Document Journal and FSG x MCD celebrate Caleb Femi’s ‘The Wickedest’
A party at Mood Ring launched the British poet and director’s latest book
Amber Later’s ‘Special Moss’ mines the slippages of poetry and prose
The New York-based writer’s debut collection spans four centuries while traversing mysterious landscapes
Iwan Baan’s ‘Rome — Las Vegas’ explores both cities from above and below
The photographer’s recent project asks how architecture shapes reality in an era of mass tourism and simulation
Fine Print: Thirty-three top reads of 2024
Messy! Nasty! Silly! Columnist Drew Zeiba revisits the past year in books
Escapism without escape
Drew Zeiba seeks the source of infinity at the fairs, museums, parties, and performances surrounding Art Basel Miami Beach
Fine Print: You’re a winner, baby
On the heels of the National Book Awards announcements, columnist Drew Zeiba asks what prizes mean for publishing
Kiernan Francis’s ‘Champions’ reimagines interior life
The filmmaker visits his family’s Chicago home, presenting an architectural vision of victory with local designers
YATTA premieres ‘MTV,’ their music-video remix of suburbia
For Document, the musician and artist gives an exclusive behind-the-scenes interview on the multivalent universe of faith, pop, and experimentation contained within their newest record,...
Mike Kelley’s final paintings are character studies of the lost self
In this portfolio of never-before-exhibited images from Document’s Fall/Winter 2024–25 issue, the late artist reveals fractured lines of humor, submission, and solitude
Fine Print: Did Michel Houellebecq steal Thomas Bernhard’s coat?
In his monthly column, Drew Zeiba hunts for clues in the controversial French author’s latest novel, ‘Annihilation’
The lyric monuments of Barbara Chase-Riboud
Currently the subject of a Paris retrospective spanning eight institutions, the artist and author divulges her poetic process for these works-on-paper published for the first...
Chloë Sevigny and Eileen Myles disrupt artistic expectations
The filmmaker and actor joins the writer to talk about performance, Provincetown, and loving the broken and pathetic for Document’s Fall/Winter 2024–25 issue
Cate Blanchett and Alfonso Cuarón vitalize narrative potential
The actor and director unfurl the cinematic story for Document Journal’s Fall/Winter 2024–25 issue
Fine Print: ‘The weirder and freakier the better’
Columnist Drew Zeiba sits down with ‘Language Arts’ co-editors Layla Halabian and Sophia June to talk about books, bags, and branding
Audrey Nuna rediscovers freedom on the stage
Having just dropped her new single “Suckin Up,” the musician joins Document to talk collaboration, her DIY roots, and Anaïs Nin
Fine Print: The crónica as daily epic
In his column, Drew Zeiba reads possibilities for prose and politics in new collections of Hebe Uhart, Clarice Lispector, and Pedro Lemebel’s kaleidoscopic essays
For five decades, Mira Schor has blended concept and image
Following major solo exhibitions in New York and Paris, the artist joins Document to discuss language, legacy, and the ‘thingness’ of painting
Steven Cuffie’s relational image-making
A new zine and exhibition provide a glimpse into the rich archive of intimate portraits by the late photographer
Fine Print: Poetry by any means necessary
For his monthly column, Drew Zeiba traverses New York City in search of performances beyond the page
Montreal-based label Skip Fame turns a former bank building into a ghostly performance space
In ‘Won / One / Whah Gwan’ Brandon Lajoie and Gregory Miller stage a hybrid runway show without beginning or end
Funto Omojola’s cosmological reckonings
Hair, plastic, clay, and pictures come together to challenge conceptions of illness and image at the artist and poet’s photography installation at A.I.R. Gallery
Jennifer Rochlin and Jennifer Guidi keep each other curious
On the occasion of Rochlin’s exhibition ‘Paintings on Clay’ at Hauser and Wirth, the two artists talk about friendship, collaboration, and the potency of nature
Dominic Leong knows aesthetics are politics
The co-founder of the architecture firm Leong Leong discusses fashion, public space, land recovery, and design’s impact on bodies throughout history
Stacy Skolnik’s genre-bending ‘The Ginny Suite’ is an experiment in post-pandemic poetics
The writer discusses her dissociative debut novel’s speculative journey through sex, sickness, and literary form
Fine Print: In the labyrinth of the no
In his monthly column, Drew Zeiba considers the creative merits of giving up through tales of defiant scriveners, starving artists, and painters fluent in refusal
New Red Order blends satire and sincerity to deconstruct empire
For Document’s Spring/Summer 2024 issue, the public secret society and art collective mobilizes a campaign for returning land to Indigenous Americans
Kristen Wentrcek and Andrew Zebulon find inspiration at the DMV
In the art-design duo’s studio, references to bodies and buildings meet unexpected material experimentation
Shahzia Sikander transforms time into a medium
In an exclusive portfolio for Document Journal’s Spring/Summer 2024 issue, the artist merges the present, past, and possible
Jacques Vallée and Jeffrey J. Kripal challenge the limits of knowledge
The scientist and scholar discuss UFO sightings, AI utopias, and top-secret projects for Document’s Spring/Summer 2024 issue
Fine Print: Like letting the world read your diary
Columnist Drew Zeiba considers the risks of leaving a record through the journals of Sheila Heti, Virginia Woolf, and Tina Brown
In ‘Body Objects,’ artists and designers sculpt hair, silicone, and bacteria
Designer Brecht Wright Gander’s curatorial debut takes on a semi-animate world
In Jennifer Croft’s ‘The Extinction of Irena Rey,’ literature is alive—even dangerous
Set in a Polish forest, the award-winning translator’s first novel embarks on a rewilding of language, narrative, and art itself
Into the dungeon with Simon Denny
The Berlin-based artist takes over multiple floors of the Upper East Side’s Petzel Gallery to uncover how gamer imaginaries shape our reality
Taja Cheek makes curation a collaborative art
The newly appointed artistic director of Performance Space New York sits down with Document ahead of the East Village institution’s 44th annual gala
Fine Print: A Tale of One City
For his monthly column, Drew Zeiba spends 24 hours partying in Manhattan’s alternate literary realities
Fine Print: Can two writers handle real life together?
For his first monthly column, Drew Zeiba asks if art is worth it
Artist Sofia Crespo’s ‘Structures of Being’ illuminates Barcelona
In a large-scale projection mapping, neural nets help reimagine Antoni Gaudí’s Casa Batlló
Kaur Alia Ahmed crafts poetry in three dimensions with ‘sky, harp’
The New York–based artist and writer merges sound, sculpture, and sport in their debut solo show
Erin Grant celebrates her New York premiere with a night of cinematic illusions
The actor and directer spotlights genre-bending shorts from New York filmmakers featuring Illuminati P.I.s, a fallen angel, and a not-so-magic rodent
Aesthetically Incorrect: Inside the Glenn Martens universe
The “designer’s designer” talks Y/Project, bad taste, and the Belgian disposition towards beauty
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
