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
Daytripping: Living in the gaps of being
In her biweekly column for Document, McKenzie Wark writes about dissonance—in music, at the party, and in one’s own body
Document premieres the music video for “UNAVAILABLE,” Casey Spooner’s sonic meditation on sex and death
In communion with Fire Island’s storied geography, the artist explores the particular agonies and pleasures of longing
Artists and journalists call for the restriction of AI illustration in publishing
In an open letter, Molly Crabapple and Mazria Katz advocate against the use of the technology in journalism, a medium long defined by human storytellers
Objects of Desire: Dior’s Micro Lady bag
Document’s definitive guide to the season’s most covetable accessories
‘Femme F(r)iction’ canvasses the trailblazing work of a century of female creatives
C1760’s sweeping group exhibition traverses medium, featuring the work of Judy Chicago, Jeanne Silverthorne, Najla El Zein, and many more
Kate Ahn bares it all in ‘Oh No! I’m Naked!’
The LA-based artist’s first hometown solo show grapples with fantasy and the freedoms of sexual expression
Luis Alberto Rodriguez’s ‘O.’ is a noise, a gasp, a cycle, a reset
The photographer’s latest book seeks moments of transcendence, imagined in dynamic studio nudes and coffee-ground divination
Paw Gissel documents the ease of the Brazilian coast
Rio de Janeiro’s communal spaces are an antidote to its inequities, snapshotted through a humanist lens by the Copenhagen-based photographer
Inside Jean Paul Gaultier and The Webster’s Spring/Summer 2023 launch party
The house’s ‘FLOWERS’ collection was put on full display amidst fittingly lush arrangements—a reclamation of its early-2000s archive
Claire Dederer’s ‘Monsters’ is a story about us
The author set out to write a book about the art of monstrous men—in the process, she rendered a complex portrait of humanity
Objects of Desire: Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello’s Jerry 110 sandals
Document’s definitive guide to the season’s most covetable accessories
‘The Godfather of AI’ speaks out about the dangers of the technology he helped create
Geoffrey Hinton has left Google, joining the chorus of industry leaders warning against the race to deploy new AI models
