Second Life’s loyal users embrace its decaying software and no-fun imperfections
...evictions. “My tenants explain like, ‘Oh, my real-life cat had surgery and I can’t pay this month,’” he deadpans. “It can be as traumatic as...
The sincere glamor of Candy Darling
...says, ‘I’ve come to hate my body / and all that it requires.’” Yes, she had. And men never made it any easier. Candy briefly...
Jacques Vallée and Jeffrey J. Kripal challenge the limits of knowledge
...argues, suggests our current modes of “understanding”—scientific, political, spiritual—aren’t prepared to handle these experiences. “Are the UFOs ‘windows’ rather than ‘objects’?” Vallée wrote in 1969....
Artist Julia Weist’s latest exhibition gives audiences the vantage of a private investigator
...increasingly privatized because of corporate interest. As a sign behind a parked car in one of Weist’s images reads: “where is the public?” In Self-Portrait...
Clarissa Dalrymple and David Velasco imagine an art world built on human connection
...do you get around now? Clarissa: Not well. A lot of [the time] I’m wheeled. It’s really annoying. David: Because you’re somebody who’s always… Clarissa:...
Viggo Mortensen and Ron Howard see storytelling as an act of collaboration
...said, ‘Oh, we never did two days in a row. That thing beat the hell out of you.’ Viggo: ‘You guys are crazy.’ [Laughs] Left:...
Erykah Badu and Michèle Lamy summon the spirit of the future
...my life, the best skin, the best everything. Like I’m back in high school, but I know more, or something. Like a queen-ager. [Laughs] Michèle:...
The eternal dreams of Jean Paul Gaultier and Simone Rocha
...“All I do is choose the designer,” said Gaultier. “I quit [design]. I don’t want to do the job anymore. I think [the couture line]...
‘Like Love’ guides readers through years of Maggie Nelson’s thoughtful work
...a broader communal context. As such, she devotes a significant amount of mental horsepower to considering modes of relation. Solidarity/friendship/mentorship/love (some triangulation of communication and...
Danielle Mckinney’s portraits of glamor
...prettiness. Left: Danielle Mckinney, Sacrament, (2024). Right: Danielle Mckinney, Evening Star, (2024). Images copyright of Danielle Mckinney and courtesy of Marianne Boesky Gallery. Mckinney favors...
ESSX evolves the New York retail landscape
...We call him Mr. X. Colin: Love the mystery. Laura: I actually don’t know his name. I literally just call him Mr. X. Abe: Yeah,...
Charting a course through Wim Wenders’s filmography
...Tokyo narrative about Hirayama (Kōji Yakusho), a middle-aged beatnik who cleans toilets for a living. By the end of the film, we know Hirayama’s days...
Aïsha Devi lives in the fifth dimension
...perception of reality, and access a limitless state of existence.” Onstage, she embodies her given surname, which means “goddess” in Sanskrit. “It’s not about power,”...
During Salone del Mobile, Zegna debuts ‘Born in Oasi,’ a book dedicated to the brand’s historied relationship to nature
...design concepts. It’s only fitting that Italian luxury house Zegna’s launch event for their nature-inspired book Born in Oasi—which also included a large scale exhibition,...
In Jennifer Croft’s ‘The Extinction of Irena Rey,’ literature is alive—even dangerous
...Drew: It’s also like, what good is ‘immortality’ if there’s a mass extinction event? Jennifer: Yeah, and no one thinks about that, I feel. Drew:...
Announcing Katharine Zarrella, Document Journal’s Fashion Critic-at-Large
...I went backstage and shook her hand, and said, ‘It was a really beautiful collection.’ And then Adrian [Joffe] her husband was like, ‘Rei look,...
Inside ‘Paradigm,’ the digital publication you have to smell to believe
It’s not a magazine, it’s not a film, it’s not content, isn’t that the modern Paradigm? At its third and final installation, Paradigm—a digital publication...
Pleasure-seeking: In pursuit of the real
...black leather dress. “Absolutely,” she says. Buoyed by her approval, yet dreading the weather forecast, I try to negotiate: “What about with knee-high boots?” “No,”...
Christeene channels Sinéad O’Connor in ‘The Lion, The Witch, and The Cobra’
...York. If you need me to explain what that means you’re really fucking dumb.” That Monday’s leitmotif, in other words, was “The Witch.” Sinéad O’Connor’s...
‘Seeing Meaning’ in the wake of AI
...1:1:1 perfect conceptual overlap. Producing ideologically consistent and ultra-decipherable ur-images, it’s impossible—unless pushed to their breaking point (Jon Rafman’s recent work comes close)—for text-based GANs...
The Shoptimist: the olfactory side of high fashion
...Disorders” [300.3 (F42)], lives jikoshu-kiyofu, or the fear of emitting offensive body odors. I don’t know how old I was when my father told me...
Lucia De Vito’s contemporary take on Fabiana Filippi
...really defined that era in fashion. It also influenced [a lot of] my creative approach, which was more experimental studies of proportions, volumes, weights, and...
Drazzit’s playlist to call forth the night muse
...(“Serving Clubby”; “Groovy Slay”). If your blood isn’t boiling by the end of the track, you’re not listening hard enough. They’re also a co-founder of...
‘Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines’ memorializes a forgotten archive
...Lafreniere. Photo: Brooklyn Museum, Evan McKnight. Right: Linda Simpson (a.k.a. Les Simpson) (American). My Comrade, no. 1, 1987. Photocopy, saddle stitched, 8 1/2 ×...
‘No Judgment’ with Lauren Oyler
...knows her reputation as a snarky—if not occasionally bratty—scold. In her new book of essays, No Judgment, she’ll also tell you she’s “a snob, highbrow,...
Meritxell de Soto’s favorite songs to sweat to
...body wet. The song ends after switching to hardcore, like a denouement…it kills me.” “Virtuosity” by Kubik A classic example of bakalao that’s a required...
Into the dungeon with Simon Denny
...Courtesy of the artist and Petzel, New York. I’m a very concept-, ideas-interested person, a narrative-interested person, but also a very material-interested person.These are experiments...
Inside Performance Space New York’s ‘Divine Disco’
...Richard Kennedy, Erik Altemus, Josh Rouah, RaShonda Reeves, Fernando Casablancas, Reyna Pannell, Josh Rouah, Méliké Konur, Mati Hays, Žilvinas Jonušas, Noah Amick, Sean Bennett, Alima...
The fearless thrills of Jimmy Wright and Christopher Culver
...stand for something—class, motive, burden—before their differences all but melt into roiling puddles of bodily fluids. Left: Christopher Culver, Farmers in the City, 2024. Right:...
Taja Cheek makes curation a collaborative art
...a very specific, like, check check, you say into the mic? Taja: I wish I did. I usually just say nonsense into the microphone. Drew:...
Richard Kennedy and Rashonda Reeves turn Performance Space New York into a ‘Divine Disco’
...the Heights. It’s afters at Halston’s, where everybody’s just really glamorous, smoking cigarettes. Rashonda: It’s not something everybody’s gonna get to see. It feels important,...
Best in show: PFW Fall/Winter 2024
...decade, referencing Marc Bohan and Philippe Guiborgé’s influential ‘Miss Dior’ collection from 1967. ‘Miss Dior,’ a pioneering timestamp in the invention of ready-to-wear, made a...
Mamie Green explores consciousness and family in ‘Glass House’
...home.” The vortex is triggered. “I am in the vortex. Home!” he later acknowledges. “I pace around this room, the bed a sacrifice, and an...
Pol of Paris: fashion by day, erotic illustration by night
...their free time. Eric: Ok, speaking of Paris, are there spots that you like to watch or find men? Pol: In Paris, one of the...
Fine Print: A Tale of One City
...you do last night?” a translator I knew inquired as I absently fingered a straw’s paper sheath. I recounted yesterday’s parties. “Forever Magazine?” they screwed...
The life and death of online platforms
...into my feed. It was nutritive. It “died.” What do we have now instead? Twitter, Instagram, TikTok. Addictive, politically noxious, culturally numbing, because “algorithms.” WIRED’s...
Katie Rex explores LA Art Week’s city-wide impact
...Installation view, Vampire::Mother. Jasmine Wahi, Vampire::Mother Group Show Anat Ebgi Gallery | Vortic.Art January 27–March 2, 2024 | February 27–May 22, 2024 Vampire::Mother, a group...
Pleasure-seeking: On my ex’s exes
...details, she ghosts. “I’ve been stood up,” I text my boyfriend, a bemused witness to the whole chain of events. “The saga continues,” he says....
Best in show: MFW Fall/Winter 2024
...took a knife to the parasocial for Marni’s Francesco Risso. A term the designer used in the show notes, “para-essential” refers to the things we...
Can Botox help you live longer?
...went into the plastic surgeon’s office, I said, ‘I know I’m 23, I’m pretty young.’ And they go, ‘No, that’s fairly typical.’ And I was...
Charli XCX shut down Boiler Room with PARTYGIRL
...return to the SOPHIE-produced sound of 2018’s Pop 2, ending her “sellout” era (her words, not mine) aligned with the mainstream pop sound of 2021’s...
Costaiia helps preserve Indigenous textile craftsmanship
...kill you! That’s something I don’t just remember hearing from my parents, but something that, in our [Latin American] culture, we’d hear at sleepovers. You...
Style, sustainability, and social democracy: Inside CIFF, Copenhagen’s International Fashion Fair
...recyclable materials, there’s an assortment of multi-use grooming products from LastObject, a company I’d never heard of that makes a multi-use Q-tip. Unlike in the...
Announcing Anita Bitton, Document Journal’s Casting Director
...time right now where a lot of casting is about, as you mentioned, references from other eras. And I think in referencing other eras—whether it’s...
In ‘The Wrong Movie,’ an apartment building and a ring light become metaphors for human connection
...(Elijah Lajmer), an actor, and also an addict. Aspiration is what drives the rest of the film: Nicole (Ashby Bland) wants to kill herself; her...
Best in show: LFW Fall/Winter 2024
...rendered in muted, earth tones. Lining pants, skirts, and jackets, the brand put itself (represented by its iconic motif) to practical use against the elements....
Best in show: NYFW Fall/Winter 2024
...a brusk, virile, and mythologized version of the ’80s floor traders—I’m power-posing, gesticulating while on the phone, and speed walking. LaQuan Smith, in his Fall/Winter...
‘Queues’ by Louis Osmosis serializes artistic epiphany
...not just a hat, right? It’s like with Michelin star food: the one throughline is that it’s always garnished.” Maya: They’re also competitive. They’re all...
Ana Benaroya and Katherine Bradford on the endless possibility of female figuration
...I’m glad you’ve kept them. Who isn’t interested in those nipples? Ana: [Laughs] Katherine: Come on! It’s a big breakthrough. I think when you posted...
