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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Above the Fold ‘A Queen Within’ and the celebration of unchecked female power ...dress forms. The unusual shapes are a great example of how these archetypes of female power, and the way that women adorn themselves to communicate... by Megan Wray Schertler Above the Fold Former Interview editor Bob Colacello looks back on the magazine that did it all ...it was announced yesterday that Andy Warhol’s baby had shuttered for good, leaving its employees to pen Twitter eulogies and download their emails all before... by Nathan Taylor Pemberton Above the Fold Byredo’s Ben Gorham on making ‘Elevator Music’ with Virgil Abloh The forward-thinking perfumer’s latest collaboration with the Off-White founder is anything but forgettable.... by Ann Binlot Documented Katharina Grosse rejects your idea that painting is archaic ...sides. At the same time, the specific architecture of Carriageworks would still be visible, with the light coming from above and with the columns that... by Drew Sawyer Above the Fold Tbilisi’s clubgoers protest for open culture despite strict drug laws and white nationalists ...that can only accommodate 23 patients. Vocal objectors to the government’s enforcement often cite a correlation between the country’s relentless drug tests and the hefty... by Caroline Christie Conversations Luca Guadagnino has conquered love, now he hopes to scare the world A satisfied exhaustion is the tenor of Luca Guadagnino’s conversational manner, these days. Understandable, when you consider that the 46-year-old Italian filmmaker is coming off... by Nathan Taylor Pemberton Fashion Portfolio Backstage as Tbilisi’s Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week comes into its magnificent own Tbilisi is the latest city making its case as hub for fashion outside of the big four of Paris, Milan, New York and London. The... by Document Journal At Large If you haven’t a sense of humor, don’t speak to Geoff Dyer. Or read his books. ...with Dyer’s additional nonfiction works, nine in total, are all what one would call “genre-dying”—genre being a distinction that he considers to be hollow, anyhow.... by Emily Wells Above the Fold An exhibit celebrating fashion’s fascination with ‘Heavenly Bodies’ ...2014 haute couture. Both images, Digital Composite Scan by Katerina Jebb. Exhibition curator Andrew Bolton and his team made a point to juxtapose the contemporary... by Ann Binlot Above the Fold Uber’s self-driving car purposefully ignored the pedestrian it fatally struck ...moving within the vicinity of the vehicle. According to an internal report compiled in the wake of the tragedy, the company has seemed to tacitly... by Caroline Christie Above the Fold How Prada’s music producer Frédéric Sanchez landed on 90s classics for their 2019 Resort show ...kind of completely the opposite of what I was saying five minutes ago. That’s why we used a few pieces of music that felt very... by Megan Wray Schertler Conversations If knowledge is power, then coders like Fereshteh Forough and Barbara Liskov will inherit the earth ...finished high school. Though she had no background in computer science, she passed the entrance exam for the subject at Herat University and earned a... by Daisy Prince Above the Fold Smuggled into Claire Fontaine’s ‘Untitled (Tennis Ball Sculpture)’ ...Century Pictures space) they underscore that outlook by use of a dog’s best friend: the tennis ball. Dozens of them, actually, all sliced open and... by Joshua Seidner Conversations Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asia Kate Dillon on the fine art of creative survival ...that an artist’s duty is to reflect the times. I think art is one of the greatest ways for people to find compassion within themselves,... by Megan Wray Schertler Conversations Ermenegildo Zegna’s artistic director, Alessandro Sartori, finds inspiration close to home ...one company, and the whole area is suffused with a very high level of understanding when it comes to tailoring. Mark—And that company you’re referring... by Mark Smith Above the Fold A closer look at Ai Weiwei’s selfie with the leader of Germany’s anti-immigrant party ...“leftist sheep” whereas others asked if the Weiwei was now in favor of AfD’s immigration policies, including opposing Germany’s open-door policy toward migrants. https://twitter.com/Alice_Weidel/status/986698208666669057 Weiwei,... by Caroline Christie Conversations In Furs by Lorna Simpson ...be an interesting process of free association, what I come up with. So in that way, in terms of free association and idiosyncratic ways of... by Daniella Rose King Conversations Meet the women of Rome’s first all-female motorcycle club ...compared to other clubs we do not require any membership fee, so it’s completely open, and we accept any bike. Claudia—Yes, we have Harley Davidson,... by David Plaisant At Large Visions of Vigilantism ...violent promise embedded in its cinematic pallor and in its ragged labor to obtain the essence of a trope. The substrate of all American vigilantism... by Jonathon Sturgeon Above the Fold A warm London night to celebrate the Spring/Summer 2018 issue with MatchesFashion.com ...Megan Wray Schertler, visual director Michael Quinn, MatchesFashion.com’s Jess Christi, Richard Bush, Laurence Ellis, MatchesFashion.com’s Natalie Kingham, Tom Ordoyno, Gary David Moore, Damien Charles Paul,... by Maraya Fisher Above the Fold Michael Pinsky’s latest installation, ‘Pollution Pods,’ deemed too toxic for the public ...any deadly toxins. On the Somerset House website, the gallery clarifies how the new version of the artwork mitigates any risk: “Using Airlabs technology, all... by Caroline Christie Conversations For Chloé’s creative director, Natacha Ramsay-Levi, inspiration springs from routine ...that it’s a skeleton, would you say that having set rituals allows you to move more freely in your day-to-day and to be more creative?... by Megan Wray Schertler At Large In ‘Blue Self-Portrait’ Noémi Lefebvre created a space to breathe ...all the material. Document—Yes, it really seemed a combination of the topics from your education—music, politics, national identity. How did you decide that a novel... by Cody Delistraty At Large Automated for the people ...protestors and nascent subcultural groups—hip-hop and skateboarding—fusing workwear with elements of subversion, rebellion, and unequivocal style. Workwear companies like Carhartt and Dickies have, of late,... by Mindy Meissen Above the Fold British prosectors can’t tell the difference between art and ‘revenge porn’ ...the female gaze. Failing to find a willing collaborator, she decided to include a heavily cropped version of an ex-boyfriend, among other images. Smith was... by Caroline Christie At Large Lucie and Luke Meier are in pursuit of minimalism’s soul ...and old-school in the minimalist halls of Jil Sander. It was the best of both worlds creating the ultimate balance in streetwear and tailoring. “It’s... by Anders Christian Madsen Above the Fold Amy Arbus on her photo ‘Julio Q’ ...the Village Voice were taken of whomever I found on the street or in interesting clothing stores. What was so challenging was how to find... by Vetle Egeland Above the Fold Who’s that in the garden? The latest monograph from Aperture, The Photographer in the Garden, is a simple homage to the garden's delicate perfection.... by Vetle Egeland Above the Fold Researchers are measuring your ego’s development by combing through 25 years worth of human language ...to use less self-centered words such as “I,” replacing them instead with more complex terms such as “but” and “although.” Using the Washington University Sentence... by Caroline Christie Conversations Novelists Édouard Louis and Zadie Smith on writing in a distracting political present ...of the United States, as well as in her native United Kingdom. Feel Free, a new collection of her essays released this past January, is... by Nathan Taylor Pemberton Above the Fold Making sense of YouTube’s creepy relationship with kids ...a Commercial-Free Childhood who is also leading the coalition, told the New York Times that YouTube had been “actively packaging under-13 content for advertisers. Barbie... by Caroline Christie Above the Fold “What is an artist’s responsibility?” Introducing Document S/S 2018 ...artist who set the mold for socially conscious work, and her claim that an artist’s duty is “to reflect the times.” It will, perhaps, come... by Nick Vogelson Above the Fold The UK and Russia are throwing unprecedented amounts of literary shade at each other ...is: ‘sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast,’ so I think that’s the quote that suits my Russian colleague best.” Pierce... by Caroline Christie At Large The existential paranoia fueling Elon Musk’s fear of AI ...decisions, but human input biased COMPAS from the outset. Compton went on to describe how her “colleagues of the Elon Musk personality type” argued that... by Katherine Cross Above the Fold How Grindr and Facebook are networking shame ...wider attention; that the app was offering any qualifying HIV testing sites free advertising to its 3.6 million US users to encourage regularly STI test.... by Caroline Christie At Large Aggregators of anxiety In glistening, antidepressant blue, a geist-like figure rises from the collapsed body of what appears to be a crash test dummy. Skeletal coils drift... by Barrett White At Large Amen Dunes makes peace with freedom ...songs on Freedom are roving and unsatisfied. Its hungry rhythms in pursuit of his possessed voice. The contemporary aspect of McMahon’s take on rock and... by Nathan Taylor Pemberton Above the Fold The Oxford English Dictionary essentially created a new word for gender nonconformity ...of new entries. And yesterday, marked a first, when the dictionary announced that the word “trans*” was to be included in their latest quarterly update.... by Caroline Christie Conversations Composers Steve Reich and Nico Muhly on the music’s ecstatic expressions ...study African drumming, and composed, continuously, radically inventive minimal pieces, including “Drumming” (1971) and “Music for 18 Musicians” (1974—1976). Equally notable are Reich’s sociopolitical sensitivities:... by Ashley Simpson Above the Fold The delirious diary: Art Basel in Hong Kong ...in hopes of promoting their label. To partiers, it’s a week full of the most decadent, alcohol-fueled nights. To Hong Kong, Art Basel is the... by Ann Binlot Above the Fold Joel Sternfeld on his photo ‘After A Flash Flood, Rancho Mirage’ ...they asked if I had seen the Trans Am. I hadn’t seen it because so many streets were closed. They took me out at night... by Vetle Egeland At Large The end of fur as we know it? ...Calvin Klein pioneered the initiative, having had a house ban since 1994. Stella McCartney founded her eponymous label in 2001 as a “100 percent animal-cruelty-free... by Divya Bala Above the Fold Voyaging into Lucy Dodd’s magical family space ...out floral bouquets and croissants from Balthazar. The sense of occasion that comes from “coming back for an afternoon, like we’re here for a matinee,”... by Joshua Seidner Documented Rineke Dijkstra and capturing the awkward blooms of youth The commodification of youth is one of photography’s more tired acts. Often a vain effort to simply capture that unrecoverable essence, or a mad scramble... by Phil Backes Above the Fold North Korea is waging a war against its most precious pastime: karaoke ...with foreign businessmen said to be the top frequenters. Still, as Radio Free Asia notes, the drinking establishments are closing at a constant rate, with... by Caroline Christie Conversations Curator Alissa Bennett details the dark side to Lena Dunham ...choices made by Satanists. One day we were asked to come into class wearing an outfit that truly expressed us. We all picked our favorite... by Lena Dunham At Large Saskia de Brauw says the #MeToo moment has made her rethink ‘normal’ ...corner. Much of de Brauw’s creative explorations, such as her latest film and book project, Ghosts Don’t Walk In Straight Lines, inquires after the physical... by Divya Bala Above the Fold Land degradation is the panic-button environmental issue that will affect millions across the globe ...plants are destroying the earth’s surface according to new research by the intergovernmental body that assesses the state of biodiversity, the IPBES. According to the... by Caroline Christie Conversations Designer Kris Van Assche and musician Yoann Lemoine reflect on the last decade in fashion and look to the future ...score and follows rules. Inside this, I try to just bring a couple of little bombs, either beats that come from hip hop or codes... by Divya Bala Above the Fold The Uber fatality highlights the plight of the American pedestrian ...road with her bike. The incident has left many people asking the same two questions: Why did the car’s software fail to see Elaine, and... by Caroline Christie
Above the Fold ‘A Queen Within’ and the celebration of unchecked female power ...dress forms. The unusual shapes are a great example of how these archetypes of female power, and the way that women adorn themselves to communicate... by Megan Wray Schertler
Above the Fold Former Interview editor Bob Colacello looks back on the magazine that did it all ...it was announced yesterday that Andy Warhol’s baby had shuttered for good, leaving its employees to pen Twitter eulogies and download their emails all before... by Nathan Taylor Pemberton
Above the Fold Byredo’s Ben Gorham on making ‘Elevator Music’ with Virgil Abloh The forward-thinking perfumer’s latest collaboration with the Off-White founder is anything but forgettable.... by Ann Binlot
Documented Katharina Grosse rejects your idea that painting is archaic ...sides. At the same time, the specific architecture of Carriageworks would still be visible, with the light coming from above and with the columns that... by Drew Sawyer
Above the Fold Tbilisi’s clubgoers protest for open culture despite strict drug laws and white nationalists ...that can only accommodate 23 patients. Vocal objectors to the government’s enforcement often cite a correlation between the country’s relentless drug tests and the hefty... by Caroline Christie
Conversations Luca Guadagnino has conquered love, now he hopes to scare the world A satisfied exhaustion is the tenor of Luca Guadagnino’s conversational manner, these days. Understandable, when you consider that the 46-year-old Italian filmmaker is coming off... by Nathan Taylor Pemberton
Fashion Portfolio Backstage as Tbilisi’s Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week comes into its magnificent own Tbilisi is the latest city making its case as hub for fashion outside of the big four of Paris, Milan, New York and London. The... by Document Journal
At Large If you haven’t a sense of humor, don’t speak to Geoff Dyer. Or read his books. ...with Dyer’s additional nonfiction works, nine in total, are all what one would call “genre-dying”—genre being a distinction that he considers to be hollow, anyhow.... by Emily Wells
Above the Fold An exhibit celebrating fashion’s fascination with ‘Heavenly Bodies’ ...2014 haute couture. Both images, Digital Composite Scan by Katerina Jebb. Exhibition curator Andrew Bolton and his team made a point to juxtapose the contemporary... by Ann Binlot
Above the Fold Uber’s self-driving car purposefully ignored the pedestrian it fatally struck ...moving within the vicinity of the vehicle. According to an internal report compiled in the wake of the tragedy, the company has seemed to tacitly... by Caroline Christie
Above the Fold How Prada’s music producer Frédéric Sanchez landed on 90s classics for their 2019 Resort show ...kind of completely the opposite of what I was saying five minutes ago. That’s why we used a few pieces of music that felt very... by Megan Wray Schertler
Conversations If knowledge is power, then coders like Fereshteh Forough and Barbara Liskov will inherit the earth ...finished high school. Though she had no background in computer science, she passed the entrance exam for the subject at Herat University and earned a... by Daisy Prince
Above the Fold Smuggled into Claire Fontaine’s ‘Untitled (Tennis Ball Sculpture)’ ...Century Pictures space) they underscore that outlook by use of a dog’s best friend: the tennis ball. Dozens of them, actually, all sliced open and... by Joshua Seidner
Conversations Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asia Kate Dillon on the fine art of creative survival ...that an artist’s duty is to reflect the times. I think art is one of the greatest ways for people to find compassion within themselves,... by Megan Wray Schertler
Conversations Ermenegildo Zegna’s artistic director, Alessandro Sartori, finds inspiration close to home ...one company, and the whole area is suffused with a very high level of understanding when it comes to tailoring. Mark—And that company you’re referring... by Mark Smith
Above the Fold A closer look at Ai Weiwei’s selfie with the leader of Germany’s anti-immigrant party ...“leftist sheep” whereas others asked if the Weiwei was now in favor of AfD’s immigration policies, including opposing Germany’s open-door policy toward migrants. https://twitter.com/Alice_Weidel/status/986698208666669057 Weiwei,... by Caroline Christie
Conversations In Furs by Lorna Simpson ...be an interesting process of free association, what I come up with. So in that way, in terms of free association and idiosyncratic ways of... by Daniella Rose King
Conversations Meet the women of Rome’s first all-female motorcycle club ...compared to other clubs we do not require any membership fee, so it’s completely open, and we accept any bike. Claudia—Yes, we have Harley Davidson,... by David Plaisant
At Large Visions of Vigilantism ...violent promise embedded in its cinematic pallor and in its ragged labor to obtain the essence of a trope. The substrate of all American vigilantism... by Jonathon Sturgeon
Above the Fold A warm London night to celebrate the Spring/Summer 2018 issue with MatchesFashion.com ...Megan Wray Schertler, visual director Michael Quinn, MatchesFashion.com’s Jess Christi, Richard Bush, Laurence Ellis, MatchesFashion.com’s Natalie Kingham, Tom Ordoyno, Gary David Moore, Damien Charles Paul,... by Maraya Fisher
Above the Fold Michael Pinsky’s latest installation, ‘Pollution Pods,’ deemed too toxic for the public ...any deadly toxins. On the Somerset House website, the gallery clarifies how the new version of the artwork mitigates any risk: “Using Airlabs technology, all... by Caroline Christie
Conversations For Chloé’s creative director, Natacha Ramsay-Levi, inspiration springs from routine ...that it’s a skeleton, would you say that having set rituals allows you to move more freely in your day-to-day and to be more creative?... by Megan Wray Schertler
At Large In ‘Blue Self-Portrait’ Noémi Lefebvre created a space to breathe ...all the material. Document—Yes, it really seemed a combination of the topics from your education—music, politics, national identity. How did you decide that a novel... by Cody Delistraty
At Large Automated for the people ...protestors and nascent subcultural groups—hip-hop and skateboarding—fusing workwear with elements of subversion, rebellion, and unequivocal style. Workwear companies like Carhartt and Dickies have, of late,... by Mindy Meissen
Above the Fold British prosectors can’t tell the difference between art and ‘revenge porn’ ...the female gaze. Failing to find a willing collaborator, she decided to include a heavily cropped version of an ex-boyfriend, among other images. Smith was... by Caroline Christie
At Large Lucie and Luke Meier are in pursuit of minimalism’s soul ...and old-school in the minimalist halls of Jil Sander. It was the best of both worlds creating the ultimate balance in streetwear and tailoring. “It’s... by Anders Christian Madsen
Above the Fold Amy Arbus on her photo ‘Julio Q’ ...the Village Voice were taken of whomever I found on the street or in interesting clothing stores. What was so challenging was how to find... by Vetle Egeland
Above the Fold Who’s that in the garden? The latest monograph from Aperture, The Photographer in the Garden, is a simple homage to the garden's delicate perfection.... by Vetle Egeland
Above the Fold Researchers are measuring your ego’s development by combing through 25 years worth of human language ...to use less self-centered words such as “I,” replacing them instead with more complex terms such as “but” and “although.” Using the Washington University Sentence... by Caroline Christie
Conversations Novelists Édouard Louis and Zadie Smith on writing in a distracting political present ...of the United States, as well as in her native United Kingdom. Feel Free, a new collection of her essays released this past January, is... by Nathan Taylor Pemberton
Above the Fold Making sense of YouTube’s creepy relationship with kids ...a Commercial-Free Childhood who is also leading the coalition, told the New York Times that YouTube had been “actively packaging under-13 content for advertisers. Barbie... by Caroline Christie
Above the Fold “What is an artist’s responsibility?” Introducing Document S/S 2018 ...artist who set the mold for socially conscious work, and her claim that an artist’s duty is “to reflect the times.” It will, perhaps, come... by Nick Vogelson
Above the Fold The UK and Russia are throwing unprecedented amounts of literary shade at each other ...is: ‘sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast,’ so I think that’s the quote that suits my Russian colleague best.” Pierce... by Caroline Christie
At Large The existential paranoia fueling Elon Musk’s fear of AI ...decisions, but human input biased COMPAS from the outset. Compton went on to describe how her “colleagues of the Elon Musk personality type” argued that... by Katherine Cross
Above the Fold How Grindr and Facebook are networking shame ...wider attention; that the app was offering any qualifying HIV testing sites free advertising to its 3.6 million US users to encourage regularly STI test.... by Caroline Christie
At Large Aggregators of anxiety In glistening, antidepressant blue, a geist-like figure rises from the collapsed body of what appears to be a crash test dummy. Skeletal coils drift... by Barrett White
At Large Amen Dunes makes peace with freedom ...songs on Freedom are roving and unsatisfied. Its hungry rhythms in pursuit of his possessed voice. The contemporary aspect of McMahon’s take on rock and... by Nathan Taylor Pemberton
Above the Fold The Oxford English Dictionary essentially created a new word for gender nonconformity ...of new entries. And yesterday, marked a first, when the dictionary announced that the word “trans*” was to be included in their latest quarterly update.... by Caroline Christie
Conversations Composers Steve Reich and Nico Muhly on the music’s ecstatic expressions ...study African drumming, and composed, continuously, radically inventive minimal pieces, including “Drumming” (1971) and “Music for 18 Musicians” (1974—1976). Equally notable are Reich’s sociopolitical sensitivities:... by Ashley Simpson
Above the Fold The delirious diary: Art Basel in Hong Kong ...in hopes of promoting their label. To partiers, it’s a week full of the most decadent, alcohol-fueled nights. To Hong Kong, Art Basel is the... by Ann Binlot
Above the Fold Joel Sternfeld on his photo ‘After A Flash Flood, Rancho Mirage’ ...they asked if I had seen the Trans Am. I hadn’t seen it because so many streets were closed. They took me out at night... by Vetle Egeland
At Large The end of fur as we know it? ...Calvin Klein pioneered the initiative, having had a house ban since 1994. Stella McCartney founded her eponymous label in 2001 as a “100 percent animal-cruelty-free... by Divya Bala
Above the Fold Voyaging into Lucy Dodd’s magical family space ...out floral bouquets and croissants from Balthazar. The sense of occasion that comes from “coming back for an afternoon, like we’re here for a matinee,”... by Joshua Seidner
Documented Rineke Dijkstra and capturing the awkward blooms of youth The commodification of youth is one of photography’s more tired acts. Often a vain effort to simply capture that unrecoverable essence, or a mad scramble... by Phil Backes
Above the Fold North Korea is waging a war against its most precious pastime: karaoke ...with foreign businessmen said to be the top frequenters. Still, as Radio Free Asia notes, the drinking establishments are closing at a constant rate, with... by Caroline Christie
Conversations Curator Alissa Bennett details the dark side to Lena Dunham ...choices made by Satanists. One day we were asked to come into class wearing an outfit that truly expressed us. We all picked our favorite... by Lena Dunham
At Large Saskia de Brauw says the #MeToo moment has made her rethink ‘normal’ ...corner. Much of de Brauw’s creative explorations, such as her latest film and book project, Ghosts Don’t Walk In Straight Lines, inquires after the physical... by Divya Bala
Above the Fold Land degradation is the panic-button environmental issue that will affect millions across the globe ...plants are destroying the earth’s surface according to new research by the intergovernmental body that assesses the state of biodiversity, the IPBES. According to the... by Caroline Christie
Conversations Designer Kris Van Assche and musician Yoann Lemoine reflect on the last decade in fashion and look to the future ...score and follows rules. Inside this, I try to just bring a couple of little bombs, either beats that come from hip hop or codes... by Divya Bala
Above the Fold The Uber fatality highlights the plight of the American pedestrian ...road with her bike. The incident has left many people asking the same two questions: Why did the car’s software fail to see Elaine, and... by Caroline Christie