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
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Conversations An intimate dive in Vince Aletti’s personal collections ...Hujar? Vince—Through a guy named Jim Fouratt. There were a few interesting characters at record companies who were hired because the company had no real... by Nicholas Weist Conversations “It is hard to do ‘new’ when it doesn’t sell”: Richard Buckley on fashion’s ‘new’ problem ...there are elements of art in fashion, it is, above all, a commercial industry. Everyone wants the next new thing up to a point. Katharine—... by Katharine K. Zarrella Above the Fold New report details the horrors of being a mother behind bars ...status, and jurisdiction, making it impossible to obtain comprehensive figures or even reliable estimates of the parental status of women and girls admitted into local... by Caroline Christie Conversations “They were a ‘high-tech’ shoe at the time”: Tennis legend Stan Smith on his iconic Adidas sneaker ...Frog edition, a Star Wars version, and even a Pharrell Williams collaboration. This fall, Rizzoli released Stan Smith: Some People Think I’m a Shoe, which... by Ann Binlot Documented Jack Pierson automates his artistic impulses ...morning, hopefully a less studied version of my “branded” creativity. It had been a while since I was involved in old-fashioned hand work and I... by Jack Pierson Above the Fold 3D-gun advocate Cody Wilson released on $150,000 bond for sexual assault of a minor ...country to avoid arrest for sexual assault of a minor. In August, Cody Wilson, a self-desired “crypto-anarchist” messaged an underage girl through the website SugarDaddyMeet.com—a... by Caroline Christie Above the Fold Wolfgang Tillmans questions himself in David Zwirner exhibition ...with a…It’s not about that. It’s actually not also not purely a political angle this questions has. It’s really about everything, and particularly, and as... by Ann Binlot Above the Fold Prada invites a trio of female architects to reimagine black nylon—its signature fabric ...evolving one of the fashion house’s signature materials. The creative brief gives each architect free reign to create one item of clothing, or accessory, with... by Caroline Christie At Large Denham Fouts: The most expensive male sex worker in the world Through his roommate who worked in a Manhattan bookstore, Denny met best-selling author Glenway Wescott who frequented the shop. Thirty-three-year-old Wescott, who had traveled widely... by Arthur Vanderbilt Above the Fold Jil Sander’s latest collection springs forth Since their start in 2017, Luke and Lucie Meier have approached their reign over Jil Sander by leading with intuition and a consciousness for materiality.... by Shawn Lakin Above the Fold Riccardo Tisci’s Burberry debut signals a new era for the storied British fashion house ...the prestigious Central Saint Martins in 1999—so his debut collection as chief creative officer of Burberry signaled coming full circle for the designer. “I was... by Ann Binlot Above the Fold Why didn’t we learn from Anita Hill? Like the scandal 30 years ago, professor accuses Supreme Court nominee Kavanaugh of sexual assault ...to endure that again.” But some commentators have been quick to the turn the tables, suggesting that Democrats are trying to leverage comparisons between Ford... by Caroline Christie Above the Fold Inside the atelier: Document visits the London studio of Ports 1961 ...the label in New York in 2004. In 2011 it moved back to Europe, first in Milan, then London in 2017, where Nataša Čagalj has... by Alice Lefons Above the Fold Damien Hirst’s secondary market is a “bloodbath” Now may not be the best time to resell a Damien Hirst. New analysis by Artnet News reveals that the value of resold artworks from... by Caroline Christie Above the Fold The New York Fashion Week report: Model diversity on the rise, school is in session, and leopard love New York Fashion Week wrapped up its Spring/Summer 2019 season this week, with dozens of designers showing their latest collections throughout the city’s empty warehouses,... by Ann Binlot At Large A look back at Gore Vidal’s “sexual paradise” ...gay. The bestselling author and commentator, who died, aged 86, in July 2012, never came out. For him, gay and homosexual were redundant, meaningless categories.... by Tim Teeman Above the Fold Rising entrepreneurial star in China turns out to be social media catfish Shi Runlong was fast becoming a notable commenter in Chinese media—until three days ago. A Harvard Business graduate, his social media profile is littered with... by Caroline Christie Above the Fold Meet New Pandemics, the modeling agency that’s looking to bring queer visibility to the forefront ...does occur. It may come down to educating the client through having difficult conversations and opening that discourse, I feel it really does serve the... by Ann Binlot Above the Fold London Fashion Week goes fur free ...world. The council said it was a combination of industry and audience that helped them eventually come to conclusion: “Cultural change based on ideas and... by Caroline Christie Above the Fold Russian scientists speed up the internet ...the laboratories scattered all over the world, make inquiries to the computer centers of the Cern. They also need to exchange both textual information and... by Caroline Christie Conversations COS head of menswear design Christophe Copin takes the deep dive into movement ...only in quality of fabric but also quality in design. Our product stands for a quality that is still really accessible and comparably affordable for... by Ann Binlot Above the Fold Recalling the big hair and even bigger personalities of Wigstock ...of people and of hair volume by turning it into a full-fledged festival rising to around 50,000 hair and drag enthusiasts a decade later in... by Shawn Lakin Conversations Larry Clark and Chloë Sevigny reunite and reminisce ...it’s going to come out there. Then I’m going back to New York. And then I might come back and give it a whirl with... by Chloë Sevigny Above the Fold What does AI-generated art look like? ...with the faces in Klingemann’s series, or Atkins’s images of flora—to computer-generated abstraction, like those in Tom White’s abstract interpretation of a fan. They bring... by Ann Binlot Above the Fold Shanel Campbell is on the verge ...another brand alongside being a professor. After some time, I found myself coming up with a bunch of ideas that I had this strong desire... by Samuel Gamberg Above the Fold Hermès and Pierre Charpin join forces for La Serpentine ...created a gradient design for scarves, with Julio Le Parc then contributing his geometric abstraction in 2015 to the Hermès Éditeur series. Now the latest... by Ann Binlot Above the Fold Looking back at the ‘Beautiful Losers’ In the early ’90s downtown New York was free from voyeuristic social media apps like Instagram, as well as the moneyed entrepreneurs and corporate retailers... by Ann Binlot Above the Fold And now, a geographic breakdown of America’s sexism ...Singapore have compiled an index of sexist attitudes in order to see if salaries, work environments and marriage rates of women were impacted by the... by Caroline Christie Above the Fold One artist brings the Acne Studios Manhattan Sneaker on a journey through the ’90s Artist Grace Ahlbom opens her latest project, a one-minute fashion film highlighting Acne Studios’s Fall/Winter 2018 sneaker line, sitting on her blue BMX bike pedaling... by Ann Binlot Above the Fold France wants to end snobbery, democratize culture, through multimillion-dollar app France’s latest attempt to harness its political soft power is a Tinder-style app that lets you swipe left or right to discover new types of... by Caroline Christie Above the Fold Rapper Killer Mike is the newest board member of Atlanta’s High Museum ...is set to become the new director of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, was met with questions over appointing another white male to... by Caroline Christie Documented Stef Mitchell captures a haunting adolescence in ‘One Damn Thing After Another’ ...come to be revered for, incorporating unassuming photography of adolescents combined with her own personal imprint. The zine combines a fragmented narrative comprised of pencil... by Shawn Lakin Above the Fold The UK’s visa problems are crippling the country’s cultural scene Various cultural events and gathering in the UK have been reporting a number of issues of international artists trying to obtain visas, with one notable... by Caroline Christie At Large The complexities of getting off in the age of technological pleasure For the past decade, in a nondescript building in San Marcos, California, Matt McMullen has been making sex dolls. His latest and greatest creation is... by Cody Delistraty Above the Fold The photographer who made the biggest names of the 20th century beautiful In 1907, a year after signing up for a business licence to be a professional photographer and receiving her first official portrait commission, Dora Kallmus... by Ann Binlot At Large Information overload: When everything is everywhere, how do we understand what’s important? ...consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer.” First, while we are all distracted by the latest... by Brendan Nyhan At Large Fashion Nova on the rise ...big that number is, its competitors’ hashtags are significantly lower; #NastyGal has 274,000 posts while #Revolve has 132,000. The posts contain all the elements of... by Ann Binlot Conversations Vaginal Davis skypes with artist Bjarne Melgaard about toe sucking, Xerox parties, and her many personas ...the fact that me and Susanne are going to stage this version as a performative installation is like coming back home. It’s coming home, sweetie... by Nick Vogelson Above the Fold Belgium fights back against Facebook’s problem with Old Master nudes ...the BBC. The battle brings up some important questions: where is the line drawn between the obscene and the tasteful when it comes to nudity... by Caroline Christie Above the Fold Harley Weir directs a new A.P.C. film starring it-model Paul Hameline ...pose. Next comes Sohyun Jung, debuting in a monochromatic shot a red corduroy jacket against a rouge background, stroking the crimson Anthurium flower against her... by Ann Binlot Above the Fold Eckhaus Latta tests the boundaries between fashion, art and commerce at The Whitney ...bear text reading “Most Places Come Undone.” “Just because anybody at any time could walk into any store doesn’t mean that they’re going to feel... by Jocelyn Silver Above the Fold Ai Weiwei’s studio demolished in wave of destruction against Beijing’s contemporary art community ...clouds of dust caused by the sudden demolition of a studio he has been using since 2006. The latest one, posted today, clearly shows all... by Caroline Christie Conversations Detroit artists Jova Lynne and Mario Moore question the class and racial complexities of leisure ...somebodies labor is giving me this version of it. It’s this thing that exists in this liminal space of something that is both based on... by Megan Wray Schertler Above the Fold The case for a museum director who isn’t white or male ...women representing 48% of art museum directorships in 2016 (compared to 43 percent in 2013).” However, when it comes to the country’s 13 largest museums,... by Ann Binlot At Large Author Chris Kraus interrogates social practice in her upcoming book of the same name ...known for developing the Theatre of Cruelty. Kraus also co-runs Semiotext(e), an independent publisher that has been significant in dispersing French critical theory in the... by Emily Wells Conversations Frédéric Sanchez and Laurie Anderson discuss the relationship between image and sound ...sound. For example, 30 years ago when I was 15, I was completely obsessed with music, but I didn’t see myself as a musician. I... by Blake Abbie Above the Fold 20 states sue Donald Trump to curtail bizarre 3D-printed gun u-turn ...files publicly available again, the Second Amendment — the right to keep and bear arms — fanatics flooded the Defense Distributed website with their designs.... by Caroline Christie Conversations Illustrator Eri Wakiyama and jewelry designer Yoon Skype about how creativity can’t be taught ...would go on to meet many of the creative elites who frequented the shop, like Yoon, the jewelry designer behind the Japanese label Ambush. Linked... by Blake Abbie Above the Fold The child separation crisis at the border is far from over ...the Trump administration has failed to rectify the serious lapse in judgment that has seen children housed in cages and pregnant women shackled. This latest... by Caroline Christie Above the Fold Most of the female writers you know have experienced sexual harassment ...films hasn’t been as forward thinking as we all think. According to USC Annenberg School of Journalism’s latest annual report examining diversity in the top... by Caroline Christie
Conversations An intimate dive in Vince Aletti’s personal collections ...Hujar? Vince—Through a guy named Jim Fouratt. There were a few interesting characters at record companies who were hired because the company had no real... by Nicholas Weist
Conversations “It is hard to do ‘new’ when it doesn’t sell”: Richard Buckley on fashion’s ‘new’ problem ...there are elements of art in fashion, it is, above all, a commercial industry. Everyone wants the next new thing up to a point. Katharine—... by Katharine K. Zarrella
Above the Fold New report details the horrors of being a mother behind bars ...status, and jurisdiction, making it impossible to obtain comprehensive figures or even reliable estimates of the parental status of women and girls admitted into local... by Caroline Christie
Conversations “They were a ‘high-tech’ shoe at the time”: Tennis legend Stan Smith on his iconic Adidas sneaker ...Frog edition, a Star Wars version, and even a Pharrell Williams collaboration. This fall, Rizzoli released Stan Smith: Some People Think I’m a Shoe, which... by Ann Binlot
Documented Jack Pierson automates his artistic impulses ...morning, hopefully a less studied version of my “branded” creativity. It had been a while since I was involved in old-fashioned hand work and I... by Jack Pierson
Above the Fold 3D-gun advocate Cody Wilson released on $150,000 bond for sexual assault of a minor ...country to avoid arrest for sexual assault of a minor. In August, Cody Wilson, a self-desired “crypto-anarchist” messaged an underage girl through the website SugarDaddyMeet.com—a... by Caroline Christie
Above the Fold Wolfgang Tillmans questions himself in David Zwirner exhibition ...with a…It’s not about that. It’s actually not also not purely a political angle this questions has. It’s really about everything, and particularly, and as... by Ann Binlot
Above the Fold Prada invites a trio of female architects to reimagine black nylon—its signature fabric ...evolving one of the fashion house’s signature materials. The creative brief gives each architect free reign to create one item of clothing, or accessory, with... by Caroline Christie
At Large Denham Fouts: The most expensive male sex worker in the world Through his roommate who worked in a Manhattan bookstore, Denny met best-selling author Glenway Wescott who frequented the shop. Thirty-three-year-old Wescott, who had traveled widely... by Arthur Vanderbilt
Above the Fold Jil Sander’s latest collection springs forth Since their start in 2017, Luke and Lucie Meier have approached their reign over Jil Sander by leading with intuition and a consciousness for materiality.... by Shawn Lakin
Above the Fold Riccardo Tisci’s Burberry debut signals a new era for the storied British fashion house ...the prestigious Central Saint Martins in 1999—so his debut collection as chief creative officer of Burberry signaled coming full circle for the designer. “I was... by Ann Binlot
Above the Fold Why didn’t we learn from Anita Hill? Like the scandal 30 years ago, professor accuses Supreme Court nominee Kavanaugh of sexual assault ...to endure that again.” But some commentators have been quick to the turn the tables, suggesting that Democrats are trying to leverage comparisons between Ford... by Caroline Christie
Above the Fold Inside the atelier: Document visits the London studio of Ports 1961 ...the label in New York in 2004. In 2011 it moved back to Europe, first in Milan, then London in 2017, where Nataša Čagalj has... by Alice Lefons
Above the Fold Damien Hirst’s secondary market is a “bloodbath” Now may not be the best time to resell a Damien Hirst. New analysis by Artnet News reveals that the value of resold artworks from... by Caroline Christie
Above the Fold The New York Fashion Week report: Model diversity on the rise, school is in session, and leopard love New York Fashion Week wrapped up its Spring/Summer 2019 season this week, with dozens of designers showing their latest collections throughout the city’s empty warehouses,... by Ann Binlot
At Large A look back at Gore Vidal’s “sexual paradise” ...gay. The bestselling author and commentator, who died, aged 86, in July 2012, never came out. For him, gay and homosexual were redundant, meaningless categories.... by Tim Teeman
Above the Fold Rising entrepreneurial star in China turns out to be social media catfish Shi Runlong was fast becoming a notable commenter in Chinese media—until three days ago. A Harvard Business graduate, his social media profile is littered with... by Caroline Christie
Above the Fold Meet New Pandemics, the modeling agency that’s looking to bring queer visibility to the forefront ...does occur. It may come down to educating the client through having difficult conversations and opening that discourse, I feel it really does serve the... by Ann Binlot
Above the Fold London Fashion Week goes fur free ...world. The council said it was a combination of industry and audience that helped them eventually come to conclusion: “Cultural change based on ideas and... by Caroline Christie
Above the Fold Russian scientists speed up the internet ...the laboratories scattered all over the world, make inquiries to the computer centers of the Cern. They also need to exchange both textual information and... by Caroline Christie
Conversations COS head of menswear design Christophe Copin takes the deep dive into movement ...only in quality of fabric but also quality in design. Our product stands for a quality that is still really accessible and comparably affordable for... by Ann Binlot
Above the Fold Recalling the big hair and even bigger personalities of Wigstock ...of people and of hair volume by turning it into a full-fledged festival rising to around 50,000 hair and drag enthusiasts a decade later in... by Shawn Lakin
Conversations Larry Clark and Chloë Sevigny reunite and reminisce ...it’s going to come out there. Then I’m going back to New York. And then I might come back and give it a whirl with... by Chloë Sevigny
Above the Fold What does AI-generated art look like? ...with the faces in Klingemann’s series, or Atkins’s images of flora—to computer-generated abstraction, like those in Tom White’s abstract interpretation of a fan. They bring... by Ann Binlot
Above the Fold Shanel Campbell is on the verge ...another brand alongside being a professor. After some time, I found myself coming up with a bunch of ideas that I had this strong desire... by Samuel Gamberg
Above the Fold Hermès and Pierre Charpin join forces for La Serpentine ...created a gradient design for scarves, with Julio Le Parc then contributing his geometric abstraction in 2015 to the Hermès Éditeur series. Now the latest... by Ann Binlot
Above the Fold Looking back at the ‘Beautiful Losers’ In the early ’90s downtown New York was free from voyeuristic social media apps like Instagram, as well as the moneyed entrepreneurs and corporate retailers... by Ann Binlot
Above the Fold And now, a geographic breakdown of America’s sexism ...Singapore have compiled an index of sexist attitudes in order to see if salaries, work environments and marriage rates of women were impacted by the... by Caroline Christie
Above the Fold One artist brings the Acne Studios Manhattan Sneaker on a journey through the ’90s Artist Grace Ahlbom opens her latest project, a one-minute fashion film highlighting Acne Studios’s Fall/Winter 2018 sneaker line, sitting on her blue BMX bike pedaling... by Ann Binlot
Above the Fold France wants to end snobbery, democratize culture, through multimillion-dollar app France’s latest attempt to harness its political soft power is a Tinder-style app that lets you swipe left or right to discover new types of... by Caroline Christie
Above the Fold Rapper Killer Mike is the newest board member of Atlanta’s High Museum ...is set to become the new director of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, was met with questions over appointing another white male to... by Caroline Christie
Documented Stef Mitchell captures a haunting adolescence in ‘One Damn Thing After Another’ ...come to be revered for, incorporating unassuming photography of adolescents combined with her own personal imprint. The zine combines a fragmented narrative comprised of pencil... by Shawn Lakin
Above the Fold The UK’s visa problems are crippling the country’s cultural scene Various cultural events and gathering in the UK have been reporting a number of issues of international artists trying to obtain visas, with one notable... by Caroline Christie
At Large The complexities of getting off in the age of technological pleasure For the past decade, in a nondescript building in San Marcos, California, Matt McMullen has been making sex dolls. His latest and greatest creation is... by Cody Delistraty
Above the Fold The photographer who made the biggest names of the 20th century beautiful In 1907, a year after signing up for a business licence to be a professional photographer and receiving her first official portrait commission, Dora Kallmus... by Ann Binlot
At Large Information overload: When everything is everywhere, how do we understand what’s important? ...consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer.” First, while we are all distracted by the latest... by Brendan Nyhan
At Large Fashion Nova on the rise ...big that number is, its competitors’ hashtags are significantly lower; #NastyGal has 274,000 posts while #Revolve has 132,000. The posts contain all the elements of... by Ann Binlot
Conversations Vaginal Davis skypes with artist Bjarne Melgaard about toe sucking, Xerox parties, and her many personas ...the fact that me and Susanne are going to stage this version as a performative installation is like coming back home. It’s coming home, sweetie... by Nick Vogelson
Above the Fold Belgium fights back against Facebook’s problem with Old Master nudes ...the BBC. The battle brings up some important questions: where is the line drawn between the obscene and the tasteful when it comes to nudity... by Caroline Christie
Above the Fold Harley Weir directs a new A.P.C. film starring it-model Paul Hameline ...pose. Next comes Sohyun Jung, debuting in a monochromatic shot a red corduroy jacket against a rouge background, stroking the crimson Anthurium flower against her... by Ann Binlot
Above the Fold Eckhaus Latta tests the boundaries between fashion, art and commerce at The Whitney ...bear text reading “Most Places Come Undone.” “Just because anybody at any time could walk into any store doesn’t mean that they’re going to feel... by Jocelyn Silver
Above the Fold Ai Weiwei’s studio demolished in wave of destruction against Beijing’s contemporary art community ...clouds of dust caused by the sudden demolition of a studio he has been using since 2006. The latest one, posted today, clearly shows all... by Caroline Christie
Conversations Detroit artists Jova Lynne and Mario Moore question the class and racial complexities of leisure ...somebodies labor is giving me this version of it. It’s this thing that exists in this liminal space of something that is both based on... by Megan Wray Schertler
Above the Fold The case for a museum director who isn’t white or male ...women representing 48% of art museum directorships in 2016 (compared to 43 percent in 2013).” However, when it comes to the country’s 13 largest museums,... by Ann Binlot
At Large Author Chris Kraus interrogates social practice in her upcoming book of the same name ...known for developing the Theatre of Cruelty. Kraus also co-runs Semiotext(e), an independent publisher that has been significant in dispersing French critical theory in the... by Emily Wells
Conversations Frédéric Sanchez and Laurie Anderson discuss the relationship between image and sound ...sound. For example, 30 years ago when I was 15, I was completely obsessed with music, but I didn’t see myself as a musician. I... by Blake Abbie
Above the Fold 20 states sue Donald Trump to curtail bizarre 3D-printed gun u-turn ...files publicly available again, the Second Amendment — the right to keep and bear arms — fanatics flooded the Defense Distributed website with their designs.... by Caroline Christie
Conversations Illustrator Eri Wakiyama and jewelry designer Yoon Skype about how creativity can’t be taught ...would go on to meet many of the creative elites who frequented the shop, like Yoon, the jewelry designer behind the Japanese label Ambush. Linked... by Blake Abbie
Above the Fold The child separation crisis at the border is far from over ...the Trump administration has failed to rectify the serious lapse in judgment that has seen children housed in cages and pregnant women shackled. This latest... by Caroline Christie
Above the Fold Most of the female writers you know have experienced sexual harassment ...films hasn’t been as forward thinking as we all think. According to USC Annenberg School of Journalism’s latest annual report examining diversity in the top... by Caroline Christie