Telfar’s ‘post-identity’ aesthetic emerges on an East River helipad
A little rain couldn't bring down the energy at Telfar Clemens's performance-filled Spring/Summer 2019 show.
Eckhaus Latta brings its inner circle to Bushwick for Spring/Summer 2019
Document takes a look at Eckhaus Latta's Spring/Summer 2019 collection, presented with the sounds of a baby orchestra.
London Fashion Week goes fur free
The British Fashion Council announced that this September’s London Fashion Week will not have any animal fur on the runway.
Browns finds its kindred spirit in Fred Segal
The fabled London retailer partnered with iconic Los Angeles fashion destination Fred Segal for a pop-up shop featuring a number of emerging designers.
Russian scientists speed up the internet
A group of Russian scientists, in partnership with an American university, created an algorithm that can increase internet speeds by one-and-a-half times.
Artist Luke Turner withdraws from Athens Biennale over heated Twitter fiasco
The co-founder of the #HeWillNotDivideUs roaming art project got into an intense Twitter battle with artist Daniel Keller, who defended artist Deanna Havas liking a...
Recalling the big hair and even bigger personalities of Wigstock
Linda Simpson, John Kelly, Lypsinka, and Peter Zaremba of The Fleshtones reminisce about their fondest moments of the annual New York drag celebration.
London Design Fair names plastic its Material of the Year
Select designers will tackle plastic, which is lauded for its durability but condemned due to it's pollutant nature, at the London Design Fair.
Global warming causes insects to eat more crops
A new paper discovered that global warming is causing the metabolic rates of insects to rocket, resulting in yet more crop devastation.
Detroit public schools bring in bottled water to combat contamination
Detroit officials say the city's water supply is okay, and that they think the problem stems with the schools' aging infrastructure.
What does AI-generated art look like?
An exhibition at Nature Morte in New Dehli showcases the artwork generated not by human hand, but by artificial intelligence.
Shanel Campbell is on the verge
Even though she only just recently graduated from Parsons, Solange and Issa Rae are already among the fashion designer's celebrity admirers.
Hermès and Pierre Charpin join forces for La Serpentine
The French designer and artist collaborated with Hermès to create window displays, scarves, and tabletop items.
Who is Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky?
Google celebrates the 155th birthday of Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, the Russian photographer and chemist who documented the Russian Empire.
How Hungary’s far-right government is curtailing culture
Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban’s far-right party has banned skyscrapers, wants to withdraw funding for gender studies from a university, and even criticized a Frida Kahlo...
Looking back at the ‘Beautiful Losers’
A new exhibition at The Hole celebrates the 10th anniversary of the documentary Beautiful Losers, which celebrated the 'broke artists' of New York's downtown scene...
Not just relegated to politics, Russian bots are now undermining vaccines
A new piece of research from George Washington University shows that social media bots and Russian trolls have also been used to spread false information...
And now, a geographic breakdown of America’s sexism
A new survey on sexist attitudes across the U.S. analyzes misogyny's economic toll.
One artist brings the Acne Studios Manhattan Sneaker on a journey through the ’90s
"Shoes are the first thing I look at when meeting someone."
UNC students are making history, not erasing it, after toppling Confederate monument
This week, students at the University of North Carolina toppled Silent Sam, a Confederate statue that has stood since 1913.
An authentic look at people with their very own Birkenstocks
The brand tapped Jack Davison to shoot Ryan McGinley, Thomas Südhof, Romany Pajdak and more with their beloved Birkenstocks.
France wants to end snobbery, democratize culture, through multimillion-dollar app
The $496-million-a-year plan will target 10,000 18-year-olds, giving them €500 ($577) in credit to spend in the app.
Rapper Killer Mike is the newest board member of Atlanta’s High Museum
The rapper and social activist is one of three fresh faces shaking things up at the High Museum of Art.
Nudists flock the Palais de Tokyo
One of Paris’s most prestigious contemporary art collections opened its doors for the first time to a very marginalized group of culture lovers.
Do something different: Telfar and FAKA bring fashion and music to the Serpentine Pavilion
South African performance art duo FAKA unleashed a soulful performance at Serpentine Galleries in Telfar's spring 2019 collection.
Science attempts to explain why the rich and powerful often behave like swine
Cheating, stealing, lying, and environmental disrespect are habits shared most exclusively to the wealthiest social groups, according to new research.
The UK’s visa problems are crippling the country’s cultural scene
Tightening immigration restrictions for artists seeking to enter the UK are affecting racial and religious minorities.
The photographer who made the biggest names of the 20th century beautiful
Portraits of Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, and Emperor Charles I of Austria taken by Dora Kallmus, or d’Ora, are the subject of an exhibition at...
Vegans be wary: A plant-based diet won’t be viable in the future
Researchers from six American universities discovered that a future of living solely off the land isn’t the most efficient way of farming.
Belgium fights back against Facebook’s problem with Old Master nudes
The Flemish Tourism Board created a video in response to Facebook censoring nude works by Paul Rubens from the Maison de Rubens in Antwerp.
Harley Weir directs a new A.P.C. film starring it-model Paul Hameline
Are the words uttered by models-cum-actors Hameline, Sohyun Jung and Aida Blue in Harley Weir's A.P.C. film a Lettrist poem or random musings?
Watch Document dance with lifestyle label 69 through its new exhibition at MOCA Los Angeles
With an anonymous designer at the helm, non-gender, non-demographic label 69 resolves its own identity crisis in a show at the L.A. museum.
Eckhaus Latta tests the boundaries between fashion, art and commerce at The Whitney
Eckhaus Latta, the cult fashion label by Mike Eckhaus and Zoe Latta, is the subject of The Whitney's first fashion-focused exhibition since 1997.
Ai Weiwei’s studio demolished in wave of destruction against Beijing’s contemporary art community
Beijing authorities destroyed Ai Weiwei's studio without warning last Friday, three years after the artist relocated from China to Berlin.
The case for a museum director who isn’t white or male
Did the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles make the right decision in appointing Klaus Biesenbach as its new director?
Project depicting names of drowned refugees mysteriously disappears from Liverpool Biennial
The List by Turkish artist Banu Cennetoğlu has not been seen since last Saturday when it was removed from a new development in Liverpool’s Chinatown.
Why is our criminal justice system still failing to help the LGBT community?
A study at the University of California at San Francisco discovered that sexual minority offenders are more likely to get stuck in the system.
A new tome traces Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv’s 60 years in logo design
The iconic design firm Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv is responsible for the most memorable American logos, from the NBC peacock to the Chase Bank...
20 states sue Donald Trump to curtail bizarre 3D-printed gun u-turn
Washington state attorney general Bob Ferguson announced in a federal lawsuit that downloadable weapons are a serious national security threat.
The ghosts of historical lynchings still walk among us
A new study in the "Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities" examines the effect of lynchings from 1877 to 1950 on present-day death rates.
Robert Wilson remembers the time Pierre Bergé introduced him to French president François Mitterand
The experimental theater director Robert Wilson honored the late Yves Saint Laurent co-founder Pierre Bergé at The 25th Annual Watermill Center Summer Benefit & Auction.
The Missoni family invites you to enjoy their gnocchi verdi
Francesco Maccapani Missoni collected his family recipes for The Missoni Family Cookbook, published by Assouline.
The child separation crisis at the border is far from over
Even with today's deadline to unify refugee children with their parents.
Most of the female writers you know have experienced sexual harassment
A survey conducted by Writer’s Guild of America West says that sixty-four percent of female writers have experienced sexual harassment at least once in their...
How a bouquet of flowers from Andy Warhol started Peter Marino’s art collection
'To Peter, Andy Warhol.'
Colorblind in a heatwave
Japan is applying its progressive design ethos to heatmaps that can be visible to those with colorblindness.
Entering the Hermès universe, Avec Elle
As Hermès showcased its Fall/Winter 2018 collection with an immersive exhibition at the National Art Center of Tokyo, Document sat down with artistic director Bali Barret.
Another well-researched blow to the moral panic surrounding same-sex parenting
A quarter of a decade since the National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study began researchers can finally reveal that good parenting has nothing to do with sexuality.
Trump’s silence on American arts is deafening
With nine months until the Venice Biennale, the State Department has yet to announce a U.S. artist.
