
Talia Goddess’s collection of tracks that transcend language
On the heels of the release of ‘DOWN 2 EARTH,’ R&B’s rising star offers a playlist centering the beauty of the not-quite-finished

Garments to make you feel BETTTER
Ukrainian designer Julie Pelipas lets Document into her studio, detailing her label’s human-centric approach to the upcycling process

Miss Velvet rides the wave, rejuvenating classic rock
The LA-based singer-songwriter introduces ‘Traveler,’ employing mighty vocals to distill the emotion of starting anew

‘Making Their Mark’ crafts its own canon
Spanning decades and mediums, Komal Shah and Cecilia Alemani’s ongoing exhibition puts women artists in the limelight

Sam Youkilis’s ‘Somewhere’ charts the strangeness of the everyday
The photographer’s new book functions as a diary, tracing the contours between memory and reality

Designing the traveling art show
Writer and philosopher FT speaks with Magda Sawon of Postmasters Gallery, breaking down her decision to go nomadic after four decades in the game

The Latin American Fashion Awards are by and for the community
The first annual ceremony honored Latinx fashion industry greats, centering the work of the creatives often overlooked by the mainstream

Tracey Emin’s ‘Lovers Grave’ serializes the supine and the sentimental
On view at White Cube, the artist’s latest exhibition grapples with mortality and marks her return to New York

Natasha Stagg’s ‘Artless’ is the fringes of fandom
The book tunnels down the bottomless pit of celebrity, exploring how self-commodification diminishes star power by making stars of us all

Down the rabbit hole at the McKittrick Hotel
The Chelsea performance space put on an immersive Halloween production, inviting guests to ‘unleash the monster within’

The pen, the sword, and liberation
An introduction to Palestinian resistance poetry—a medium for the reclamation of a people’s history

Stephanie Dinkins finds the edges of identity and AI
In ‘Conversations with Bina48,’ the artist brushes with the future of algorithmic systems as often as her own humanity

In ‘Fingernails,’ uncertainty is painful
Christos Nikou’s new film imagines a not-too-distant dystopian future, where love can be certified with a one-off test

Cookie Mueller’s genius takes center stage at the Roxy
‘For People with Short Attention Spans’ drew a crowd of Downtown luminaries, celebrating the singular voice of the late-great raconteur

It’s Emma Rogue’s world
The vintage maverick speaks on what it took to build her brand—from Depop, to brick and mortar, to a future in the Metaverse

‘For the Love of Winter’ renders dressing for cold weather a creative act
Shot by New York creative duo Gus&Lo, Moncler’s holiday campaign merges comfort and style with high-tech design

Berlin Under A’s category-resistant Halloween extravaganza
The quadruple-bill performance saw Gemma Laurence, Jackson Crook, Foley, and the Racquets at their spookiest

Bookmarked: Everything the Document editors watched, read, ate, bought, and listened to in October
From the words of Mary Gatskill to reluctantly-acquired gorpcore goods, our team shares the very best of what we consumed this month

‘The Future Future’ is obsessed with words and their failures
Novelist Adam Thirwell joins Document to explain why 18th-century print culture and 21st-century social media discourse aren’t so different

‘C.Y.O.A.: The Suturing of Objects’ prizes process over product
Mast Books remolds the choose your own adventure genre in exhibition form

‘Two Refusals (Would We Recognize Ourselves Unbroken?)’ excavates cultural memory
Part documentary, part visual poem, Suneil Sanzgiri’s video installation at the Brooklyn Museum examines colonial resistance across India and Africa

Artists are poisoning AI image generators with Nightshade
The tool sabotages machine learning models from the inside, causing them to break in unprecedented ways

Taking Flyte with Will Taylor and Nick Hill
The UK-based duo celebrates its 10th anniversary with a self-titled album, preoccupied with songwriting above all else

Document Launches Fall/Winter 2023: Identity in Flux

Daytripping: Out of the bubble
In her biweekly column for Document, McKenzie Wark weekends outside of Brooklyn, finding more queerness and Pippa Garner’s Art Omi show

Chasing the ocean state of mind
Document boards the Explora I for its Naming Ceremony, as it embarks on its path to redeem the at-sea getaway

Inside the Neo-Decadent movement
How a cohort of international writers opposed the status quo, pulling from the endless subjectivity of culture to produce some of the century’s best literature

Chappell Roan brings unbridled queer emotion to Brooklyn Steel
‘The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess’ captured hearts in New York, moving at a clip through heartbreak and joy

Jockstrap doesn’t think twice
The London band joins Document to muse on how the making of a song is much like trying out a haircut

‘Witness to Nature’ celebrates humanity’s relationship to the world around it
The latest edition of the ‘Prada Reporter’ series sees the house partner with Magnum Photos, spotlighting inquisitive image-makers around the globe

The budding designers flipping the script on Tokyo style
Document spoke with 7 recent graduates on what drives them to live, work, and create in the Japanese capital

Tina Kukielski’s guide to the rich, varied films of ‘Art in the Twenty-First Century’
Ahead of the release of “Friends & Strangers,” Art21’s chief curator highlights some of the series’s most fascinating installments

Jesse Boykins III’s ‘New Growth’ explores musicianship and masculinity
The artist’s forthcoming album charts his evolution through relationships, looking inwards in the meantime

Marcus Maddox captures the everyday romance of the music scene
With his series ‘Pom Poms,’ the photographer offers intimate glimpses of the lives of artists and the crowd, across three American cities

How shadowbanning silences pro-Palestine voices
Amidst a global humanitarian crisis, Instagram users say they’re censored for speaking up

Puma Blue’s ‘Holy Waters’ wrestles with death before its time
The Croyden-raised artist’s sophomore album sprung from collaboration, forming a sonic landscape to meditate within

DAE is not a café
Document has a latte with Suea and Carol Song, the fashion-savvy founders of Cobble Hill’s coolest shop-restaurant-space

ECCO builds its ‘Modern Family’
To celebrate 60 years, the leather company threw an intimate dinner at Frieze London, kicking off a creative partnership with designer Natacha Ramsay-Levi

Running with kites
Photographer Edd Horder and stylist Lilia Toncheva O’Rourke practice Afghanistan’s national pastime, positioning play as an act of resistance

For Viviane Sassen, art is a canvas for hopes, wishes, and uncertainties
Spanning photography, collage, painting, and video, ‘Phosphor: Art & Fashion’ celebrates a chameleonic practice across three decades

Courtney Barnett searches for the dark side of paradise
The singer-songwriter took to Brooklyn’s National Sawdust for an experimental rendition of her latest record, ‘End Of The Day’

‘De cara al sol’ is a photographic odyssey
Diego Vourakis’s debut book is a call to adventure, painting a multifaceted picture of Cuba’s landscapes and its people

Inside Arca’s immersive takeover of the Park Avenue Armory
Billed as her most personal performance yet, ‘Mutant;Destrudo’ is a testament to transformation

Frame’s denim dreams come to fruition
Co-founder and creative director Erik Torstensson joined Document’s Nick Vogelson to discuss his brand’s 11th year, and the power in remaining curious

‘New Millennium Boyz’ is most profound at its most profane
Following the book’s release, Alex Kazemi joined Document to reflect on its mixed reception and consider the tragedies of teen boyhood

“Restaurants” isn’t really about restaurants anymore
Premiering with Document and featuring Moor Mother, this music video spawns from the first track off Richie Culver’s ‘Scream If You Don’t Exist’

‘Mood of the moment’ takes to Chloé’s archives, beginning with the vision of Gaby Aghion
The exhibition opened last week at the Jewish Museum, traversing the French house’s many eras and highlighting its easy elegance

The next wave of indie publishing
The founders of 5 independent publications join Document to discuss the past, present, and future of the little magazine

In ‘Love Me Again,’ Michella Bredahl portraits femininity
The photographer joins Document to elaborate on the making of her book and the making of her mindset
