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
Conversations The many lives of Mia Khalifa ...top-searched names on Pornhub—accruing millions of views and continuing to rake in money for companies eager to capitalize on the moment of her life she’d... by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold The mother and the monster in Catalina Ouyang’s ‘Trick’ Currently on view at Lyles and King, the sculptor’s latest show references everything from fox spirits to early 17th-century bridles in an installation as ethereal... by Grace Byron At Large Rituals and origin stories across Japan’s southern islands ...of its 88 temples. Initiates carry a special staff and don white garb, signaling to locals that they are completing this trek. The journey was... by Mary Bond Above the Fold Sónar by Day, according to curators Antònia Folguera and Ikram Bouloum ...image: It’s high noon the day of Esplendor Geométrico’s headlining show, and all the music heads, engineers, and artists alike come together at Centre de... by Maya Kotomori Above the Fold Announcing Yadim, Document Journal’s Beauty Director Yadim finds liberation in beauty. Melding inspiration by the New Romantic looks of his favorite bands as a teen to the glitter-dusted dancefloors of raves... by Nick Vogelson Above the Fold Inside Franciacorta, Italy’s next bubbly vinicultural destination ...the harvest comes earlier and earlier in August, complicating the harvesting process in Franciacorta which is already early and narrow due to the complex microclimate... by Colin Boyle Conversations 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:... by Shaadi Devereaux Above the Fold Stacy Skolnik’s genre-bending ‘The Ginny Suite’ is an experiment in post-pandemic poetics ...would come last. I always knew “The Spread” was last. And I always knew that Ginny was towards the beginning. And then in terms of... by Drew Zeiba Above the Fold Zegna Artistic Director Alessandro Sartori and actor Mads Mikkelsen imagine new narratives of creative responsibility ...world as well as this season’s new collection. Amid Shanghai’s Villa Zegna experience, Document’s Editor-in-Chief Nick Vogelson sits down with Artistic Director Alessandro Sartori and... by Nick Vogelson At Large Hallucinating sense in the era of infinity-content ...of Google Search or, more critically, AI-powered chatbots such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Microsoft Bing’s Copilot, which increasingly serve as research aids. The latter was... by Caroline Busta Conversations Decoding the ‘it’ factor with Abbey Lee ...the big difference is that both require you to have a relationship with the camera, but one needs you to be aware and comfortable and... by Maya Kotomori Above the Fold Fine Print: In the labyrinth of the no ...explores in Bartleby & Co. Vila-Matas’s novel—published in 2000 in Spanish and translated to English in 2004—ostensibly comprises a diary that is also a compendium... by Drew Zeiba At Large New Red Order blends satire and sincerity to deconstruct empire ...stairs, each step of which glimmers with fluorescent vinyl platitudes which you learn, upon reaching the top, promote a new aluminum-free deodorant. The fresh air... by Drew Zeiba Above the Fold Elisabetta Zangrandi creates her own art-historical canon The Italian painter’s latest solo exhibition ‘Musée Imaginaire’ looks to past generations of women artists to stage a new present... by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold Inside the New York Live Arts 2024 gala ...dance solo by artist-in-residence Jasmine Hearn set the stage for opening remarks from Executive Director and CEO Kim Cullen, who introduced New York Live Arts... by Maya Kotomori At Large Techno-futurists are selling an interplanetary paradise for the posthuman generation—they just forgot about the rest of us As legend has it, Steve Jobs once asked Larry Kenyon, an engineer tasked with developing the Mac computer, to reduce its boot time by 10... by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold Kristen Wentrcek and Andrew Zebulon find inspiration at the DMV ...Drew: Do you make prototypes? Are you doing a lot of material testing? Kristen: Tons of testing. I think that’s the best part. Drew: What’s... by Drew Zeiba Above the Fold Lucila Safdie takes a blogger-era approach to the modern woman ...all be in the library doing research but everyone would have completely different books and would be referencing completely different things. Central Saint Martins was... by Maya Kotomori At Large Futuristic aspirations and climate limitations collide on the elevations of the Bolivian Altiplano ...austere companion to the Aymara. Read in the era of the Anthropocene, the linguistic gesture that freezes the animal in perpetual present is striking: the... by Liliana Colanzi Above the Fold Mara Mckevitt’s cult of persona ...a character named Sophia. As Mara and Sophia provide companion services, which allow Mckevitt the financial windfall to fund Val, the narrator questions the blurry... by Whitney Mallett Above the Fold Gab Bois’s second drop with ‘Canapés’ is a citrusy welcome to spring The artist’s latest release from her ready-to-wear collection features a deceptively real clementine heel, drawing on the fruit’s multitude of meanings... by Will Allstetter Conversations Bill T. Jones and Hank Willis Thomas reanimate creative freedom ...HIV/AIDS in 1988. Throughout the ’70s and ’80s, Jones produced numerous works both independently and in collaboration with Zane as the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane... by Maya Kotomori Above the Fold Charlotte Day Wilson’s shades of blue ...thing where I would go into my own space and come out fully developed. Now, I’ve learned that I just have to work with people... by Sabina Latifovic At Large Shahzia Sikander transforms time into a medium ...was realizing the bronze figurative sculpture NOW to top off the Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court building on Madison Avenue, Sikander... by Drew Zeiba Above the Fold Guerreiro do Divino Amor builds a Helvetian Olympus at the 60th Venice Biennale ...in Venice is split into two main zones, each housing a new chapter in the artist’s fictional universe. Up front is a blacklight colonnade complete... by Alice Bucknell Above the Fold Saint Laurent cinematic connection comes full circle in Cannes ...been waiting for. Saint Laurent Productions is entering three of its films in competition for the festival’s 77th edition: Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Perez, about a... by Elroy Rosenberg Above the Fold For Tyler Matthew Oyer, queerness is a cosmic dance Described as a “multidisciplinary immortalist” by the performance artist Kembra Pfahler, the CalArts-trained, LA-based artist Tyler Matthew Oyer approaches music, performance, photography, and video with... by Colin Boyle Above the Fold Inside BoND, the New York architecture and interiors office reshaping the art world and beyond ...in their joint venture as they settle into a new office in Flatiron. Our conversation begins with their new digs, tracks the progression of their... by Eric Schwartau Above the Fold Silence sizzles in ‘Tiptoeing Through the Kitchen’, Luhring Augustine’s latest group show ...man. Somewhere in between a kind of wistful longing arises. Left: Sophia Chai, ã…—(0927-01), 2023. Courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York. Right:... by Minh Le Above the Fold Dreaming alongside Sega Bodega ...hazy dreamscape with “Coma Dennis,” Sega Bodega’s newest album, Dennis, unceremoniously plunges into the arpeggiated rush of “Adulter8.” A crooning voice emerges, blending into the... by Will Allstetter At Large Inside the secret libidinal archive of George Platt Lynes ...talked about George. He was the only one actually, of all the people that knew George, who talked about his sexual habits. I asked all... by Nick Vogelson Above the Fold Rhizome throws annual gala afterparty in collaboration with NYC-based performance series 29 Speedway The night air whips around the East River-adjacent streets of the Financial District, forming a giant wind tunnel. Concrete and glass monuments—police precincts and towers... by Maya Kotomori Above the Fold Taking care with the weird, wild, and political literatures of Hard to Read ...never one to be in search of lost time. She co-founded a free clinic for sex workers at Callen-Lorde Community Health Center, and through DecrimNY,... by Hard to Read Above the Fold Club Document: Celebrating SS24 with Erykah Badu, Michèle Lamy, and Editor-in-Chief Nick Vogelson Inside our Issue 24 launch party featuring hot guests and even hotter DJ sets... by Document Journal At Large Confronting emerging mythologies from the striptease to gang wars to ‘The Sims’ ...community of creators making “mods” (as they’re commonly known in the community) for it: Mods can enhance and distort the software so heavily that it... by Document Journal At Large Second Life’s loyal users embrace its decaying software and no-fun imperfections ...commodification of airspace in the city, colloquially known as “NYC air rights.” I think about how the same principle applies across both our second and... by Alice Bucknell At Large The sincere glamor of Candy Darling New York is full of divas. But despite their popularity, divas don’t always get their critical due. Some legends’ reputations overshadow their own talent. Candy... by Grace Byron Conversations Jacques Vallée and Jeffrey J. Kripal challenge the limits of knowledge ...’50s, and many new airplanes were coming up and so on. I almost convinced myself that I had seen a prototype of some new device... by Drew Zeiba Above the Fold At Pageant’s second annual gala, experimental performance reigns supreme ...its coming year of programming, all evaluated by a panel of judges featuring Nile Harris and Yoshiko Chuma among the council, and hosted by fellow... by Maya Kotomori Above the Fold Artist Julia Weist’s latest exhibition gives audiences the vantage of a private investigator ...their actions in accordance with authority. In her first solo show at New York’s New Art Dealers Alliance fair (NADA) comprising three photographic series, New... by Nick Vogelson Conversations Clarissa Dalrymple and David Velasco imagine an art world built on human connection ...did you come to New York? Clarissa: Partly, it was the revolution. It was 1968. It had sort of fizzled in England or Europe. But... by David Velasco Conversations Maya Hawke and Kim Gordon dissect the poetics of commerce ...as the levity of feeling ready to “give up, be loved” (“Black Ice”). Her lyricism goes a step beyond honesty, showing a fearlessness that also... by Maya Kotomori Above the Fold The Shoptimist Speaks: In conversation with Christine Alcalay ...in order to be able to communicate that through clothing. When I graduated high school, I didn’t want to be on Seventh Avenue in Manhattan.... by Maya Kotomori Conversations Viggo Mortensen and Ron Howard see storytelling as an act of collaboration ...(2007), he’s a menacing yet enigmatic fixer with ties to London’s most dangerous crime family. However, he’s driven by a mysterious moral compass his compatriots... by Camille Sojit Pejcha Conversations Erykah Badu and Michèle Lamy summon the spirit of the future ...had five questions in my mind, and they’re very simple questions. Michèle: Tell me. Erykah: Okay, who is the cutest rapper in hip hop to... by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold ESSX drops new photos that show high fashion in the LES wild Along with an interview featuring ESSX’s Laura Baker, Abe Chavez, and Fifi Hodgkinson, the multibrand concept shop has shot a slate of campaign images across... by Document Journal Conversations The eternal dreams of Jean Paul Gaultier and Simone Rocha ...need a more compelling raison d’être. The year following his retirement from design in 2020, the now 72-year-old Jean Paul Gaultier focused his energy on... by Katharine K. Zarrella Conversations Isabelle Huppert and Bruce LaBruce capture the profound power of deviance ...great mystery. “I think a lot of your characters are quite romantic,” says Bruce LaBruce, who’s similarly made a career teasing out the philosophical complexities... by Whitney Mallett Above the Fold Document Launches Spring/Summer 2024: New Mythologies ...visions, alternatives, and speculations. Above all, it’s a collection of ambitious ideas about our culture today and in the future.” Some communities choose to embrace... by Nick Vogelson Above the Fold ‘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... by Will Allstetter
Conversations The many lives of Mia Khalifa ...top-searched names on Pornhub—accruing millions of views and continuing to rake in money for companies eager to capitalize on the moment of her life she’d... by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold The mother and the monster in Catalina Ouyang’s ‘Trick’ Currently on view at Lyles and King, the sculptor’s latest show references everything from fox spirits to early 17th-century bridles in an installation as ethereal... by Grace Byron
At Large Rituals and origin stories across Japan’s southern islands ...of its 88 temples. Initiates carry a special staff and don white garb, signaling to locals that they are completing this trek. The journey was... by Mary Bond
Above the Fold Sónar by Day, according to curators Antònia Folguera and Ikram Bouloum ...image: It’s high noon the day of Esplendor Geométrico’s headlining show, and all the music heads, engineers, and artists alike come together at Centre de... by Maya Kotomori
Above the Fold Announcing Yadim, Document Journal’s Beauty Director Yadim finds liberation in beauty. Melding inspiration by the New Romantic looks of his favorite bands as a teen to the glitter-dusted dancefloors of raves... by Nick Vogelson
Above the Fold Inside Franciacorta, Italy’s next bubbly vinicultural destination ...the harvest comes earlier and earlier in August, complicating the harvesting process in Franciacorta which is already early and narrow due to the complex microclimate... by Colin Boyle
Conversations 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:... by Shaadi Devereaux
Above the Fold Stacy Skolnik’s genre-bending ‘The Ginny Suite’ is an experiment in post-pandemic poetics ...would come last. I always knew “The Spread” was last. And I always knew that Ginny was towards the beginning. And then in terms of... by Drew Zeiba
Above the Fold Zegna Artistic Director Alessandro Sartori and actor Mads Mikkelsen imagine new narratives of creative responsibility ...world as well as this season’s new collection. Amid Shanghai’s Villa Zegna experience, Document’s Editor-in-Chief Nick Vogelson sits down with Artistic Director Alessandro Sartori and... by Nick Vogelson
At Large Hallucinating sense in the era of infinity-content ...of Google Search or, more critically, AI-powered chatbots such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Microsoft Bing’s Copilot, which increasingly serve as research aids. The latter was... by Caroline Busta
Conversations Decoding the ‘it’ factor with Abbey Lee ...the big difference is that both require you to have a relationship with the camera, but one needs you to be aware and comfortable and... by Maya Kotomori
Above the Fold Fine Print: In the labyrinth of the no ...explores in Bartleby & Co. Vila-Matas’s novel—published in 2000 in Spanish and translated to English in 2004—ostensibly comprises a diary that is also a compendium... by Drew Zeiba
At Large New Red Order blends satire and sincerity to deconstruct empire ...stairs, each step of which glimmers with fluorescent vinyl platitudes which you learn, upon reaching the top, promote a new aluminum-free deodorant. The fresh air... by Drew Zeiba
Above the Fold Elisabetta Zangrandi creates her own art-historical canon The Italian painter’s latest solo exhibition ‘Musée Imaginaire’ looks to past generations of women artists to stage a new present... by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold Inside the New York Live Arts 2024 gala ...dance solo by artist-in-residence Jasmine Hearn set the stage for opening remarks from Executive Director and CEO Kim Cullen, who introduced New York Live Arts... by Maya Kotomori
At Large Techno-futurists are selling an interplanetary paradise for the posthuman generation—they just forgot about the rest of us As legend has it, Steve Jobs once asked Larry Kenyon, an engineer tasked with developing the Mac computer, to reduce its boot time by 10... by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold Kristen Wentrcek and Andrew Zebulon find inspiration at the DMV ...Drew: Do you make prototypes? Are you doing a lot of material testing? Kristen: Tons of testing. I think that’s the best part. Drew: What’s... by Drew Zeiba
Above the Fold Lucila Safdie takes a blogger-era approach to the modern woman ...all be in the library doing research but everyone would have completely different books and would be referencing completely different things. Central Saint Martins was... by Maya Kotomori
At Large Futuristic aspirations and climate limitations collide on the elevations of the Bolivian Altiplano ...austere companion to the Aymara. Read in the era of the Anthropocene, the linguistic gesture that freezes the animal in perpetual present is striking: the... by Liliana Colanzi
Above the Fold Mara Mckevitt’s cult of persona ...a character named Sophia. As Mara and Sophia provide companion services, which allow Mckevitt the financial windfall to fund Val, the narrator questions the blurry... by Whitney Mallett
Above the Fold Gab Bois’s second drop with ‘Canapés’ is a citrusy welcome to spring The artist’s latest release from her ready-to-wear collection features a deceptively real clementine heel, drawing on the fruit’s multitude of meanings... by Will Allstetter
Conversations Bill T. Jones and Hank Willis Thomas reanimate creative freedom ...HIV/AIDS in 1988. Throughout the ’70s and ’80s, Jones produced numerous works both independently and in collaboration with Zane as the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane... by Maya Kotomori
Above the Fold Charlotte Day Wilson’s shades of blue ...thing where I would go into my own space and come out fully developed. Now, I’ve learned that I just have to work with people... by Sabina Latifovic
At Large Shahzia Sikander transforms time into a medium ...was realizing the bronze figurative sculpture NOW to top off the Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court building on Madison Avenue, Sikander... by Drew Zeiba
Above the Fold Guerreiro do Divino Amor builds a Helvetian Olympus at the 60th Venice Biennale ...in Venice is split into two main zones, each housing a new chapter in the artist’s fictional universe. Up front is a blacklight colonnade complete... by Alice Bucknell
Above the Fold Saint Laurent cinematic connection comes full circle in Cannes ...been waiting for. Saint Laurent Productions is entering three of its films in competition for the festival’s 77th edition: Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Perez, about a... by Elroy Rosenberg
Above the Fold For Tyler Matthew Oyer, queerness is a cosmic dance Described as a “multidisciplinary immortalist” by the performance artist Kembra Pfahler, the CalArts-trained, LA-based artist Tyler Matthew Oyer approaches music, performance, photography, and video with... by Colin Boyle
Above the Fold Inside BoND, the New York architecture and interiors office reshaping the art world and beyond ...in their joint venture as they settle into a new office in Flatiron. Our conversation begins with their new digs, tracks the progression of their... by Eric Schwartau
Above the Fold Silence sizzles in ‘Tiptoeing Through the Kitchen’, Luhring Augustine’s latest group show ...man. Somewhere in between a kind of wistful longing arises. Left: Sophia Chai, ㅗ(0927-01), 2023. Courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York. Right:... by Minh Le
Above the Fold Dreaming alongside Sega Bodega ...hazy dreamscape with “Coma Dennis,” Sega Bodega’s newest album, Dennis, unceremoniously plunges into the arpeggiated rush of “Adulter8.” A crooning voice emerges, blending into the... by Will Allstetter
At Large Inside the secret libidinal archive of George Platt Lynes ...talked about George. He was the only one actually, of all the people that knew George, who talked about his sexual habits. I asked all... by Nick Vogelson
Above the Fold Rhizome throws annual gala afterparty in collaboration with NYC-based performance series 29 Speedway The night air whips around the East River-adjacent streets of the Financial District, forming a giant wind tunnel. Concrete and glass monuments—police precincts and towers... by Maya Kotomori
Above the Fold Taking care with the weird, wild, and political literatures of Hard to Read ...never one to be in search of lost time. She co-founded a free clinic for sex workers at Callen-Lorde Community Health Center, and through DecrimNY,... by Hard to Read
Above the Fold Club Document: Celebrating SS24 with Erykah Badu, Michèle Lamy, and Editor-in-Chief Nick Vogelson Inside our Issue 24 launch party featuring hot guests and even hotter DJ sets... by Document Journal
At Large Confronting emerging mythologies from the striptease to gang wars to ‘The Sims’ ...community of creators making “mods” (as they’re commonly known in the community) for it: Mods can enhance and distort the software so heavily that it... by Document Journal
At Large Second Life’s loyal users embrace its decaying software and no-fun imperfections ...commodification of airspace in the city, colloquially known as “NYC air rights.” I think about how the same principle applies across both our second and... by Alice Bucknell
At Large The sincere glamor of Candy Darling New York is full of divas. But despite their popularity, divas don’t always get their critical due. Some legends’ reputations overshadow their own talent. Candy... by Grace Byron
Conversations Jacques Vallée and Jeffrey J. Kripal challenge the limits of knowledge ...’50s, and many new airplanes were coming up and so on. I almost convinced myself that I had seen a prototype of some new device... by Drew Zeiba
Above the Fold At Pageant’s second annual gala, experimental performance reigns supreme ...its coming year of programming, all evaluated by a panel of judges featuring Nile Harris and Yoshiko Chuma among the council, and hosted by fellow... by Maya Kotomori
Above the Fold Artist Julia Weist’s latest exhibition gives audiences the vantage of a private investigator ...their actions in accordance with authority. In her first solo show at New York’s New Art Dealers Alliance fair (NADA) comprising three photographic series, New... by Nick Vogelson
Conversations Clarissa Dalrymple and David Velasco imagine an art world built on human connection ...did you come to New York? Clarissa: Partly, it was the revolution. It was 1968. It had sort of fizzled in England or Europe. But... by David Velasco
Conversations Maya Hawke and Kim Gordon dissect the poetics of commerce ...as the levity of feeling ready to “give up, be loved” (“Black Ice”). Her lyricism goes a step beyond honesty, showing a fearlessness that also... by Maya Kotomori
Above the Fold The Shoptimist Speaks: In conversation with Christine Alcalay ...in order to be able to communicate that through clothing. When I graduated high school, I didn’t want to be on Seventh Avenue in Manhattan.... by Maya Kotomori
Conversations Viggo Mortensen and Ron Howard see storytelling as an act of collaboration ...(2007), he’s a menacing yet enigmatic fixer with ties to London’s most dangerous crime family. However, he’s driven by a mysterious moral compass his compatriots... by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Conversations Erykah Badu and Michèle Lamy summon the spirit of the future ...had five questions in my mind, and they’re very simple questions. Michèle: Tell me. Erykah: Okay, who is the cutest rapper in hip hop to... by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold ESSX drops new photos that show high fashion in the LES wild Along with an interview featuring ESSX’s Laura Baker, Abe Chavez, and Fifi Hodgkinson, the multibrand concept shop has shot a slate of campaign images across... by Document Journal
Conversations The eternal dreams of Jean Paul Gaultier and Simone Rocha ...need a more compelling raison d’être. The year following his retirement from design in 2020, the now 72-year-old Jean Paul Gaultier focused his energy on... by Katharine K. Zarrella
Conversations Isabelle Huppert and Bruce LaBruce capture the profound power of deviance ...great mystery. “I think a lot of your characters are quite romantic,” says Bruce LaBruce, who’s similarly made a career teasing out the philosophical complexities... by Whitney Mallett
Above the Fold Document Launches Spring/Summer 2024: New Mythologies ...visions, alternatives, and speculations. Above all, it’s a collection of ambitious ideas about our culture today and in the future.” Some communities choose to embrace... by Nick Vogelson
Above the Fold ‘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... by Will Allstetter