Lily Burgess and Lauren Massie’s ‘A Vehement Flame’ is a photographic manifestation of love’s unpredictability
Told in 14 blown-up Polaroids and a collage at PALO Gallery, the couple’s first exhibition showcases their tumultuous relationship in all its authentic glory
The Watermill Center’s annual summer benefit fused dance and artistic experimentation
The foundation’s centennial fundraising event hosted 20 provocative performances and installations and honored dance icon Lucinda Childs
The Shoptimist: Myths, markets, and the business model of hype
For her monthly column, fashion bard Maya Kotomori tells the tale of luxury’s fraught relationship to streetwear from ’90s Supreme to 2010s Odd Future to...
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
‘DEATHWORK’ is Kamixlo’s ode to the angels of noise
The Brixton-based DJ and producer discusses his sophomore album’s genre-rebelling mix of existential introspection and rave-ready beats
Roving literary event Casual Encounterz prioritizes the pen over the persona
Following stints in Mexico City and LA, writer Sammy Loren brings his reading series to NYC to highlight a mix of fiction heavy hitters and...
PPOW’s current exhibition ‘Airhead’ schools viewers on the art of education
Curated by Timmy Simonds and gallery director Eden Deering, the group show and performance program dissects the powers and possibilities of the classroom
‘National Anthem’ is a portal into the beauty of queer rural America
Named after his earlier monograph, the debut feature film by photographer Luke Gilford brings the rodeo stars of his book to the big screen
The end of cloud computing
Modern internet infrastructure hides in plain sight, reshaping our cities and social relationships with its bold promises of infinity
Joshua Serafin’s ‘VOID’ mines the elemental, ancestral, and transmigratory experience of their ancestry
Document joins the artist to discuss the speculative future realms of Indigenous Filipino spirituality in their most recent video installation and live performance
Benjamin Fredrickson’s ‘Wedgies’ turn schoolyard antics into ass-up uncanniness
Document joins the New York-based artist for a sweaty rooftop shoot ahead of the release of his latest photo book
Italian-made footwear by Scarosso meets American prep by Brooks Brothers in Florence
In the city’s 13th-century Palazzo Vecchio, the brands unveil an accessible-yet-opulent capsule collection
Best in show: Couture Week Fall 2024
Document’s Fashion Critic-at-Large Katharine Zarrella provides her self-proclaimed ‘couch couture’ dispatch surveying this last week in Paris
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
Wedding veils, pan flutes, and the perfect day for a picnic
A deep dive into ‘Picnic at Hanging Rock,’ the 1975 cult film that inspired everyone from Chloë Sevigny to Alexander McQueen and redefined Australian cinema
Ladyland Festival is Pride in a musical microcosm
Document goes backstage with the Brooklyn event’s queer icons, including Tinashe, Tokischa, Bob the Drag Queen, and many more
Larry Gus’s ‘Kerkis (Judas Tree)’ is playing games
The musician collaborates with director Matvey Fiks and screenwriter, lyricist, and Yorgos Lanthimos collaborator Efthymis Filippou in this absurdist romp through an Athenian chess club
Best in show: Men’s Spring/Summer 2025 and Women’s Resort Fashion Week—Paris
Document rounds up the top new collections shown this past week in Paris
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
Is a socialite just a scammer who succeeded?
In an interview with Harron Walker, the author Shola von Reinhold discusses the fabulosity of fabulation and whether some stories should be allowed to disappear
In ‘Queendom,’ authenticity is resistance
Agniia Galdanova’s documentary showcases art’s radical potential by following Russian performance artist Jenna Marvin
Fine Print: Poetry by any means necessary
For his monthly column, Drew Zeiba traverses New York City in search of performances beyond the page
Best in show: Men’s Spring/Summer 2025 and Women’s Resort Fashion Week—Milan
Document rounds up the top new collections shown this past week in Milan
Even undead, Joan Didion won’t back down
In this AI-facilitated conversation, ‘Mean Boys’ author Geoffrey Mak talks to the late essayist about addiction, critical audacity, and American literature’s CIA roots
The Shoptimist: It ain’t the same now
In a Juneteenth special of her monthly column, hotep-in-training Maya Kotomori puts on her Dr. Umar kufi to analyze the commodity fetish of hip-hop
Moncler Genius announces immersive new project for Shanghai Fashion Week
The brand promises a boundary-pushing experience to close out the season this October
Extreme Cashmere won’t compromise on making the perfect knit
Document visits the luxury knitwear label’s founder Saskia Dijkstra and brand director Wies Verhoofstad in their 17th-century Amsterdam HQ
Ben Werther asks if LARPing is the new readymade
War-zone fantasies meet suburban poetics in ‘When You Can No Longer Speak, Sing Me a Song,’ the artist’s solo exhibition at No Gallery
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
In the experimental play ‘4,000 Dollars,’ the streets of New York City are a fiscal fight club
Document joins playwright and director Georgica Pettus and producer Ashby Bland to discuss the art of numbers, spending money, and language systems
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
Bela Borsodi’s ‘Birth Life Death’ invents new dynamics for inanimate objects
On view at The Corner Gallery in upstate New York, the photographer’s mischievous exhibition creates existential language from the everyday
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
Seeing the unseen in the work of Vivian Maier
Kering Group’s Women in Motion initiative hosted a glitzy and cerebral celebration of the renowned photographer at Fotografiska
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
Drew Ducote’s ‘Rednecks with Paychecks’ showcases the torque of Texas’s underground motorist community
The New York-based artist mines the mud-slicked culture of his native Lone Star State in this photo story dedicated to the eponymous collective of offroaders
The mother and the monster in Catalina Ouyang’s ‘Trick’
Currently on view at Lyles and King, the sculptor’s latest show references everything from fox spirits to early 17th-century bridles in an installation as ethereal...
Sónar by Day, according to curators Antònia Folguera and Ikram Bouloum
Meet the pair responsible for Sónar Festival’s daytime multidisciplinary programming ahead of the annual Barcelona electronic music festival
Announcing Yadim, Document Journal’s Beauty Director
The boundary-pushing makeup artist sits down with Editor-in-Chief Nick Vogelson to discuss the the real-life inspiration behind his practice and the hopeful future of the...
Inside Franciacorta, Italy’s next bubbly vinicultural destination
Translating directly to ‘short France,’ the bucolic region’s complex sparkling wines highlight cultural and climactic change
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
Zegna Artistic Director Alessandro Sartori and actor Mads Mikkelsen imagine new narratives of creative responsibility
During Shanghai’s Villa Zegna event, the pair sit down with Editor-in-Chief Nick Vogelson to talk about fashion’s role in the cultural and natural worlds
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
Elisabetta Zangrandi creates her own art-historical canon
The Italian painter’s latest solo exhibition ‘Musée Imaginaire’ looks to past generations of women artists to stage a new present
Inside the New York Live Arts 2024 gala
Artists were front and center at the institution’s annual Live Ideas fundraising event, centered on the role of creativity in shaping our collective future
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
Lucila Safdie takes a blogger-era approach to the modern woman
The designer sits down with Document to discuss the films, time periods, and nuanced female characters that inspire her clothing
Mara Mckevitt’s cult of persona
The artist and filmmaker joins Whitney Mallett, founding editor of ‘The Whitney Review’ to discuss the artifice of authorship through her alter-ego Val
Gab Bois’s second drop with ‘Canapés’ is a citrusy welcome to spring
The artist’s latest release from her ready-to-wear collection features a deceptively real clementine heel, drawing on the fruit’s multitude of meanings
