Pornhub blocks access in Utah to protest new age verification laws
The legislation chips away at the right to privacy online—raising questions about the cost of making the internet safe for children
‘100% (Ciento por Ciento)’ spotlights Patagonia’s storied landscape, and the fight to protect it
Colin Dodgson’s photo book, created in collaboration with the World Land Trust, connects with the communities working to preserve the world’s most wild regions
Daytripping: Learning the art of letting go
In her biweekly column for Document, McKenzie Wark writes about a cross-generational spring party and the simple comforts of dance
The art of curating Coachella
Raffi Lehrer joins Document to discuss the impact of large-scale installation work, and which sorts of creatives make the cut
Bookmarked: Everything the Document editors watched, read, ate, bought, and listened to in April
From our latest print issue to Delta Sky Club rewards, our team shares the very best of what we consumed this month
Miami is a poem we write together
Vignettes from O, Miami Festival: bee-keeping, traffic, and readings cementing a quick-changing city’s literary scene
Inside TRANSFIX, the world’s largest touring immersive art experience
Set in a multi-level labyrinth off the Las Vegas strip, the event’s inaugural edition is a choose-your-own-adventure featuring art from over 50 creators
James Walsh builds wearable sculpture, fueled by childhood nostalgia
The budding designer takes inspiration from doll clothes and porcelain figures, softening the futurism of his techniques with a playful aesthetic
The slow sea odyssey of ‘Human Flowers of Flesh’ renders everything from “nothing”
Thoughtful meditations are foregrounded in German filmmaker Helena Wittmann’s modern take on Claire Denis’s ‘Beau Travail’
Document Launches Spring/Summer 2023: Return to the Real
Ask Liara: A sex worker’s guide to living, loving, and fucking
In the April edition of their monthly column for Document, Liara Roux tackles the phenomenon that is the fuckboy
An Orwellian guide to the making of a literary festival
At a New York City soirée ahead of the Narrowsburg event, Deep Water founder Aaron Hicklin read out the 11-step plan that started it all
Spotify has a fake artist problem
Users are encountering AI-generated songs by artists that don’t exist—many of which are being aggressively promoted by the platform’s algorithm
Bad Words: Missing the Black Party, a pilgrimage site for gay men
The Saint’s legendary annual bacchanal shut down after 40 years, signaling a bittersweet transition in the landscape of queer life
At Milan Design Week, Byredo looks back to Bal D’Afrique’s roots
Founder Ben Gorham sits down with artist Dozie Kanu, discussing the geography of his oldest and most recognizable fragrance
Objects of Desire: Chloé’s Penelope clutch bag
Document’s definitive guide to the season’s most covetable accessories
‘Rear View’ zeroes in on the nude portrait, as seen from behind
LDGR’s latest show explores the trope across eras, featuring artwork from the likes of Francis Bacon, Mickalene Thomas, Egon Schiele, and Andy Warhol
Lila Roo makes art from the discarded
On the island of Bequia, the designer transforms plastic waste into works part textile, part sculpture, and part performance
Can you copyright a voice?
Faced with the virality of deepfake Drake, Universal Music made a bid to shut down AI-generated songs
‘Beef’ star David Choe admitted to raping a woman—and he just got the proof taken off Twitter
After clips of his problematic comments resurfaced on social media, the actor attempted to silence his accusers by reporting the content for ‘copyright infringement’
Daytripping: The top 20 nightlife scenes in cinema
In her bi-weekly column for Document, McKenzie Wark lists her favorite instances of on-screen dancing, from the rave in Zion to ’60s sci-fi fantasia
A sonic map toward Frost Children’s strange, spiritual world
Following the release of ‘SPEED RUN,’ the New York-based duo offers Document a soundtrack for an open, anfractuous road
‘How to Blow Up a Pipeline’ is a call-to-arms for a disillusioned world
Fed up with the ineffectiveness of peaceful protest, a group of young activists decide to burn it all down for the sake of our future
Saint Laurent spearheads ‘Strange Way of Life,’ Pedro Almodóvar’s answer to ‘Brokeback Mountain’
The short film, starring Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal, is set to premiere at Cannes, kickstarting the French house’s foray into the realm of cinema
The Life’s complete list of sampling feats
In honor of the recent remix of his single by CFCF, Curtis Everett Pawley offers Document a playlist of his own favorite reproductions
Google put 25 AI agents together in a Sims-inspired virtual town, and told them to go about their lives
The ChatGPT-powered characters go to work, flirt, and throw Valentine’s day parties—forecasting new uses for AI in the study of human behavior
Objects of Desire: Prada’s Moon bag
Document’s definitive guide to the season’s most covetable accessories
‘Myself When I Am Real’ puts forth the unseen half of Barkley L. Hendricks’s practice
Jack Shainman Gallery will display the late painter’s photographic work, conveying his lighthearted approach to art-making and a glimpse into his immediate world
The risks and rewards of jailbreaking ChatGPT
When companies put sexual restrictions chatbots, users race to get around them—but there are other side effects to disabling the technology’s guardrails
Les Domaines de Fontenille imbue luxury with local character
Frédéric Biousse and Guillaume Foucher’s hotel line prioritizes connection to a place, reflecting the geographies their destinations rest upon
Dino Kiratzidis and Michael Spencer Phillips escape the traditional stage
Ahead of the latest installation of their Site-Specific Dances series, the architect and choreographer discuss building from a legacy, and designing for performance
Objects of Desire: Louis Vuitton’s XL Key Pouch
Document’s definitive guide to the season’s most covetable accessories
Forbes fraudster Charlie Javice may just be the new Elizabeth Holmes
Charged with falsifying data to close a $175 billion deal, the young founder is the latest 30-Under-30 winner to be arrested for financial crimes
Christopher Michael’s ‘What’s Contemporary’ bricolages the countless perspectives of modernity
Following his departure from the agency space, the creative multihyphenate resurrects his digital platform in podcast form
How do you moderate a chatbot?
In banning renderings of Chinese president Xi Jinping worldwide, Midjourney sparked debate about the policing of AI-generated content—and the line between regulation and censorship
Daytripping: Herding cats
In her bi-weekly column for Document, McKenzie Wark writes about raves in relation to service workers, and how she once got on the wrong side...
Remembering Ryuichi Sakamoto, Japanese composer and technopop pioneer
Document curates a selection of the musician’s far-ranging work, from synth-heavy film scores to classical ballads to indelible video game soundtracks
Jack Wagner takes your ghost stories seriously
On ‘Otherworld,’ the podcaster feeds into a resurgent cultural interest in the paranormal, from near-death experiences to demonic encounters to lost time
Amidst calls to halt the advancement of generative tech, a chatbot convinced a man to kill himself
This incident comes in the wake of an open letter from AI experts, urging technologists to halt developments beyond GPT-4 ‘for the good of humanity’
Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s politics of care
The prison abolitionist and scholar discusses community policing, the failure of Anglo-American geography, and the notion of freedom as a place
Bookmarked: Everything the Document editors watched, read, ate, bought, and listened to in March
From ’80s Brian Eno to the Gwyneth Paltrow trial to metaverse deep-dives, our team shares the very best of what we consumed this month
Tokens of a Type: How Levi’s AI models continue a history of human-averaging
Artificial Intelligence may be new, but its racial and gender-based biases are not—paradoxically disappearing the individual under the guise of championing diversity
Why is menstrual blood banned in porn? You might want to ask your credit card company
In the era of e-commerce, payment processors have become the internet’s unofficial content moderators—because when banks threaten to revoke service, platforms listen
The noirish, alternative world of ‘The Biography of X’
Author Catherine Lacey sits down with Document, discussing her latest novel’s take on narcissism, art-world celebrity, and the tragedy of US history
Rafael Prieto meditates on the harmony between the natural and man-made
Ahead of his show at Emma Scully Gallery, the artist reflects on his design philosophy, which hinges on the embrace of what’s beautiful in its...
Document takes to Montreal, uniting nightlife and fashion with Holt Renfrew Ogilvy
For the second iteration of the 'After Dark' party series, cabaret bar Vol de Nuit set the stage for a night of transition and cultural...
Why can’t sex workers find a bank?
Following the Silicon Valley Bank collapse, another shutdown went unnoticed: that of SpankPay, one of the few payment platforms catering to the adult industry
flowerovlove’s scene-by-scene soundtrack to adolescent romance
Following the release of her latest single “Love You,” Joyce Cisse offers a playlist of the pop anthems that shaped her mission of self-love
Ask Liara: A sex worker’s guide to living, loving, and fucking
In the March edition of their monthly column for Document, Liara Roux addresses a reader’s inner turmoil around cosmetic procedures and the doors they open
