Imagining the end of Facebook, for the first time
...hand over evidence pertaining to the Cambridge Analytica revelations. The company isn’t even sure who will brief the House Judiciary Committee staff this week about...
Amongst the artworks counted as the newest detainees of the war on terror
...onto the bay. Shortly thereafter, it began to feature heavily in their art and poems. “The sea means freedom no one can control or own,...
Why does Facebook keep trying to censor artwork with nudity in France of all places?
...we have lots of nude art,” said the user after their legal victory. Of course, Facebook is staring at even bigger disruptions coming their way....
The Document Agenda: “The inner architectural voice of the city”
...the role of pubic spaces and politics and feels that the move is a natural progression. He told the website CityLab, that he wants to...
The tales of Duncan Hannah’s weird and raw New York City
Sitting in the comfortable airiness of Duncan Hannah’s light-filled Brooklyn studio, the charming painter appears an unlikely anthropologist of the gritty New York City underbelly...
Eugene Souleiman is the visionary behind the ethereal hair in Jil Sander’s latest collection
...where there is that real connection, where I totally understand where they are coming from, and I understand what they are going for. It’s a...
The Document Agenda: “An enchanted world now exists alongside the disenchanted one”
...one company actually making steps towards creating this real virtual world. Austin-based creative company Interactive has created Simulife, an interactive play-lab that designs multi-day adventures...
Maria Grazia Chiuri on her feminist vision for Dior
...as creative director of the house with a sprawling anniversary exhibition at Les Arts Décoratifs featuring over 300 Dior haute couture pieces designed by those...
The Document Agenda: “Learning tools for young surgeons”
...compared it to that of a pianist and a composer “All metaphors are imperfect approximations, but my favorite is that of the translator and author...
In pursuit of contemporary content at The Armory Show
...up in competition, The Armory appears to have fully embraced the market’s latest driving force: social media. Moving along the many well-lit booths, we caught...
The Document Agenda: “No deference to a good looking face”
...combat climate change and driverless cars. In broad brushstrokes, da Vinci envisioned a street-level “lower” tier for carts and horses in what we would understand...
The Document Agenda: “Living in the loudest cities”
...now be scarce, even if duplicates remain common in the same way that prints or photographs of physical artwork are common. Objects Russia now...
The Document Agenda: “To dabble in the occult of orange”
...Free Lossless Audio Codex and is a file format that’s a bit-perfect copy of CD quality but is half the size. EDM blog, magneticmag.com, have...
The Document Agenda: βA bath in radioactive waterβ
...radon, a byproduct of uranium. For years, springs have run through these mines, flowing with this water.” The Mind Neuroforensics is the latest frontier...
Danish design duo Camilla Staerk and Helena Christensen define Scandinavian style
...e-commerce platform will launch in March which will present their products and ongoing projects. The two have also created a home and a gym, spa,...
The Document Agenda: “We must also acknowledge that art is owned”
...Scotland has published a new book, Darwin’s Unfinished Symphony that examines cultural transmission among animals. The researcher recently joined The Guardian’s science podcast to discuss...
Designers are offering protection from the elements of a harsh world
...need to protect was extended by several labels by offering money to charities. Lacoste’s desire to save the environment is being animated through its latest...
Teen eco-activist Xiuhtezcatl Roske-Martinez and Rosario Dawson sound the environmental alarm
...When the source and the inspiration of fighting for change comes from protecting your community, it is so much more real. Even in the world...
The Document Agenda: “The power and importance of human touch”
...ways to communicate in the modern world and we have fewer physical interactions,” said lead author Pavel Goldstein, a postdoctoral pain researcher in the Cognitive...
The boys of Hong Kong
Photographer Alexandra Leese gives Document an exclusive look at her latest photo essay in which stereotypes of masculinity are dismantled in the city of her...
The infinite allure of Repossi
...are displaced by the aspirations of obtaining the markings of a fine art piece. The latest exemplar being the brand’s expansion of the Antifer rings...
Listening to the ‘music of the future’ in the future
...in much the same way a deodorizer neutralizes disagreeable odors.” The recordings’ efficacy was measured more in user testimony than hard research, but if testimony—or...
The Document Agenda: “Looking into a portable funhouse mirror”
...greater motivation to take action.” ©Jacopo on Flickr. Licensed under CC BY 2.0. The Future Drones are becoming the latest tool in the...
Tina Tyrell on her photo βTime Will Have Its Fancyβ
“A magazine called Bon commissioned this photograph for their poetry issue. I mentioned I was a fan of [W.H.] Auden, so they used his poem...
The Document Agenda: “A library of the 20th century”
...and promote the rights of environmental defenders to life, and to free movement, expression, and assembly. States would also be impelled to take ‘appropriate, timely...
Muse Amanda Lear defends being alone to artist Francesco Vezzoli
...a different thing. Francesco—I’m not going to compliment you, Amanda, otherwise you’ll scream, so I’m going to put this in a way that doesn’t sound...
Erika Cavallini always has a very special good luck charm on hand for her shows
...had to answer questions from my team about locations and fittings, so it was about midnight. Then I woke up at 3am. Then 5am. Document—How...
Taking back New York City’s nightlife
...to have power over the nightlife communities because those communities have drugs, noise and problems over which they want one more tool. But they shouldn’t...
The Document Agenda: “Some things have not changed”
...debate with calling the notion of sonic brain blasts conjecture at best, and, at worse, “political” science. “The US government asked doctors at the University...
Surveying a ‘reactionary moment’ with Document’s first guest curator Francesco Vezzoli
Oh, the complications of the present. These complications weigh heavy on the mind of the artist Francesco Vezzoli. So much so, that when Document asked...
Overheard at the new Barkley L. Hendricks show, Them Changes
...Or ask Kehinde Wiley, whose just-unveiled portrait of President Obama owes a large debt to the original Daddy Cool. This past week, a recently discovered...
The Document Agenda: “We thought there was one last wild species”
...understand speech,’ he said. ‘However, we have already begun searching for other ways that our brains might compute meaning, and how those computations differ from...
Silvia Venturini Fendi and Delfina Delettrez hear each other clearly across the generational gap
...don’t believe there could ever be too much freedom. Delfina—I personally believe in absolute freedom. There isn’t a more electric word than ‘freedom.’ But, of...
The Document Agenda: “Solid light works”
...mental imagery than using a native tongue.” The Future Researchers are examing the probabilities of a computer’s artistic touch. When New Jersey’s Rutgers University...
Before any Roksanda show, it’s a cup of tea
...shared with Document her pre-show rituals. Despite a sleepless night before the show, IlinΔiΔ’s latest collection was an assured assemblage of liquid satin, Hygge-ready woolens...
Destination POV
...in emails from associates, while gazing at the omnipresent explore feed of my Instagram account is that the commitment to learn and grow abroad has...
The Document Agenda: “How many times can you continue knocking on a closed door?”
...Acute Care Open, scientists compared the first twelve seasons of Greys Anatomy to the National Trauma Databank, to find out why real-life emergency care doesn’t...
The Document Agenda: “An appropriate place for a bit of end-of-the-world hedonism”
...website It’s Nice That explains Google’s most recent attempt to curb copyright infringement. “The changes come about after complaints made by Getty Images to the...
The American politics of the radical presidential portrait
Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald's portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama are the latest entries in a visual tradition defining the politics of the present....
The Antarctic’s icy spell becomes a tourism fantasy
...have long used expeditions to try and discover how humans react to its singular environmental conditions that cannot be recreated anywhere else. This week, the...
Lucid dreaming backstage with Sies Marjan
This season, Sies Marjan’s latest collection was set inside a neon-lit dreamscape, a vision of futuristic romanticism. The designer duo behind the label, Sander Lak...
The Document Agenda: “A bridge between the minuscule quantum world and our macroscopic reality”
...the most pressing question facing urban planners is the development of sustainable materials to keep pace with the building boom. Engineers from MIT and scientists...
The Document Agenda: “They could not escape time’s eraser”
...time in English. The Nokia 3210 is a hallmark of mobile communications. It was the moment that mobile technology became commonplace and a part of...
Porches make a record for and by New York City
...no matter how dark or disconsolate, a euphoria that can be understood at the lowest of volumes. Across the 14 tracks that make up The...
Andreas Laszlo Konrath on his photo “Untitled (Joe #11, Braces 1)”
...than just a photograph. I still think that image is one of the best photographs I’ve ever taken. When you’re younger, you’re a bit more...
Tempting fate backstage with Vaquera
...not at least, to get a taste of the same inspiration that energizes Vaquera. To prepare for this season, the Vaquera team traveled to Las...
Artist Robert Longo pits excess against morality with designer Rick Owens
...They are all a blur. Robert—It was a weird version of an almost schizophrenic combination of like “Triumph of the Will” and a monster truck...
The Document Agenda: “A new way to participate in the growing experience”
...Some of the sitters are delegates visiting Washington on behalf of their respective tribes, sent to testify before the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. Straight-on,...
Cooler Heads
...a repository for the best visual culture makers of this moment. Our deep appreciation for compelling style will live in Fashion Portfolios, a specially designed...
