Byredo’s Ben Gorham on making ‘Elevator Music’ with Virgil Abloh
The forward-thinking perfumer’s latest collaboration with the Off-White founder is anything but forgettable.
Your favorite pop song might be depressed
After analyzing more than 500,000 pop songs, researchers have found that the most popular music has become a total bummer in the last 30 years.
Tbilisi’s clubgoers protest for open culture despite strict drug laws and white nationalists
Thousands of Georgian techno fans gathered in downtown Tbilisi this week to protest armed crackdowns on two of city’s most vibrant nightclubs.
Another reminder that marijuana arrests in NYC are still (extremely) racially biased
Across the city, black and hispanic people are arrested for low-level marijuana offenses at a rate eight times higher than white people according to a...
The dissident art of ‘cruising’ gets a pavilion at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale
Champagne and poppers will be served at the May 24th opening of Spazio Punch's "Cruising Pavilion."
Is a film festival sponsored by the Israeli government an incident of ‘art-washing?’
Document talks with a London-based filmmaker and activist, who is one of 30 industry professionals calling for the boycott of The London Israel Film and...
Christopher Kane’s propensity for playful subversion lands at your feet
Known for collaborations with Alexander McQueen and Vivienne Westwood, The Rug Company now takes on Christopher Kane’s signature prints.
Jean-Michel Basquiat’s ‘Flesh and Spirit’ is at the center of an art family’s legal feud
As Sotheby's prepares to auction the virtually unseen Basquiat piece next week for an estimated $30 million, a disinherited art collector is accusing the auction...
An exhibit celebrating fashion’s fascination with ‘Heavenly Bodies’
The Met's 2018 Costume Institute exhibition, “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination,” explores the relationship between fashion and Catholicism.
Uber’s self-driving car purposefully ignored the pedestrian it fatally struck
The company's flawed programming extends beyond the self-driving program and into deep-set racial bias, as well, drivers claim.
How Prada’s music producer Frédéric Sanchez landed on 90s classics for their 2019 Resort show
The music producer crafted a show soundtrack inspired by timelessness and Daft Punk for Prada's 2019 Resort show.
Curating the curator who “didn’t buy the bullshit” of the art world
This past weekend, Frieze New York’s first curated section celebrated the legendary curator Hudson, whose lone vision shaped the contemporary art world as we know...
Ermenegildo Zegna’s visionary entrance into ready-to-wear gets the retrospective treatment
‘Uomini All'Italiana 1968’ marks five decades since the iconic Italian label’s foray into prêt-à-porter—at the expansive tipping point for personal expression in cultures across the globe.
The first day of Frieze was a furnace, making collectors cranky
Record heat hits Frieze New York, affecting not just the mood of fairgoers, but sales as well.
Jordan Nassar is delicately weaving a new vision into one of Palestine’s cultural legacies
The Palestinian-American artist discusses the cultural weft of his evocative handmade embroidery—featured, this weekend, in Frame at Frieze New York.
Big books and bigger sticker prices are for big boys, only, researchers conclude
An analysis of over 2 million books published between 2002 and 2012 by researchers at the City University of New York finds that publishing, after...
Smuggled into Claire Fontaine’s ‘Untitled (Tennis Ball Sculpture)’
What Document overheard at the artist collective’s opening at Century Pictures.
A collective that documents global conflict are now up for the Turner Prize
The nomination of London-based Forensic Architecture is a watershed moment for Britain's most prestigious art prize.
Photographer Sanlé Sory made stars out of the youth of Burkina Faso in the 1960s
Document talks with the 75-year-old photographer following the opening of his first American exhibition at Yossi Milo Gallery in New York.
It took six months and 18 sexual assault allegations for the Swedish Academy to confront its own #MeToo crisis
The elite body responsible for awarding the Nobel Prize in Literature is handling its own sexual misconduct crisis more poorly than you could imagine.
Wildlife photography has a surprisingly sketchy underbelly
After Britain’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year was found to have staged his award-winning image, other photographers are coming out with their own stories of...
Culture can cure cities, but it can plague them, too
Researchers at Nokia Bell Labs have created the first cultural analytics report linking culture capital with urban growth—and gentrification.
A closer look at Ai Weiwei’s selfie with the leader of Germany’s anti-immigrant party
The Chinese-born dissident artist has long used social media as an artistic medium, so how are we to interpret his recent selfie with one of...
Why has South Korea suddenly paused the K-Pop blaring across the DMZ?
South Korea's decades-long aural assault on North Korea has suddenly gone quiet.
A warm London night to celebrate the Spring/Summer 2018 issue with MatchesFashion.com
Document teamed up with MatchesFashion.com to toast the launch of the new issue at the ICA in London.
Michael Pinsky’s latest installation, ‘Pollution Pods,’ deemed too toxic for the public
The artist captured air samples from major cities across the globe in his latest installation, which has been deemed unfit for public exposure.
Sofia Coppola on the ‘universal’ girlhood she captured in ‘The Virgin Suicides’ and on being rediscovered by a new generation
The Oscar-winning director spoke with Document about the Criterion Collection release of her debut film.
First memorial to victims of racial terror opens in Alabama
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice makes steps to right the wrongs of the American South.
The costs of trying to touch the sky
The question of building skyscrapers in dense urban areas is one we should be asking.
British prosectors can’t tell the difference between art and ‘revenge porn’
But at least the artwork in question earned a top prize.
Cynthia Nixon is pulling Andrew Cuomo’s strings
After the actress-turned-gubernatorial hopeful announced her proposal to legalize marijuana, last week, guess who followed suit?
Amy Arbus on her photo ‘Julio Q’
'In those days, it was so much fun to take pictures of people because they were never suspicious. They were just honored.'
Who’s that in the garden?
The latest monograph from Aperture, The Photographer in the Garden, is a simple homage to the garden's delicate perfection.
Researchers are measuring your ego’s development by combing through 25 years worth of human language
Researchers at Florida Atlantic University discovered that ego-centric words are used less as humans age.
The doors of the Chelsea Hotel are being auctioned to support the homeless
Auction house Guernsey's is offering bidders the bedroom doors the once contained Janis Joplin, Leonard Cohen, Jimi Hendrix, and Humphrey Bogart.
Making sense of YouTube’s creepy relationship with kids
The platform is increasingly targeting pre-teens with a total disregard for privacy.
“What is an artist’s responsibility?” Introducing Document S/S 2018
With the release of Document No. 12, our Editor-in-Chief & Creative Director Nick Vogelson looks at how the changing of the artist's role in culture...
The UK and Russia are throwing unprecedented amounts of literary shade at each other
Watch out, Sherlock.
How Grindr and Facebook are networking shame
The dangers of innocuous data have never been more visible until now.
Five excerpts from the hunky and demonic Y.A. remake of Dorian Gray
'I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die.'
The Oxford English Dictionary essentially created a new word for gender nonconformity
Trans* can be pronounced three different ways and represents up to four different gender variances.
The delirious diary: Art Basel in Hong Kong
At the art world's biggest party in Asia, blue-chip gallery David Zwirner unveiled new work by Wolfgang Tillmans, while luxury brands such as Loro Piana,...
Joel Sternfeld on his photo ‘After A Flash Flood, Rancho Mirage’
'This photo of the flash flood in Rancho Mirage evokes all of the disasters that are going to happen because of extreme weather. I wish...
Voyaging into Lucy Dodd’s magical family space
What Document overheard on the artist's latest opening at David Lewis Gallery.
North Korea is waging a war against its most precious pastime: karaoke
Kim Jong-un's government is seizing all "anti-socialist" sing-along machines.
Why does the Trump administration want the Census citizenship question?
Total erasure of immigrant communities.
Land degradation is the panic-button environmental issue that will affect millions across the globe
Up to 3.2 billion people are already at risk due to overfarming, mining, and urban infrastructures.
Why are the attacks on the march for our lives so laughable?
Conservative America is in a panic.
A New York City bill aims to protect a worker’s right to ‘disconnect’
A bill filed by City Councilman Rafael L. Espinal would require companies with more than ten employees to refrain from off-hour communications.
