Music ‘Surviving the Dream’ with FIDLAR Document joined the indie rock band LA’s Balboa Recording Studio ahead of the release of their fourth album to talk about staying punk and growing...
Fashion Brioni’s La Donna explores new ground The Italian heritage house mixes embellishment and craftsmanship in its Spring / Summer collection
Art Experimental pop duo NEW YORK’s ‘rapstar*’ maintains an artful anonymity Following the release of their sophomore album, Gretchen Lawrence and Coumba Samba reflect on art, friendship, and their lo-fi influences
Art Maya Man and Sotce usher in a new generation of internet artists The pair sits down with Document to discuss their creative processes amidst the ever-changing climate of internet art
Above the Fold Remembering Kenneth Anger, an icon of queer cinematic counterculture ...landed Anger in court on obscenity charges—ultimately resulting in the ruling that homosexuality is a valid subject of artistic expression, a landmark case for free... by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold Water From Your Eyes is expert in the art of accident ...albums that might signal that a sense of humor is a primary point of their identity. (Their latest, Everyone’s Crushed, features a song about how... by Megan Hullander At Large The thrills and perils of raw-dogging reality ...its remoteness is duly contained by a sheath of commerce. The airport is essentially a hut, but also home to The Sunglass Hut. At least... by Christina Catherine Martinez Above the Fold How voice cloning is changing the music industry ...a deal with the functional music-focused AI startup Endel. Described as a “first of its kind strategic relationship,” this collaboration will allow the company’s roster... by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold Story of an Archive: Inside Boo-Hooray, Johan Kugelberg’s subcultural treasure chest Beyond an unassuming Chinatown stoop and up a flight of stairs sits a collection of some of New York’s coolest artifacts. Boo-Hooray broadly defines itself... by Jack Hjerpe Above the Fold ‘Analog Human Studies’ is provocative and agonizingly intimate ...of that legacy, more than 15 years after the fact: a compilation of Lost Boys outtakes, sat next to hand-written poems and editorial work shot... by Morgan Becker Above the Fold Behind the scenes at Fever Ray’s hypnotic New York show ...work. There are costumes; there’s choreography; the songs are reimagined and recontextualized. The last Fever Ray show in New York was in 2018, for the... by FT Above the Fold Malice K adopts an old-school ethos on “Complicated Dreams” ...a silent protest to digital, algorithmically-fashioned, and AI-generated art. Many artists are compliant with the demand for consistent content, and value it over their projects.... by Megan Hullander Conversations At the feet of LSDXOXO, nightlife’s deity of dance ‘I’m a sick bitch and I like freak sex / If you wanna test the limits of my gag reflex,” LSDXOXO sings amid a knot... by Chloe Lula Above the Fold Amidst a rise in cybercrime, researchers trained an AI on the dark web ...research purposes, and is not currently available to the public. However, it’s likely that in the future, specialized AI models will eventually be utilized by... by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold For Juergen Teller, confrontation is an art and an act of care ...be as honest [with] myself and the subject as possible,” the photographer says. “I’m depending on their humanness to come through.” The Master V is... by Megan Hullander Conversations Thelma Golden and Lisa Phillips reevaluate the function of art institutions as public spaces In 2018, Thelma Golden, Director and Chief Curator of The Studio Museum in Harlem, shared the news that it would temporarily close to construct a... by Kimberly Drew Above the Fold Szilvia Molnar’s ‘The Nursery’ paints a grim portrait of parenthood ...about harming her newborn daughter in increasingly violent ways. It’s an immersive, often darkly comedic work—one that feels as intimate as a journal, and classically... by Sammy Loren Above the Fold Inside London Craft Week, where tradition meets modernity ...the traditional to the innovative, the work on view celebrated artistic communities across and beyond the city, providing fertile ground for inspiration, and exposure to... by Morgan Becker Above the Fold A playlist portrait of Lauren Early ...partially recorded by Joo Joo Ashworth (Automatic, Sasami, Froth), and mixed by Erin Tonkon (David Bowie, Grace Ives, Sad13)—and offering her whole self in her... by Megan Hullander At Large Uncovering the photographic archive of Allen Ginsberg ...few.” — Peter Hale Right: Peter Orlovsky, “returned from India,” Houston Street & Bowery, New York, 1963. Left: Iggy Pop, New York, 1990. “A brief... by Megan Hullander Above the Fold Francesco Vezzoli confronts the legacy of the classical ...the case of the choice of the ancient objects, I think more about the community—you know, about who will come and look at them. Patrick:... by Patrick Crowley Above the Fold Misha Japanwala wants you to be without shame ...people in Karachi. The resulting artwork is now on display in Japanwala’s debut solo exhibition at Hannah Traore Gallery, titled Beghairati Ki Nishaani–or ‘Traces of... by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold At Club Onyx, Adrienne Raquel documents the reality behind the strip club’s fantasy ...the American Dream.” It’s this reality that Adrienne Raquel set out to capture in her photographic series ONYX, named after the famous Houston strip club.... by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold Daytripping: Living in the gaps of being ...The radio is playing “Hotel California,” one of the Top 10 most cringeworthy songs of all time. It’s making me think we’re in Hotel Brooklyn—some... by McKenzie Wark At Large On Treasure Beach, ceremonies of hospitality and hallucinogens draw a path to the self ...spotted in the “lobby” at Jakes, which is a partially open-air, original Treasure Beach house, was a poster for the film The Harder They Come.... by Ira Silverberg Above the Fold Document premieres the music video for “UNAVAILABLE,” Casey Spooner’s sonic meditation on sex and death ...Nazareth and editor Tibor De Laminne, making the most of a notably short shooting window. “I think the best work comes from an environment that... by Morgan Becker At Large The seductive promise of finding home on the homepage ...forking paths. As David Sloan Wilson so eloquently argued in his wide-reaching summary of multilevel evolutionary processes, This View of Life, new patterns of behavior... by Oliver Bown Above the Fold Artists and journalists call for the restriction of AI illustration in publishing ...latest in a series of industry leaders-turned-AI doomers, thousand of whom signed an open letter calling for the halt in development of generative AI, citing... by Camille Sojit Pejcha Conversations ANOHNI and Johanna Constantine invoke art from apocalypse ...reiterative, suburban-style drag scene powered by new recruits and Michael Alig’s zombified empire.” ANOHNI: Vito Russo was a very catalytic force for us, having come... by Lia Gangitano Above the Fold ‘Femme F(r)iction’ canvasses the trailblazing work of a century of female creatives ...Sherman and Judy Chicago, for instance, gains new meaning in the presence of design pieces by Egg Collective and Najla El Zein, paintings by Sophia-Yemisi... by Morgan Becker Above the Fold Kate Ahn bares it all in ‘Oh No! I’m Naked!’ ...sucks at first, but it [becomes] like fuel. It drives my work and inspires new ideas. The greatest part of the negative feedback is that... by Anna Zanes At Large A Return to the Land: Regenerative agricultural practices safeguard future fertility ...Duran on the Carzalia Valley Farm in New Mexico. The farm has been fully regenerative since 2020. In the late-’90s, he farmed the way he... by Peter Gleick Above the Fold Luis Alberto Rodriguez’s ‘O.’ is a noise, a gasp, a cycle, a reset The photographer’s latest book seeks moments of transcendence, imagined in dynamic studio nudes and coffee-ground divination... by Megan Hullander Above the Fold Paw Gissel documents the ease of the Brazilian coast ...the resulting portraits speaks for itself: testament not only to Gissel’s skill as a photographer, but also to the best of what Rio has to... by Document Journal Above the Fold Inside Jean Paul Gaultier and The Webster’s Spring/Summer 2023 launch party ...arrangements, seamlessly complementing creative director Florence Tétier’s own fluid prints, which adorned the dresses, tube pants, and mélange tops of those lucky enough to don... by Morgan Becker At Large Between rivers and histories, An-My Lê’s photographs interrogate the complex fictions of warfare ...Her oeuvre powerfully explores the complex fictions used to justify, represent, and mythologize warfare. Lê does not take a conventional photojournalistic approach to real-time combat;... by Roxana Marcoci Above the Fold Claire Dederer’s ‘Monsters’ is a story about us ...latest offering is part-novel, part-memoir, and all provocation. Over the course of what can only be described as a book-length essay, Dederer turns her gaze... by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold ‘The Godfather of AI’ speaks out about the dangers of the technology he helped create Amidst the boom in generative tech, sentiments around AI are rapidly shifting. After OpenAI released a new version of ChatGPT in March, over a thousand... by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold Pornhub blocks access in Utah to protest new age verification laws ...Utah Governor Spencer Cox signed into law in March, requires users to fork over their ID before accessing the site’s adult offerings—and it’s only the... by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold Daytripping: Learning the art of letting go ...dancing together. One thing I love about Jenny is that, when she gets free, she really gets free. Arms up, oscillating around the beat. Pulling... by McKenzie Wark Above the Fold The art of curating Coachella ...Hindu temples. Özel used his AI experience to build a 60-foot curvilinear sculpture inspired by the Pribram-Bohm Composite Holoflux Theory. “I generated the visuals through... by Ann Binlot Conversations Cillian Murphy and Geoff Dyer evaluate the cross-medium art of observation ...his latest book, The Last Days of Roger Federer, isn’t about tennis, as its title implies and its publishers were led to believe. Instead, it’s... by Megan Hullander Above the Fold Bookmarked: Everything the Document editors watched, read, ate, bought, and listened to in April ...was packed; the work on offer alternatively comic, tragic, profound, understated, experimental. A line snaked out the room as the lights went back on: Wark... by Document Editors Above the Fold Miami is a poem we write together ...I touch down at Miami International Airport and throw it in the trash. I haven’t felt hot air on my face in weeks. The stretch... by Christina Catherine Martinez Conversations Myha’la Herrold pushes the on-screen envelope, redefining the antihero Resistant to the archetype, the actor is emblematic of a new generation of performers, committed to complex characters and storylines... by Morgan Becker Above the Fold Inside TRANSFIX, the world’s largest touring immersive art experience ...why TRANSFIX takes aim at creating a new economy around the artists themselves, championing those who have otherwise been excluded from the art-historical canon. “We... by Camille Sojit Pejcha Conversations Saoirse Ronan and Grace Coddington are artists in the craft of character-building ...the life that I would have had in New York—I’m sure it would have been fine—but it’s nothing compared to growing up in the countryside... by Maraya Fisher Above the Fold James Walsh builds wearable sculpture, fueled by childhood nostalgia ...the purity and innocence of youth—the curiosity that comes with experiencing the world for the first time. Model Kristie Lai at Models 1. Set Design... by Morgan Becker Conversations Pedro Almodóvar and Anthony Vaccarello are true disciples of fashion’s storied love affair with film ...without being limited by any kind of compromise. I wanted to make one of his fantasies come true. “For me, everything starts with having no... by Aaron Hicklin Above the Fold The slow sea odyssey of ‘Human Flowers of Flesh’ renders everything from “nothing” ...when they hear an ocean roar; it’s one of those sounds. Like a siren call to the subconscious, it drags shit to the shore. In... by Greta Rainbow Above the Fold Document Launches Spring/Summer 2023: Return to the Real ...landscapes. People want touch; they want community. The search for the real doesn’t always translate to an outright rejection of digital worlds; in fact, the... by Nick Vogelson Above the Fold Ask Liara: A sex worker’s guide to living, loving, and fucking ...you want. They know, deep down, you don’t really want to date them—that if you knew who they really were, you would run far away.... by Liara Roux Above the Fold An Orwellian guide to the making of a literary festival ...and that the nearest railway station is 45 minutes away. 3. Check that said town has no existing hotels, so that you are forced to... by Megan Hullander Above the Fold Bad Words: Missing the Black Party, a pilgrimage site for gay men ...The original owner of The Saint was named Bruce Mailman. He was a nightlife impresario, owner of the New St. Marks Baths—another famous gay destination... by Alexander Cheves
Above the Fold Remembering Kenneth Anger, an icon of queer cinematic counterculture ...landed Anger in court on obscenity charges—ultimately resulting in the ruling that homosexuality is a valid subject of artistic expression, a landmark case for free... by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold Water From Your Eyes is expert in the art of accident ...albums that might signal that a sense of humor is a primary point of their identity. (Their latest, Everyone’s Crushed, features a song about how... by Megan Hullander
At Large The thrills and perils of raw-dogging reality ...its remoteness is duly contained by a sheath of commerce. The airport is essentially a hut, but also home to The Sunglass Hut. At least... by Christina Catherine Martinez
Above the Fold How voice cloning is changing the music industry ...a deal with the functional music-focused AI startup Endel. Described as a “first of its kind strategic relationship,” this collaboration will allow the company’s roster... by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold Story of an Archive: Inside Boo-Hooray, Johan Kugelberg’s subcultural treasure chest Beyond an unassuming Chinatown stoop and up a flight of stairs sits a collection of some of New York’s coolest artifacts. Boo-Hooray broadly defines itself... by Jack Hjerpe
Above the Fold ‘Analog Human Studies’ is provocative and agonizingly intimate ...of that legacy, more than 15 years after the fact: a compilation of Lost Boys outtakes, sat next to hand-written poems and editorial work shot... by Morgan Becker
Above the Fold Behind the scenes at Fever Ray’s hypnotic New York show ...work. There are costumes; there’s choreography; the songs are reimagined and recontextualized. The last Fever Ray show in New York was in 2018, for the... by FT
Above the Fold Malice K adopts an old-school ethos on “Complicated Dreams” ...a silent protest to digital, algorithmically-fashioned, and AI-generated art. Many artists are compliant with the demand for consistent content, and value it over their projects.... by Megan Hullander
Conversations At the feet of LSDXOXO, nightlife’s deity of dance ‘I’m a sick bitch and I like freak sex / If you wanna test the limits of my gag reflex,” LSDXOXO sings amid a knot... by Chloe Lula
Above the Fold Amidst a rise in cybercrime, researchers trained an AI on the dark web ...research purposes, and is not currently available to the public. However, it’s likely that in the future, specialized AI models will eventually be utilized by... by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold For Juergen Teller, confrontation is an art and an act of care ...be as honest [with] myself and the subject as possible,” the photographer says. “I’m depending on their humanness to come through.” The Master V is... by Megan Hullander
Conversations Thelma Golden and Lisa Phillips reevaluate the function of art institutions as public spaces In 2018, Thelma Golden, Director and Chief Curator of The Studio Museum in Harlem, shared the news that it would temporarily close to construct a... by Kimberly Drew
Above the Fold Szilvia Molnar’s ‘The Nursery’ paints a grim portrait of parenthood ...about harming her newborn daughter in increasingly violent ways. It’s an immersive, often darkly comedic work—one that feels as intimate as a journal, and classically... by Sammy Loren
Above the Fold Inside London Craft Week, where tradition meets modernity ...the traditional to the innovative, the work on view celebrated artistic communities across and beyond the city, providing fertile ground for inspiration, and exposure to... by Morgan Becker
Above the Fold A playlist portrait of Lauren Early ...partially recorded by Joo Joo Ashworth (Automatic, Sasami, Froth), and mixed by Erin Tonkon (David Bowie, Grace Ives, Sad13)—and offering her whole self in her... by Megan Hullander
At Large Uncovering the photographic archive of Allen Ginsberg ...few.” — Peter Hale Right: Peter Orlovsky, “returned from India,” Houston Street & Bowery, New York, 1963. Left: Iggy Pop, New York, 1990. “A brief... by Megan Hullander
Above the Fold Francesco Vezzoli confronts the legacy of the classical ...the case of the choice of the ancient objects, I think more about the community—you know, about who will come and look at them. Patrick:... by Patrick Crowley
Above the Fold Misha Japanwala wants you to be without shame ...people in Karachi. The resulting artwork is now on display in Japanwala’s debut solo exhibition at Hannah Traore Gallery, titled Beghairati Ki Nishaani–or ‘Traces of... by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold At Club Onyx, Adrienne Raquel documents the reality behind the strip club’s fantasy ...the American Dream.” It’s this reality that Adrienne Raquel set out to capture in her photographic series ONYX, named after the famous Houston strip club.... by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold Daytripping: Living in the gaps of being ...The radio is playing “Hotel California,” one of the Top 10 most cringeworthy songs of all time. It’s making me think we’re in Hotel Brooklyn—some... by McKenzie Wark
At Large On Treasure Beach, ceremonies of hospitality and hallucinogens draw a path to the self ...spotted in the “lobby” at Jakes, which is a partially open-air, original Treasure Beach house, was a poster for the film The Harder They Come.... by Ira Silverberg
Above the Fold Document premieres the music video for “UNAVAILABLE,” Casey Spooner’s sonic meditation on sex and death ...Nazareth and editor Tibor De Laminne, making the most of a notably short shooting window. “I think the best work comes from an environment that... by Morgan Becker
At Large The seductive promise of finding home on the homepage ...forking paths. As David Sloan Wilson so eloquently argued in his wide-reaching summary of multilevel evolutionary processes, This View of Life, new patterns of behavior... by Oliver Bown
Above the Fold Artists and journalists call for the restriction of AI illustration in publishing ...latest in a series of industry leaders-turned-AI doomers, thousand of whom signed an open letter calling for the halt in development of generative AI, citing... by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Conversations ANOHNI and Johanna Constantine invoke art from apocalypse ...reiterative, suburban-style drag scene powered by new recruits and Michael Alig’s zombified empire.” ANOHNI: Vito Russo was a very catalytic force for us, having come... by Lia Gangitano
Above the Fold ‘Femme F(r)iction’ canvasses the trailblazing work of a century of female creatives ...Sherman and Judy Chicago, for instance, gains new meaning in the presence of design pieces by Egg Collective and Najla El Zein, paintings by Sophia-Yemisi... by Morgan Becker
Above the Fold Kate Ahn bares it all in ‘Oh No! I’m Naked!’ ...sucks at first, but it [becomes] like fuel. It drives my work and inspires new ideas. The greatest part of the negative feedback is that... by Anna Zanes
At Large A Return to the Land: Regenerative agricultural practices safeguard future fertility ...Duran on the Carzalia Valley Farm in New Mexico. The farm has been fully regenerative since 2020. In the late-’90s, he farmed the way he... by Peter Gleick
Above the Fold Luis Alberto Rodriguez’s ‘O.’ is a noise, a gasp, a cycle, a reset The photographer’s latest book seeks moments of transcendence, imagined in dynamic studio nudes and coffee-ground divination... by Megan Hullander
Above the Fold Paw Gissel documents the ease of the Brazilian coast ...the resulting portraits speaks for itself: testament not only to Gissel’s skill as a photographer, but also to the best of what Rio has to... by Document Journal
Above the Fold Inside Jean Paul Gaultier and The Webster’s Spring/Summer 2023 launch party ...arrangements, seamlessly complementing creative director Florence Tétier’s own fluid prints, which adorned the dresses, tube pants, and mélange tops of those lucky enough to don... by Morgan Becker
At Large Between rivers and histories, An-My Lê’s photographs interrogate the complex fictions of warfare ...Her oeuvre powerfully explores the complex fictions used to justify, represent, and mythologize warfare. Lê does not take a conventional photojournalistic approach to real-time combat;... by Roxana Marcoci
Above the Fold Claire Dederer’s ‘Monsters’ is a story about us ...latest offering is part-novel, part-memoir, and all provocation. Over the course of what can only be described as a book-length essay, Dederer turns her gaze... by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold ‘The Godfather of AI’ speaks out about the dangers of the technology he helped create Amidst the boom in generative tech, sentiments around AI are rapidly shifting. After OpenAI released a new version of ChatGPT in March, over a thousand... by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold Pornhub blocks access in Utah to protest new age verification laws ...Utah Governor Spencer Cox signed into law in March, requires users to fork over their ID before accessing the site’s adult offerings—and it’s only the... by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold Daytripping: Learning the art of letting go ...dancing together. One thing I love about Jenny is that, when she gets free, she really gets free. Arms up, oscillating around the beat. Pulling... by McKenzie Wark
Above the Fold The art of curating Coachella ...Hindu temples. Özel used his AI experience to build a 60-foot curvilinear sculpture inspired by the Pribram-Bohm Composite Holoflux Theory. “I generated the visuals through... by Ann Binlot
Conversations Cillian Murphy and Geoff Dyer evaluate the cross-medium art of observation ...his latest book, The Last Days of Roger Federer, isn’t about tennis, as its title implies and its publishers were led to believe. Instead, it’s... by Megan Hullander
Above the Fold Bookmarked: Everything the Document editors watched, read, ate, bought, and listened to in April ...was packed; the work on offer alternatively comic, tragic, profound, understated, experimental. A line snaked out the room as the lights went back on: Wark... by Document Editors
Above the Fold Miami is a poem we write together ...I touch down at Miami International Airport and throw it in the trash. I haven’t felt hot air on my face in weeks. The stretch... by Christina Catherine Martinez
Conversations Myha’la Herrold pushes the on-screen envelope, redefining the antihero Resistant to the archetype, the actor is emblematic of a new generation of performers, committed to complex characters and storylines... by Morgan Becker
Above the Fold Inside TRANSFIX, the world’s largest touring immersive art experience ...why TRANSFIX takes aim at creating a new economy around the artists themselves, championing those who have otherwise been excluded from the art-historical canon. “We... by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Conversations Saoirse Ronan and Grace Coddington are artists in the craft of character-building ...the life that I would have had in New York—I’m sure it would have been fine—but it’s nothing compared to growing up in the countryside... by Maraya Fisher
Above the Fold James Walsh builds wearable sculpture, fueled by childhood nostalgia ...the purity and innocence of youth—the curiosity that comes with experiencing the world for the first time. Model Kristie Lai at Models 1. Set Design... by Morgan Becker
Conversations Pedro Almodóvar and Anthony Vaccarello are true disciples of fashion’s storied love affair with film ...without being limited by any kind of compromise. I wanted to make one of his fantasies come true. “For me, everything starts with having no... by Aaron Hicklin
Above the Fold The slow sea odyssey of ‘Human Flowers of Flesh’ renders everything from “nothing” ...when they hear an ocean roar; it’s one of those sounds. Like a siren call to the subconscious, it drags shit to the shore. In... by Greta Rainbow
Above the Fold Document Launches Spring/Summer 2023: Return to the Real ...landscapes. People want touch; they want community. The search for the real doesn’t always translate to an outright rejection of digital worlds; in fact, the... by Nick Vogelson
Above the Fold Ask Liara: A sex worker’s guide to living, loving, and fucking ...you want. They know, deep down, you don’t really want to date them—that if you knew who they really were, you would run far away.... by Liara Roux
Above the Fold An Orwellian guide to the making of a literary festival ...and that the nearest railway station is 45 minutes away. 3. Check that said town has no existing hotels, so that you are forced to... by Megan Hullander
Above the Fold Bad Words: Missing the Black Party, a pilgrimage site for gay men ...The original owner of The Saint was named Bruce Mailman. He was a nightlife impresario, owner of the New St. Marks Baths—another famous gay destination... by Alexander Cheves