Document S/S 2015: “Come Here, Look Back, Move Forward”*
When we begin each new issue of Document Journal, we are reacting not only to our previous issues, of course, and to the season in...
Lynn Hershman Leeson: Origins of the Species
Since the late '90s, the American artist and filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson has gained international acclaim for her feminist science-fiction movies starring Tilda Swinton, such...
“Legs Are Not Doors” A Film for Proenza Schouler by Harley Weir
Inspired by “Real Sex” and “Taxi Cab Confessions”—idiosyncratic muses and friends share fleeting thoughts and gazes while wearing the Proenza Schouler Spring/Summer 2015 collection. Have...
Chandeliers Bloom at the New York Botanical Gardens
The annual Orchid show at the New York Botanical Garden is a sight to be seen, housed in the atriums of the 250 acre property....
Côte&Ciel Expands Into Luxury Leather Handbags With the Alias Collection
After more five years of making subtly sculpted bags from technical fabrics, Côte&Ciel, led by creative director Stephan Wembacher, is launching a division of luxury leather...
Document Diary: Slow Factory’s Céline Semaan on Fashion, Technology, and Connectedness
The intersection of design, arts, culture, and technology has been the subject of many think pieces, op-eds, and editorials, but musing on it is different...
“The Smell of Us”—A Collaboration with Larry Clark and J.W.Anderson
Document Journal invites you to celebrate The Smell of Us at collaborative book between Larry Clark and J.W.Anderson with a special performance by reVolt (thisisnotrevolt)....
“Monuments of the Memory” at the Refectory
Last week, Le Livre Art Publishing celebrated the release of its second project, Monuments of the Memory at The Refectory at the High Line Hotel in New York. Monuments is a...
Master Perfumer Blaise Mautin on Visvim’s 18th Century Scent
Since 2001, Japanese brand Visvim has been exploring the art of manufacturing, weaving cloth from rare threads colored with natural dyes, and building footwear that...
Document’s Reads: Our favorite books from the past year
As Fashion Week rapidly approaches, we’ve been looking back at some of our favorite inspirational books, novels and artist monographs of the past year for...
A Visit to the Los Angeles Art Book Fair
This past weekend marked the third installment of the Los Angeles Art Book Fair, organized by New York’s Printed Matter. Over 250 exhibitors from around...
Ryan McNamara and Curator Piper Marshall on Performance Art in Museums and McNamara’s New Show
Last Thursday, Mary Boone Gallery opened Gently Used, an exhibition of new works by Ryan McNamara. Known for his site-specific performances, McNamara has produced new...
PROJECT’s Must-Know Japanese Menswear Imports
Independent of fashion week, though not wholly unrelated, tradeshows allow brands to interact with store buyers on a more direct and intimate level. PROJECT, a...
John Waters on Justin Bieber, Ansel Adams, and His New Show
This Friday, John Waters presents his third solo show at Marianne Boesky’s 24th-Street gallery, John Waters: Beverly Hills John. The show, filled with Water’s signature...
Document and Svedka Fête F/W 2014 Issue and the Web Launch
Document and Svedka celebrated the holiday season, the relaunch of its website, and its fifth installment with a party at New York’s Gilded Lily—with help...
Learn to Read Art: A History of Printed Matter
The Shandaken Project Three-Year Retrospective
Document Dispatch: Art Basel Miami
Document heads down to Art Basel Miami with photographer Miles Ladin. Art is fashion and fashion is art…and it all converges in Miami during this...
Bjarne Melgaard’s Art Basel Survival Guide
Bjarne Melgaard shares his Art Basel Miami survival guide.
Day With(out) Art
December 1st marks the 25th anniversary of Day With(out) Art, a program initiated by Visual AIDS in 1989 as a day of action and remembrance...
Anne Collier—woman with a camera
The artist's first museum survey, organized by the MCA Chicago, highlights her unique contribution to 21st-century art while looking to the visual culture of the...
Katherine Hubbard at Capricious 88
The provisional state of Utah was once known as Deseret, a pretty name from the Book of Mormon to describe a semi-autonomous territory that never...
Poetics in Plaster: Thomas Houseago’s “Moun Room” at Hauser & Wirth
Hauser & Wirth's new installation by Thomas Houseago, “Moun Room,” is immediately arresting, drawing us into a 40,000 square-foot, sky-lit hangar. Reminiscent of visual labyrinths...
How AMMA Studio creates ‘Objects of Desire’ from everyday objects
AMMA Studio takes the ordinary—cement, coffee, salt, metal, wood—and transforms these materials into enduring objects that merge sculpture with design, featured in Document's Fall/Winter 2014...
HalloQueens With MoMA/PS1 and Susanne Bartsch
To be able to photograph the most beautiful people at HalloQueens with Susanne Bartsch and MoMA/PS1 was such a special moment. Looking through my lens...
Sturtevant’s Double Trouble
Artist Sturtevant challenged the notions of authorship by making versions of the works of contemporaries including Andy Warhol, James Rosenquist, Jasper Johns, and Marcel Duchamp....
Store Opening: A.P.C. Melrose Place
Last week, A.P.C. feted the launch of its new Melrose Place flagship with a party for guests that include Kanye West, Waris Ahluwalia, and Jean...
Doll Parts: Hilton Als Recalls Some of His Most Poignant Memories of Artist Greer Lankton
I’m trying to remember the specifics of Greer, the way her legs and arms moved in her summer dresses. Because that’s the season I associate...
Between the Lines: The Hermès Nautilus Pen
Hermès launched the latest addition to its writing instruments series, the Nautilus pen, at the fashion house’s Madison Avenue flagship store last week. Attendees—including Fern...
Modelogue: Georgia Hilmer’s Fashion Month, Part Seven
Georgia Hilmer studies literature and writing at N.Y.U.’s Gallatin School, models, and makes photographs.
Cookie Mueller Returns
Cookie Mueller must come back. Star of an underground art circuit that insisted, and still insists, that bad taste is the only taste worth having,...
Exclusive Excerpt—“Track Star” by Andrew Durbin
Andrew Durbin's new book Mature Themes freely shifts between deep thoughts on the film Clueless or pop star Katy Perry to discussions on the theorist...
Modelogue: Georgia Hilmer’s Fashion Month, Part Six
Georgia Hilmer studies literature and writing at N.Y.U.’s Gallatin School, models, and makes photographs.
Modelogue: Georgia Hilmer’s Fashion Month, Part Five
Georgia Hilmer studies literature and writing at N.Y.U.’s Gallatin School, models, and makes photographs.Georgia Hilmer studies literature and writing at N.Y.U.’s Gallatin School, models, and...
Modelogue: Georgia Hilmer’s Fashion Month, Part Four
Georgia Hilmer studies literature and writing at N.Y.U.’s Gallatin School, models, and makes photographs.
From the Editors—F/W 2014
Document No. 5 is a special issue, the marker of our second anniversary. We’ve asked our amazing contributors to celebrate the journey we’ve been sharing...
Modelogue: Georgia Hilmer’s Fashion Month, Part Three
Georgia Hilmer studies literature and writing at N.Y.U.’s Gallatin School, models, and makes photographs.
Modelogue: Georgia Hilmer’s Fashion Month, Part Two
Georgia Hilmer studies literature and writing at N.Y.U.’s Gallatin School, models, and makes photographs.
Georgia Hilmer’s Fashion Month, Part One
Georgia Hilmer studies literature and writing at N.Y.U.’s Gallatin School, models, and makes photographs.
Modelogue: Georgia Hilmer’s Fashion Month, Part One
Georgia Hilmer studies literature and writing at N.Y.U.’s Gallatin School, models, and makes photographs.
A first by Cartier—The Diver Watch, Calibre de Cartier
Embracing extreme conditions, Cartier introduces its first ever Dive watch, matched to withstand up to 300 meters of water while still maintaining its sleek and...
The Saint Laurent Toile Monogram
Every iconic luxury house, holds a unique signature or historic monogrammed trademark that becomes synonymous with the brand over the many years. In 1961, artist...
“An L.A. Sort of Place”—Paul Jasmin at Casa de Costa
While Paul Jasmin himself is a Montana native, his work featured in Casa de Costa’s exhibition, An L.A. Sort of Place, pays homage to the...
Repossi’s White Noise Permeates New York’s Dover Street Market
At a glance, Repossi’s White Noise collection looks like a wearable audio-spectrum readout, though Corbusian architecture and Alexander Calder’s mobiles were also points of reference.
Henzel Studio, the artisan rug manufacturer that counts Helmut Lang and Mickalene Thomas among its collaborators
The company asked curator Joakim Andreasson to select 12 contemporary artists to provide radical new designs to change their objets from interior design into works of...
Artist Pierre Soulages crafts post-war reflections in black
One of the most well-regarded French artists of his time staged his first state-side retrospective in 2014. A selection of these artworks featured in Document's...
Exclusive Video—“White Paintings” by Collier Schorr
In Collier Schorr’s exclusive video, White Paintings, the artist explores the relationship between black and white stills with color motion film. The result is a...
An Art Showdown at Paramount Ranch
During the last weekend in January, while visitors flocked to Printed Matter's LA Art Book Fair downtown, more adventurous and in-the-know art lovers made the...
Preview Photographer Chad Pitman’s debut book, “Valley Pines”
Preview Photographer Chad Pitman's debut book, "Valley Pines"
