āSurviving the Dreamā with FIDLAR
...even though none of us really surf or skate. [Laughs]. I mean, Zac surfs, but. Zoey: Well, Max can’t, so. [Laughs]. Max: I can kickflip...
Experimental pop duo NEW YORKās ārapstar*ā maintains an artful anonymity
...‘Let’s start a band.’ We’re best friends anyways. And then this was just, like, fun. Gretchen: It is fun. We’re taking it seriously, but we’re...
Maya Man and Sotce usher in a new generation of internet artists
...Sofi: Maya, in your essay, ‘The Artist is Online,’ you asked, ‘How might we reconcile with the structures of centralized selfhood that a distributed, internet-based...
Darryl Bell brought his Midwestern barbecue heritage to Robert Glasperās The Black Radio Experience music festival
...be? What do I need to study?’ I knew, and I would actually tell everyone, ‘I’m gonna be a chef.’ And everything just lined up....
The Shoptimist Speaks: Mati Hays of House of Iconica
...watch me. My boyfriend’s like, ‘Well, you’re the face of the brand. You’re the girl, and you’re showing other women how to do it.’ Maya:...
Inside Pete Rockās musical dictionary
...Coast rap sound of the ’90s. Known best for his fluid beats and encyclopedic music knowledge, a Pete Rock cut guarantees timelessness—“They Reminisce Over Your...
Fine Print: āThe weirder and freakier the betterā
...cute, fits a book, and isn’t, like, $2,500. I’m still working on that precise nexus. Layla: Let us know when you find that. Sophia: Yeah,...
Enrique Garcia exposes the serpentine mechanics of contemporary life
...A 170-kilometer-long, straight, um, line, that will be a 200-meter-wide, 500-meter-tall fully mirrored prism with schools, health clinics, and luxury stores—a live-in mall. The promotional...
Audrey Nuna rediscovers freedom on the stage
...Comic Sans / Overused for that paper by the gram,” she slant-rhymes in “Comic Sans.” In “damn Right” Nuna muses, “Guess I’m supposed to be...
Function is unifying NYCās queer nightlife scene, one fĆŖte at a time
...weekend. The girls were taking their turns sitting down, gossiping, telling me their stories. Andrew: We’re very intentional. [Looks to George] You’re such a super...
Jonathan Lethemās āCellophane Bricksā collides art writing with narrative imagination
...I’ve done. It’s so different from writing criticism. At best, it can feel like you’re writing ad copy, ‘merchandising”’ their art. At worst, it can...
Sophie Kempās reading list for electric and hilarious prose
...way. I’m also kind of obsessed with Gordon Lish’s 4 A’s for good writing (loosened association, antic behavior, autism, morbid ambivalence), and this book really...
Lily Burgess and Lauren Massieās āA Vehement Flameā is a photographic manifestation of loveās unpredictability
...it was me crying and he grabbed the camera and took a photo of me. Lauren: Yeah, we both knew that had to happen. There’s...
The Shoptimist: Myths, markets, and the business model of hype
...able to overtake the market and reach the little-understood and forever-coveted “cult status.” “Brands, when they’re working right, aren’t mere love vessels, they’re ‘valuable resources...
āDEATHWORKā is Kamixloās ode to the angels of noise
...a little dark, shadowy edge to the music. “Honestly, in my day-to-day, I’m listening to just, like, fucking K-pop and stuff like that. I’m not...
The end of cloud computing
...supposedly safe avenues such as phishing emails, Facebook scams, or dubious web advertisements. Regardless, we’re directed to hegemonic and top-down mediating powers (Google, Apple, Spotify,...
Benjamin Fredricksonās āWedgiesā turn schoolyard antics into ass-up uncanniness
...many of them again. Still, it wasn’t always transactional.” Left: Outdoor Atomic Wedgie, 2020. Right: Pull-up Bar Wedgie, 2022. Images are courtesy of the artist...
Italian-made footwear by Scarosso meets American prep by Brooks Brothers in Florence
...artisans. With a 21st-century fusion of handicraft with modern business practices, Scarosso operates with a direct-to-consumer model that gives them oversight of the entire supply...
Best in show: Couture Week Fall 2024
...of fashion [writer’s aside: see John Galliano’s Spring 2024 Artisanal collection for Margiela, a brand OTB owns.] And thanks to this experiment, after, you can...
Wedding veils, pan flutes, and the perfect day for a picnic
...was finishing the score. “I think we got up to 17. But now, having started with Palestrina, Chopin, Mozart, Beethoven, Debussy, Ravel, Stravinsky, Pink Floyd,...
Best in show: Menās Spring/Summer 2025 and Womenās Resort Fashion WeekāParis
...of the world,” as Takahashi shared in a press release. The uniform for the designer’s thriving “fictional tribe,” as he called it, was a fantastical-yet-wearable...
In āQueendom,ā authenticity is resistance
On Friday, June 14, Queendom, the sophomore feature-length documentary directed by Agniia Galdanova, premiered in select theaters across the US. In New York, a sold-out...
Fine Print: Poetry by any means necessary
...adaptation, including not only Lauren and the actors, but also Ryan Woodhall (sound design), Bunny Lampert (fashion direction), Atinka Anderson (hair), and Destroyer of Worlds...
Best in show: Menās Spring/Summer 2025 and Womenās Resort Fashion WeekāMilan
...with just a thin veil of silk. Lace, laminated jersey tanks, and ’80s-reminiscent office power-dressing revealed “the same stylish character’s nocturnal alter ego,” as stated...
Even undead, Joan Didion wonāt back down
...way it turns out” or “either is or isn’t” and “incantations,” and I’d have gotten myself nowhere. I began my essay “Edgelords”—which opens Mean Boys,...
The Shoptimist: It aināt the same now
...steel Made moves, broke free, new deal, big D, 500, S-E-L, D-e-c, A-t-l Ghetto Mafia, “Straight from the Dec,” 1996 My favorite way to observe...
Ben Werther asks if LARPing is the new readymade
...poetic, fake-deep quality to it. Morgan: Real eyes, realize, real lies. Ben: Yes, they obviously have meaning, but it’s also the aesthetic of meaning. It’s...
Lilly Wachowskiās manifesto on New Mythologies
...about stuff, but I generally keep a positive mental attitude. Now, when you get down into the fine print—take a closer look at the ole...
The many lives of Mia Khalifa
...the year. “First heartbreak.” “Lost myself more.” In the near-decade since, Khalifa has found herself—not once, but many times over. She’s a successful influencer, model,...
SĆ³nar by Day, according to curators AntĆ²nia Folguera and Ikram Bouloum
...SoĢnar de Noche 1999 and 2013. SoĢnar de Noche 2001. Left: SoĢnar de DiĢa 1996. Right: Esplendor GeomeĢtrico at SoĢnar de DiĢa 1994. Nicolas Jarr...
Announcing Yadim, Document Journalās Beauty Director
...Diego-raised, New York-based makeup artist creates his multi-sensory signature beats. Whether on red carpets, runways, or magazine spreads, he blends glamor with provocation. In conversation...
Searching for tenderness with Kelela
...towards them. I’m dancing to communicate with them. I’m having really memorable connected moments with my friends. “I’m looking for a tenderness. A ‘comfort-with.’” Left:...
Zegna Artistic Director Alessandro Sartori and actor Mads Mikkelsen imagine new narratives of creative responsibility
...Inspired by the brand’s Spring/Summer 2024 runway show, Villa Zegna combined dedicated spaces for tailor-made shopping sessions, how-it’s-made-style glimpses behind the garments, and a cafe....
Hallucinating sense in the era of infinity-content
...Anthony attributed the show’s success to its abundance of hightraction tags (“noir, horror, John Carpenter, Indigenous rights”), noting that while it “contains ‘hot’ references and...
Fine Print: In the labyrinth of the no
...realize this great work. He proclaims it, at last, complete. Pourbus and Poussin go over: ‘Do you see anything?’ Poussin asked of Pourbus. ‘No… do...
New Red Order blends satire and sincerity to deconstruct empire
...Le Labo, smog, glass, and, of course, another ad, bright pink and with an image of a sticker-covered box—selling what, you’re not sure. “SICK &...
Inside the New York Live Arts 2024 gala
...Meredith Cox, the evening’s host. Donors, beneficiaries, performers, and friends celebrated this year’s honorees: artist Derrick Adams, president of the New York Public Library Dr....
Techno-futurists are selling an interplanetary paradise for the posthuman generationāthey just forgot about the rest of us
...before man.’” Andreessen is a self-identified “TESCREAList,” an acronym for a cluster of interlocking ideologies—transhumanism, extropianism, singularitarianism, cosmism, rationalism, effective altruism, and longtermism—popular in Silicon...
Kristen Wentrcek and Andrew Zebulon find inspiration at the DMV
...like 80 pages of this gray. Drew: [Pointing at paint tests.] Wait, these two—are these different? Kristen: Yes. Andrew: That’s what I’m talking about. Kristen:...
Lucila Safdie takes a blogger-era approach to the modern woman
...emotion, a fit? Lucila: The complexity of emotions, specifically for girls. Femininity, naivety, rebelliousness, disruptiveness, but always a bit confused. I think it’s very clear...
Things I Have No Words For
Photographer Kotaro Kawashima and stylist Jody Bain collaborate on this fashion portfolio for Document Online...
Mara Mckevittās cult of persona
...Sean Price Williams, Mckevitt does double duty as director and actress, playing Mara, the brunette, while her co-star, Allan (“She’s our generation’s Tilda,” Mckevitt contends)...
Bill T. Jones and Hank Willis Thomas reanimate creative freedom
...is responsible in let’s say, the mid-’90s—I’m thinking of your work Still/Here, Bill, and the response from white people specifically. Bill: Most of the writers...
Charlotte Day Wilsonās shades of blue
...from it. And mistakes are human, you know? Sabina: Yeah. That reminds me of the meme that’s like ‘the mortifying ordeal of being known.’ Charlotte:...
Guerreiro do Divino Amor builds a Helvetian Olympus at the 60th Venice Biennale
...poses defiantly. In Guerreiro’s parafictional universe, this lupine Capitoline has been yaasified into Calvina: a fabulous stiletto-wearing, selfie-stick-wielding goddess of Swiss super-meritocracy. Named in ironic...
Inside BoND, the New York architecture and interiors office reshaping the art world and beyond
...bought at Canal Lighting. Noam: What’s interesting about our retail work is that it’s usually for companies that didn’t [previously] have a brick and mortar...
Inside the secret libidinal archive of George Platt Lynes
...he’s our pool cleaner.’ And he said, ‘He’s one of the most handsome men I’ve ever seen, I want to buy this picture.’ Sam: Fred...
Taking care with the weird, wild, and political literatures of Hard to Read
...me and to navigate forgiveness and non-forgiveness was to write this book. M.E. O’Brien (left) and Pilar Maschi (right), polaroids by Vivien Lee. M.E. O’Brien...
Club Document: Celebrating SS24 with Erykah Badu, MichĆØle Lamy, and Editor-in-Chief Nick Vogelson
...Participant Inc.’s Lia Gangitano, Daisy Prince, Sam Penn, Parma Ham, Thomas Rom, Performance Space New York’s Pati Hertling, Whitney Mallett, Taylore Scarabelli, Michelle Duncan, Michael...
