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
Shallowhalo’s “Decision of a Flower” bottles young love’s sweet uncertainty
Document premieres the music video to the electronic duo’s latest single, ahead of the release of their EP ‘Connection’
Takeshi Matsumoto performs for the future
The dancer and 7Circles founder speaks on the power of movement, the practice of origami, and his recent collaboration with Joel Kerr featuring Issey Miyake...
le PÈRE’s flagship store feels more like a studio
Document takes a tour of Ryan Wright’s new retail space, where sports garb collides with elevated menswear and creativity runs rampant
Time is spherical in ‘Gucci Cosmos’
In an opulent retrospective at 180 The Strand, the legacy Italian label places its namesake at the center of its orbit
Moving into the fold with Issey Miyake
Director Joel Kerr and stylist Alexandra Bickerdike joined forces with dance collective 7Circles, producing a short that builds upon the label’s ties to origami
Daytripping: Publication day
In her biweekly column for Document, McKenzie Wark ponders the problem of art in the age of content
Low Classic carries Seoul’s spirit to Paris Fashion Week
Myoungsin Lee and Jinsun Park delivered a balanced Spring/Summer 2024 collection, crafting modular pieces both contemporary and paradigmatic
Katharina Kaminski fashions beings from fire and clay
At Paris’s Sainte Anne Gallery, ‘Womb’ examines the sculptor’s intersex identity, offering up the body as a well of creativity
Greer Lankton’s sketchbook diagrams the construction of a self
Primary Information’s latest release immortalizes a month in the trailblazing artist’s life—an addendum to her legacy that leaps off the page
The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art’s Fall Gala was a celebration of queer creativity
ANOHNI, Chanel Lopez, Catherine Opie were the soirées guests of honor, awarded for their commitments to art, advocacy, and community
Rocket’s sundown soundtrack
In anticipation of their upcoming EP ‘Versions of You,’ the LA-based alt-rock band offers Document a list of their favorite tracks
Behind the scenes at Anfisa Letyago’s unmissable ARC Festival set
The Italian DJ took Chicago by storm, performing alongside icons on house music’s most commanding stage
Ben Fama’s ‘If I Close My Eyes’ pits two survivors against the world
The novel traces the aftermath of a mass shooting at a Kim Kardashian book signing, blending absurd structures with emotional authenticity
It’s not a midlife crisis if you live forever
Tech billionaire Bryan Johnson’s quest for eternal youth points at the folly of the longevity industry, packaging fear of aging as scientific progress
Oji Haynes’s photographs preserve a language of Black life
With ‘Drylongso,’ the artist leans into details, honing in on the fantastical elements of his reality
Bloom’s kinky chatbots want to expand your sexual horizons
The erotic audio company recently launched a series of AI-powered characters intent on one thing: fulfilling your deepest desires
