For Caterina Barbieri, a record is a photograph
Ahead of the release of ‘Myuthafoo,’ the composer joins Document to detail the dynamic process of her craft, and unpack its origins
Blush wants to teach you how to flirt
The dating simulator is the latest of several AI apps aimed at improving your game—but its chatbots are anything but smooth
Saint Laurent renders classic suiting light-as-air
Anthony Vaccarello took to Berlin for Summer 2024, presenting a menswear collection marked by feminine details and a cohesive silhouette
Tamo Jugeli lets the process lead her paintbrush
The Georgian artist speaks on creative risk-taking, the chaos of New York, and stumbling upon her craft
Geese’s booklist for finding nuance in nightmares
The Brooklyn-based band offers Document a selection of books that embody the same ethos as their upcoming sophomore record, ‘3D Country’
Queerness is an ancient medicine
Kelsey Rhodes unravels the inherent power of Pride, its history, and collective community’s capacity for diversifying modes of care
Daytripping: Embracing the barely-known
In her biweekly column for Document, McKenzie Wark mediates on the work of Elysia Crampton, and the problem of letting otherness into our lives
Meet Rayne Fisher-Quann, the people’s (internet) princess
The Canadian essayist joins Document to discuss online culture, the modern mental health landscape, and playing a character who just happens to be herself
For Oliver Frank Chanarin, fact is forever in flux
Following the release of ‘A Perfect Sentence,’ the photographer joins Document to unpack the still-evolving philosophies of his practice
Brontez Purnell’s parafiction of performance
Staged at Trotter & Sholer, the artist’s first solo exhibition challenges the borders of identity and artifice, dreaming of an in-between space
Kristie Muller’s subject is peculiarity itself
For Document, the photographer shares a selection of images that illustrate the weight of perspective
Objects of Desire: Alaïa’s Le Cœur Bag
Document’s definitive guide to the season’s most covetable accessories
Erdem Moralıoğlu’s costuming bridges dynamism with delicacy
For the Royal Opera House’s ‘Corybantic Games,’ the designer recasts visions of intimacy, athleticism, and ’50s femininity
Transcending Cannes—at Cannes
Despite its reputation as a playground for the industry’s elite, this year’s festival selection did champion a diverse intellectual spirit
The resurrection of Youth Lagoon
Ahead of the release of ‘Heaven Is a Junkyard,’ Trevor Powers joins Document to discuss dogs, God, names, and music
The curious case of hallucinating chatbots
Microsoft Bing went off the rails, and Google’s Bard made an error in its first public demo—yet search engines are still racing to integrate AI
The Deep Water Literary Festival builds upon George Orwell’s enduring vision
The small town of Narrowsburg, New York will host contemporary literature’s visionaries, as they reflect on the great English novelist’s legacy
For Jeanette Andrews, magic is a mode of philosophy
Ahead of the premiere of ‘In Plain Listen,’ the artist joins Document to examine the meaning of her medium, and make a case for its...
Reading Sean DeLear: A vicarious, astral convergence of past and future lives
Journey Streams reflects on ‘I Could Not Believe It,’ the artist’s 1979 diary archiving the complex landscape of adolescent Black queerness
True crime TikTokers are employing AI to resurrect murder victims
Deepfakes, which have long been used to create explicit content without consent, are now being leveraged to craft a new kind of trauma porn
The vulgar, campy, radical world of filmmaker Bruce LaBruce
From the prop room of his upcoming feature ‘The Visitor,’ the shock connoisseur talks Pasolini, religious ecstasy, and the true ethos of experimental art
A tech bro created an AI-powered clone of his own girlfriend
The framework for the project, dubbed ‘GirlfriendGPT,’ is now available online, spurring concerns about consent in the era of customized chatbots
‘Titanic Depression’ is not a parody
Following a two-night run of her show, Jibz Cameron joins Document to philosophize on Jack and Rose, tragedy addiction, and the nature of performance
Objects of Desire: Moschino’s Flamingo Heels
Document’s definitive guide to the season’s most covetable accessories
Finding the words to reconnect with a lost cultural identity
In a series of portraits and interviews, photographer Elinor Kry explores the ways in which a lack of fluency in language bolsters distance from ethnicity
Bookmarked: Everything the Document editors watched, read, ate, bought, and listened to in May
From perfectly-priced, almost-perfectly-hued paint to a profile of the Neil Diamond of Nintendo, our team shares the very best of what we consumed this month
For Balenciaga, life is a runway—and should be treated as such
The house displayed its Spring 2024 collection in a slice-of-life performance, imagining a world where everyone is adorned head-to-toe in its designs
Alice Longyu Gao’s playlist for getting over your Dimes Square crush
The artist invites you into xyr colorful chaotic world of queer prosperity
Livestream the Balenciaga Spring 2024 show here
Watch the stream exclusively on Document this Tuesday, May 30 at 3:00 p.m. CET / 9:00 a.m. EST
Frans de Waal and Isabella Rossellini find models for morality in the past and the primal
At Pioneer Works, the two met to investigate where man went wrong, and the misused excuses of biology for prejudices
Remembering Kenneth Anger, an icon of queer cinematic counterculture
The groundbreaking filmmaker believed movies were “evil” and likened his practice to the “casting of a spell”—the influence of which is imbued across visual culture
Water From Your Eyes is expert in the art of accident
Ahead of the release of ‘Everyone’s Crushed,’ Rachel Brown and Nate Amos join Document to unpack their unintentional self-prophesying and extrapolate the record’s many meanings
Objects of Desire: Bottega Veneta’s Andiamo Bag
Document’s definitive guide to the season’s most covetable accessories
How voice cloning is changing the music industry
Universal Music Group just inked a deal with Endel AI—further cementing a revolution in modern listening habits and intellectual property laws alike
‘The Complete Incoherence’ oozes with the essence of Gaetano Pesce
In this much-anticipated monograph, critic and curator Glenn Adamson portraits the expanse of the Italian architect and designer’s idiosyncratic oeuvre
Story of an Archive: Inside Boo-Hooray, Johan Kugelberg’s subcultural treasure chest
Document presents a look at the collection’s most compelling ephemera, safeguarding hip-hop’s New York history and Keith Haring’s earliest ideas
‘Analog Human Studies’ is provocative and agonizingly intimate
More than 15 years following the release of ‘Lost Boys,’ Slava Mogutin presents a new photography book—bestowing queer culture with an ever-changing face
Behind the scenes at Fever Ray’s hypnotic New York show
Writer and philosopher FT reviews the ‘There’s No Place I’d Rather Be,’ tour—a “deranged circus,” with vocalist Karin Dreijer as its ringmaster
Malice K adopts an old-school ethos on “Complicated Dreams”
Alexander Konschuh joins Document to dissect the intentions, personal reckonings, and painstaking process behind the making of his stop-motion music video
Standing Ground bridges the earthen with the cosmic
Michael Stewart Dunne, the designer behind the burgeoning label, speaks to the Irish relics that inspire him, and the traditions of craftsmanship he lives by
Amidst a rise in cybercrime, researchers trained an AI on the dark web
Having scoured the internet’s seedy underbelly, DarkBERT suggests that, in the future, AI may play an even bigger role in online policing
For Juergen Teller, confrontation is an art and an act of care
‘The Master V’ is the latest installment in the photographer’s ongoing series—featuring his manifold muses, from Iggy Pop to Julia Fox
Szilvia Molnar’s ‘The Nursery’ paints a grim portrait of parenthood
Against a cultural backdrop of #TradWives and #BossQueens, the novel delves into the dark side of nuclear family, in scenes shockingly blunt and intimate
Objects of Desire: Loro Piana’s Blossom Bag
Document’s definitive guide to the season’s most covetable accessories
Inside London Craft Week, where tradition meets modernity
Document spoke with a few of the fair’s innovative makers, celebrating the heritage of weaving, millinery, metalworking, and more
A playlist portrait of Lauren Early
Ahead of the release of ‘Don’t Take My Dream Away,’ the musician offers Document a soundtrack to herself—from first favorite songs to unexpected artistic influences
Francesco Vezzoli confronts the legacy of the classical
The artist joins Document to dissect ‘VITA DULCIS,’ his exhibition of multimedia fantasias decontextualizing antiquity for modern contexts
Misha Japanwala wants you to be without shame
In her new exhibition, the artist documents the bodies of those who have worked to forge a more liberated society in her native Karachi
At Club Onyx, Adrienne Raquel documents the reality behind the strip club’s fantasy
Previously on view at Fotografiska, the photography series is now available in the form of a monograph
