The Document Agenda: “Solid light works”
Iran indulges its reptilian paranoia, machines are making art that's fooling the human eye, and book reviews, argues one critic, only seem to offer vapid...
Before any Roksanda show, it’s a cup of tea
Document asks designers about the backstage rituals that make the moments before the first look bearable.
Christopher Bailey leaves behind only multi-colored memories in his final Burberry collection
The designer created a life-size prism through which to view youth, LGBTQ issues, and his extraordinary run at the British house.
The Document Agenda: “I think everybody should like everybody”
Cape Town holds off its water crisis, for now, intimate Andy Warhol recordings recently unearthed, and one of the world's largest publishing CEOs says Ebooks...
The Document Agenda: “How many times can you continue knocking on a closed door?”
Iran's first and only female conductor on the country's political climate, Sotheby's helps you visual your taste in art, and is that really Trump tweeting?
The unfinished business of William Eggleston’s Los Alamos
The photographer's pursuit of American restlessness in Los Alamos is a collection of images suspicious of finality. It opens at The Metropolitan Museum of Art...
The Document Agenda: “An appropriate place for a bit of end-of-the-world hedonism”
Dubai relaunches a debauched luxury development, researchers uncover new secrets about Picasso's artistic practice, and scientists now understand the need for sleep better than ever.
The Antarctic’s icy spell becomes a tourism fantasy
The world's most inhospitable continent may be the next hospitality hot spot.
Lucid dreaming backstage with Sies Marjan
Sies Marjan and Sander Lak take Document inside of their varicolored fantasy
The Document Agenda: “A bridge between the minuscule quantum world and our macroscopic reality”
Japan's stubborn immigration policies, the story behind the science photo of the year, and volcanic ash might be material of the future.
The Document Agenda: “They could not escape time’s eraser”
The Tea Party's racialized language studied, Tech CEOs are making an end-times retreat in New Zealand, and avant-garde artist Jef Geys died at 83.
Andreas Laszlo Konrath on his photo “Untitled (Joe #11, Braces 1)”
Contact Sheet is Document's newest weekly installment on the story behind the images shaping our visual culture.
Tempting fate backstage with Vaquera
The New York label's FW18 extravaganza was equal parts Sin City and Sunday morning.
The Document Agenda: “A new way to participate in the growing experience”
The very vocal future of hydroponics, Silvo Berlusconi's animal instincts are political, and a visual study of cultural hegemony.
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The Document Agenda: “The biggest impact to the landscape is human activity”
Man-made climate change is measure in Kenya, Wolfgang Tillmans on his latest EP.
On Loan: Loose change from the enlightenment
This week, an exploration of the British Museum's archives yields a copper coin tells the story of England's ascent from the dark ages.
The Document Agenda: “Blooming, buzzing confusion”
Unseen beauty at the bottom of the Antarctic, Netflix's film still methodology, and the story of a mysterious radio station.
The Document Agenda: “We need more light”
Researchers make a case for 'more light,' Chinese police break out the facial surveillance glasses, and the truth about women in the U.K,'s grime scene.
The Document Agenda: “An approach that is better aware of uncertainty is more reliable”
Uncertainty might help with making better decisions, a Vantablack house is built for the Winter Olympics, those who contemplate the future are better at waiting.
Raf Simons has the prescription for ‘youth in motion’
The Belgian designer fused nods to rave culture and Flemish feasts, while acknowledging the deep influences of New York City culture in his FW18 presentation.
Ryker Allen looks at the upcoming models of New York Fashion Week Men’s
Seeing the new look of the next generation of models at New York Men's Fashion Week.
The Document Agenda: “Time is not at all something that is an immutable truth”
Director Agnes Varda sends the Academy of Motion Pictures a cut-out of her face, the first Britons may have actually been black, and Facebook’s algorithms...
The Document Agenda: “Like reality, but distorted”
Youtube algorithms are biased, traffic noise can disrupt you on the molecular level, and healthy food tastes better when it looks better.
The ‘Soul of a Nation’ comes to a small corner of America’s heartland
The groundbreaking Tate Modern show comes, of all places, to the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Arkansas
The cryptocurrency revolution begins to fray
Is one of the most-hyped advancements in technology beginning to wreak havoc?
Museums are gradually practicing the art of embracing women’s stories
Museums in the UK are removing stereotypical representations of the female form and replacing them with stories of female empowerment
The Vatican is looking to capitalize on Andy Warhol’s closeted Catholicism
A retrospective of the artist's "spiritual works" will be featured in a joint exhibition by the Vatican and The Andy Warhol Museum in 2019
PFW18: Viktor & Rolf’s couture is a meticulous cultural commentary
The Dutch "fashion artists" can't just do style for style's sake
Hobby Lobby can’t stop smuggling Mesopotamian artifacts
The Justice Department has requested another 245 artifacts smuggled out of Iraq
The Dutch Fashion Police are scanning the streets for Gucci and Rolex
Police in Rotterdam will soon be on the hunt for “Big Rolexes" and "Gucci jackets"
The epidemic ravaging the developed world? Loneliness.
Social atomization, separated families and lack of physical contact between people are creating a spike of loneliness across the U.S. and U.K.
The #resistance might be great for your career says study
Civic engagement is, unsurprisingly, a good thing for individuals
FW18: Luxury is the go with Fendi’s accessories for men
It's fitting considering the fashion house started as an accessories boutique back in 1918
Cape Town is at risk of running out of water by April
South Africa's second-largest city has nearly drained its reservoirs
Algorithms could aid in the successful integration of refugees
Researchers have produced an algorithm that processes multiple factors to formalize the perfect match between a migrant and a location
German linguistics declare ‘alternative facts’ as the most offensive word of the year
It's the first time an American-born term has won the dubious honor
New York City reviews its “symbols of hate,” removes only one
The statue of Dr. J. Marion Sims will be relocated to Green-Wood Cemetery
Massimo Giorgetti and MSGM are Italian fashion for a new generation
"It’s fashion, but it’s important that it is still believable."
The latest health trend for affluent Americans is tracking sleep
And no one can say why they're doing it
CVS bans the airbrush on its beauty products
And introduces the "beauty mark" for brands that retouch
South Korea Wants to Ban Bitcoin Trading Because It’s a Lot Like Gambling
The regulatory move would be among the first of its kind
The Country’s Top Museum Curators Have Very Little to Say About the Current Political Climate
Despite using a lot of words
LFWM 2018: Edward Crutchley Isn’t a Menswear Company
Almost all of the British designer's latest collection is for everyone
Gucci Opens a Restaurant in the Latest Example of Fashion’s Enduring Obsession With Food
Haute couture meets haute cuisine
LFWM 2018: Cottweiler Wants to Make Sportswear to Obsess Over
"Sportswear has just always been something to do sport in and not something to look at and to touch."
Job Automation Might Cut Wages For a Lot of New Yorkers
A report estimates that $92 billion could be cut
The NYPD is Attempting to Obtain the ‘Entire Digital History’ of a Minor
The department has requested contacts, e-mails, history and other digital documentation
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