erdem.
Riccardo Tisci’s Burberry debut signals a new era for the storied British fashion house
Burberry chief creative officer Riccardo Tisci marked his debut collection with a narrative imbued with London's punk roots and posh sensibilities.
The New York Fashion Week report: Model diversity on the rise, school is in session, and leopard love
Document went inside New York Fashion Week to observe the trends on the runway, from statements of inclusivity to updated versions of classic silhouettes.
