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
Above the Fold ‘Three Women’ is a gonzo odyssey into the underbelly of desire The rapid-fire stimuli of the digital age often prevent us from lingering with complex stories long enough to empathize. In her first book, Three Women,... by Genevieve Shuster Above the Fold Nike’s legendary 1972 ‘Moon Shoes’ just sold for $437,500 The secondary sneaker market just reached its peak. In a world where StockX, the ecommerce company that also provides sneakerheads with market data, values the... by Ann Binlot Above the Fold Inside Albright Fashion Library with its notorious gatekeeper, Patricia Black Document takes you behind the scenes of Albright Fashion Library for the debut film in our new series ‘Story of an Archive.’ Although founded by... by Shawn Lakin Above the Fold A Repeat Performance, the East Village antiques store that collected 38 years of New Yorkers’ stories ...the grand, dramatic stuff of New York life. It’s actually more subtle than that. It’s the little interactions between New Yorkers,” Smith said. “It’s not... by Sarah Daoui Above the Fold Will Smith brings Big Genie Energy to his first-ever fashion campaign ...of truly inventive minds, celebrating unbridled virtuosity.” Shot by Tim Walker, Smith’s inaugural fashion campaign shows him in a bright red parka and silver pants,... by Amelia Reardon Above the Fold 5 fantastical texts (and a Finnish cartoon) for escaping the heat Document’s contributors are compiling summer reading lists with a twist. We’re asking writers, authors, artists, scholars for their old favorites and anticipated releases. This week,... by Vasilis Loizides Above the Fold Yeule’s summer playlist is a holographic hot cheeto ...not to mention geographically abstract—bouncing between heady club underworlds, orchestral kawaii dreamlands, and science-fantasy dystopias. (The name yeule was inspired by Final Fantasy XIII-2.) yeule’s... by Hannah Ongley Above the Fold Pierre Cardin’s intergalactic designs for worlds undiscovered ...inspiration. “He was looking for new inspiration,” said Yokobosky. “He was looking at science, and he was looking at the space race. He was very... by Ann Binlot Fashion Portfolio Alex Black and Herin Choi “I’ve never been interested in using photography for documenting our reality,” photographer and director Alex Black says. “For me, it’s another way to explore new... by Document Journal Above the Fold Soviet-era sci-fi gave Stanley Kubrick a run for his money ...of Rick and Morty), Tayna tretyey planety sees Professor Seleznyov and his daughter Alice set off on a search on a search for extraterrestrial additions... by Clara Malley Above the Fold What is biocouture? Meet the Japanese designer rendering the needle and thread obsolete ...spokesperson Tomokazu Nagai how it’s made. “Brewed is, you know—like beer,” he explained. “You can associate with beer, right? So after designing our amino sequence... by Ann Binlot Above the Fold Arthur C. Clarke’s 1986 ‘Playboy’ interview is a sci-fi prophecy for the counterculture ...Generation. From ’56 through ’68, Clarke worked on the screenplay for 2001 out of New York’s iconic Chelsea Hotel, which was then an ad hoc... by Hannah Ongley Above the Fold Grimes’s wellness regime proves we’re all still paranoid about androids ...of any lifestyle fad, they’ve put the popularity of CBD products and blood facials into overdrive, and are now testing the waters of transhumanism. On... by Caroline Christie Above the Fold ‘Storytellers of the black narrative’: Revisiting Gordon Parks’s ‘A Great Day in Hip Hop’ 20 years later ...Great Day in Harlem,” with hip-hop artists—the new generation of storytellers of the black narrative. Michael A. Gonzales, a music writer, knew just the right... by Ann Binlot Above the Fold 2019 in photojournalism: encapsulating the stories we can’t afford to forget Free press and the informed public it empowers form an essential tenet of our democracy. But rapid news cycles chock-full of crises and breakthroughs can... by Genevieve Shuster Above the Fold Road-tripping with model and photographer Julia Campbell-Gillies ...a South African-born British model whom I’ve long adored, was doing a brief stint in NYC, I knew I had to seize the opportunity to... by Emily Lipson Above the Fold Great, now global warming is causing woolly mammoth poaching ...whether this new practice can be classified as poaching. Yes, the woolly mammoth has been extinct for 10,000 years, but it’s fueling the same industry.... by Caroline Christie Above the Fold Meet 5 emerging photographers confronting race, gender, and identity ...observations before injecting her own fictional narrative into her images. For Labs New Artists III, Olenic submitted a broad selection of her work, abstract and... by Ann Binlot Above the Fold Accompany Solange on her spiritual expedition home .../Boston 1 August from 6-10pm EST, PAMM Free Community Night, Miami 2- 8 August, The Broad Theater, New Orleans 3 August 2pm CST, MCA Chicago... by Clara Malley Above the Fold Kiyan Williams and Amaryllis DeJesus Moleski on the audacity of art-making at the margins ...community and you both are people of color, do you believe there is a responsibility to make art, or do you think it should come... by Sophia Rose Segarra Above the Fold Are China’s contemporary artists the saviors of its cultural heritage? ...dark reality: Beijing’s sprint to modernity has come at the expense of cultural spaces including historical sites, galleries, and art studios. Last year, Ai Weiwei... by Caroline Christie Above the Fold Exorcising the social media ghosts of relationships past ...currently working on their forthcoming graphic novel, 7 Dreams About You. The second chapter is excerpted here with commentary from Elisha below. I’ve been blessed... by Genevieve Shuster Above the Fold ‘The Year of Return’: 5 Ghanaian artists sound off on Pan-African solidarity ...celebrities. Ghana’s latest and most ambitious push for Pan-Africanism is 2019’s “The Year of Return”, an initiative that was introduced last year by President Nana... by Amira Rasool Above the Fold Pussy Riot’s face down with the Alabama abortion ban ...criticism and protests. Now that they’re coming from a group infamous for holding some of the world’s most illiberal governments to account, Alabama’s new legislation... by Caroline Christie Above the Fold Sarai Mari owns her existential crisis Sarai Mari’s newest photography book is launching this Thursday, July 11th at OnCanal with a celebration and gallery exhibition. Delusion grapples with the photojournalist turned... by Shawn Lakin Above the Fold A Superstar is Born: Adidas, basketball, and the 1986 rap show that started it all ...signaled diehard dedication to a blossoming new lifestyle and the sense of community that accompanied it. It’s a rare pleasure to witness a specific moment... by David Aaron Brake Above the Fold Jess Cole’s 7 short books for each day of the week Document’s contributors are compiling summer reading lists with a twist. We’re asking writers, authors, artists, scholars for their old favorites and anticipated releases. Writer and... by Jess Cole Above the Fold When Louis Vuitton met Grandmaster Flash: the eccentric ’90s campaign that shook high fashion ...one anyway.’ We shot it how we wanted it too look and then we shot it how we thought they would let us get away... by Miss Rosen Above the Fold Chopova Lowena riot grrrls take over the East Village ...always really inspired by traditional dress. That is a common theme but in our new upcoming season, that we’re working on now, we’re slightly going... by Shawn Lakin Above the Fold 5 young photographers pushing the bounds of ‘feminine beauty’ ...towards new and unseen points of view—Dior Makeup’s Photography Award for Young Talent. Dior’s committee—this year made up of photographers Dominique Issermann and Sonia Sieff;... by Ashley Simpson Above the Fold VHS tapes, vegetables, and sustainable glitter: Central Saint Martins’ green wave ...and not making this just because I think it’s beautiful.” Benjamin Benmoyal. But we don’t just need to create new things to engineer our way... by Caroline Christie Above the Fold Daichiro Shinjo, a calligraphy artist seeking Zen amidst our existing chaos ...created new works with layers of text on what I wrote in the past, but I feel that writing the same text again and again... by Hiroshi Hashiguchi Above the Fold Documenting the rites and rituals of India’s sacred water source ...dangerously polluted—but the people in Marc Hibbert’s photographs didn’t come here just to do laundry. As Hibbert explains, the connection between India’s population and its... by Hannah Ongley Above the Fold Cheng Ran, the video artist melding underground stories with experimental DJ scores ...he completed a three-month residency at the New Museum in New York that resulted in his trilogy, Diary of a Madman. This June, the artist... by Ann Binlot Above the Fold Valentino x Birkenstock: the fascinating origin story of summer’s best collaboration It’s not easy to travel to the Birkenstock factories in Görlitz and Bernstadt. After a flight from New York to Berlin, a two-and-a-half hour train... by Ann Binlot Above the Fold Christian Louboutin travels to the Himalayas on the LouBhoutan Express ...with his assistant’s bottle of nail polish—a pop makeover with Warhol-like flowers decorating the ankle. New colorways of his Elisa crossbody bag, named after his... by Ann Binlot Above the Fold Spectacles of society: exploring 600 years of British eyewear ...NHS gave out free eyewear to people who needed their vision corrected– regardless of their income. Affectionately known as “milk-bottles,” they featured glass as thick... by Caroline Christie Above the Fold One night at ChokeHole, where drag performance meets pro wrestling ...New York for one night, taking over the Super Chief gallery in Ridgewood, Queens. Storylines were familiar to New Yorkers and New Orleanians alike: gentrification,... by Rhodes Murphy Above the Fold Diedrick Brackens weaves visual anthems for the yee-haw agenda Textile art is experiencing a new kind of popularity right now. There are queer knitting circles, sexually graphic embrodiery, and retrospectives on home fabric designers... by André Naquian Wheeler Above the Fold Dior blends functionality, fire, and feminism with the help of Penny Slinger and Agnès Varda ...of ephemeral architecture, designed to highlight proportions of the female body,” Dior once said. In her latest collection, Chiuri sought out to do just that,... by Ann Binlot Above the Fold Ira Silverberg’s guide to poets as prose-writers, from Sylvia Plath to Ocean Vuong ...by Little Dog, a young, gay, first-generation Vietnamese-American to his illiterate refugee Mother. Vuong’s book is the perfect twenty first-century novel in form and content... by Ira Silverberg Above the Fold Watch Miu Miu Croisière 2020 live from Paris Tune into the livestream Saturday, June 29 at 7:30 PM Paris / 1:30 PM New York.... by Document Journal Above the Fold Artists Alex Israel and Tschabalala Self reimagine Louis Vuitton’s Capucines handbag ...by Louis Vuitton X’s matching color scheme, selected as if to complement this very sunset. The colors, a more beautiful version of Instagram’s logo palette,... by Joey Dalla Betta Above the Fold Arlene Gottfried photographed the magic and madness of Old New York ...New York with a camera in hand, ever ready to capture a fleeting glimpse of the beautiful souls who crossed her path. A new exhibition,... by Miss Rosen Above the Fold Robert Giard photographed over 600 LGBTQ writers—5 of them share their stories ...activists—casting literary icons (Allen Ginsberg, Adrienne Rich) in an intimate new light and elevating a new generation of rising talents on the brink of success.... by Hannah Ongley Above the Fold Botter, the Paris men’s label taking on dictatorships one fruit sticker at a time ...[Our brand] is a playground.” It’s true that the two take a coltish approach to their pieces, beginning with combined research, sketching, 3D collage and... by Divya Bala Above the Fold Capturing the new faces of Jil Sander men’s ...we feel fit the identity and voice of the brand—the discussions about who best represents the aesthetics constantly developing, finding faces to aid in the... by Clara Malley Above the Fold DeSe Escobar defines the future of going-out glam ...eccentric than New York. Those are sort of my three favorite cities for being openly trans and comfortable. I have a residency in Berlin coming... by Paige Silveria Above the Fold Bali is designing a sustainable future and we should take notes ...unassuming product for environmental commentary that’s repeated through the exhibition, including by Lamb, is tableware. The company SerVies (Annemarie Piscaer and Iris de Kievith) harvest... by Harriet Ongley Above the Fold John Edmonds’ 5 books for the serious daydreamer ...his films, defining a voice in Black comedy that would be the blueprint for comedians of all backgrounds, for years and years to come. The... by John Edmonds
Above the Fold ‘Three Women’ is a gonzo odyssey into the underbelly of desire The rapid-fire stimuli of the digital age often prevent us from lingering with complex stories long enough to empathize. In her first book, Three Women,... by Genevieve Shuster
Above the Fold Nike’s legendary 1972 ‘Moon Shoes’ just sold for $437,500 The secondary sneaker market just reached its peak. In a world where StockX, the ecommerce company that also provides sneakerheads with market data, values the... by Ann Binlot
Above the Fold Inside Albright Fashion Library with its notorious gatekeeper, Patricia Black Document takes you behind the scenes of Albright Fashion Library for the debut film in our new series ‘Story of an Archive.’ Although founded by... by Shawn Lakin
Above the Fold A Repeat Performance, the East Village antiques store that collected 38 years of New Yorkers’ stories ...the grand, dramatic stuff of New York life. It’s actually more subtle than that. It’s the little interactions between New Yorkers,” Smith said. “It’s not... by Sarah Daoui
Above the Fold Will Smith brings Big Genie Energy to his first-ever fashion campaign ...of truly inventive minds, celebrating unbridled virtuosity.” Shot by Tim Walker, Smith’s inaugural fashion campaign shows him in a bright red parka and silver pants,... by Amelia Reardon
Above the Fold 5 fantastical texts (and a Finnish cartoon) for escaping the heat Document’s contributors are compiling summer reading lists with a twist. We’re asking writers, authors, artists, scholars for their old favorites and anticipated releases. This week,... by Vasilis Loizides
Above the Fold Yeule’s summer playlist is a holographic hot cheeto ...not to mention geographically abstract—bouncing between heady club underworlds, orchestral kawaii dreamlands, and science-fantasy dystopias. (The name yeule was inspired by Final Fantasy XIII-2.) yeule’s... by Hannah Ongley
Above the Fold Pierre Cardin’s intergalactic designs for worlds undiscovered ...inspiration. “He was looking for new inspiration,” said Yokobosky. “He was looking at science, and he was looking at the space race. He was very... by Ann Binlot
Fashion Portfolio Alex Black and Herin Choi “I’ve never been interested in using photography for documenting our reality,” photographer and director Alex Black says. “For me, it’s another way to explore new... by Document Journal
Above the Fold Soviet-era sci-fi gave Stanley Kubrick a run for his money ...of Rick and Morty), Tayna tretyey planety sees Professor Seleznyov and his daughter Alice set off on a search on a search for extraterrestrial additions... by Clara Malley
Above the Fold What is biocouture? Meet the Japanese designer rendering the needle and thread obsolete ...spokesperson Tomokazu Nagai how it’s made. “Brewed is, you know—like beer,” he explained. “You can associate with beer, right? So after designing our amino sequence... by Ann Binlot
Above the Fold Arthur C. Clarke’s 1986 ‘Playboy’ interview is a sci-fi prophecy for the counterculture ...Generation. From ’56 through ’68, Clarke worked on the screenplay for 2001 out of New York’s iconic Chelsea Hotel, which was then an ad hoc... by Hannah Ongley
Above the Fold Grimes’s wellness regime proves we’re all still paranoid about androids ...of any lifestyle fad, they’ve put the popularity of CBD products and blood facials into overdrive, and are now testing the waters of transhumanism. On... by Caroline Christie
Above the Fold ‘Storytellers of the black narrative’: Revisiting Gordon Parks’s ‘A Great Day in Hip Hop’ 20 years later ...Great Day in Harlem,” with hip-hop artists—the new generation of storytellers of the black narrative. Michael A. Gonzales, a music writer, knew just the right... by Ann Binlot
Above the Fold 2019 in photojournalism: encapsulating the stories we can’t afford to forget Free press and the informed public it empowers form an essential tenet of our democracy. But rapid news cycles chock-full of crises and breakthroughs can... by Genevieve Shuster
Above the Fold Road-tripping with model and photographer Julia Campbell-Gillies ...a South African-born British model whom I’ve long adored, was doing a brief stint in NYC, I knew I had to seize the opportunity to... by Emily Lipson
Above the Fold Great, now global warming is causing woolly mammoth poaching ...whether this new practice can be classified as poaching. Yes, the woolly mammoth has been extinct for 10,000 years, but it’s fueling the same industry.... by Caroline Christie
Above the Fold Meet 5 emerging photographers confronting race, gender, and identity ...observations before injecting her own fictional narrative into her images. For Labs New Artists III, Olenic submitted a broad selection of her work, abstract and... by Ann Binlot
Above the Fold Accompany Solange on her spiritual expedition home .../Boston 1 August from 6-10pm EST, PAMM Free Community Night, Miami 2- 8 August, The Broad Theater, New Orleans 3 August 2pm CST, MCA Chicago... by Clara Malley
Above the Fold Kiyan Williams and Amaryllis DeJesus Moleski on the audacity of art-making at the margins ...community and you both are people of color, do you believe there is a responsibility to make art, or do you think it should come... by Sophia Rose Segarra
Above the Fold Are China’s contemporary artists the saviors of its cultural heritage? ...dark reality: Beijing’s sprint to modernity has come at the expense of cultural spaces including historical sites, galleries, and art studios. Last year, Ai Weiwei... by Caroline Christie
Above the Fold Exorcising the social media ghosts of relationships past ...currently working on their forthcoming graphic novel, 7 Dreams About You. The second chapter is excerpted here with commentary from Elisha below. I’ve been blessed... by Genevieve Shuster
Above the Fold ‘The Year of Return’: 5 Ghanaian artists sound off on Pan-African solidarity ...celebrities. Ghana’s latest and most ambitious push for Pan-Africanism is 2019’s “The Year of Return”, an initiative that was introduced last year by President Nana... by Amira Rasool
Above the Fold Pussy Riot’s face down with the Alabama abortion ban ...criticism and protests. Now that they’re coming from a group infamous for holding some of the world’s most illiberal governments to account, Alabama’s new legislation... by Caroline Christie
Above the Fold Sarai Mari owns her existential crisis Sarai Mari’s newest photography book is launching this Thursday, July 11th at OnCanal with a celebration and gallery exhibition. Delusion grapples with the photojournalist turned... by Shawn Lakin
Above the Fold A Superstar is Born: Adidas, basketball, and the 1986 rap show that started it all ...signaled diehard dedication to a blossoming new lifestyle and the sense of community that accompanied it. It’s a rare pleasure to witness a specific moment... by David Aaron Brake
Above the Fold Jess Cole’s 7 short books for each day of the week Document’s contributors are compiling summer reading lists with a twist. We’re asking writers, authors, artists, scholars for their old favorites and anticipated releases. Writer and... by Jess Cole
Above the Fold When Louis Vuitton met Grandmaster Flash: the eccentric ’90s campaign that shook high fashion ...one anyway.’ We shot it how we wanted it too look and then we shot it how we thought they would let us get away... by Miss Rosen
Above the Fold Chopova Lowena riot grrrls take over the East Village ...always really inspired by traditional dress. That is a common theme but in our new upcoming season, that we’re working on now, we’re slightly going... by Shawn Lakin
Above the Fold 5 young photographers pushing the bounds of ‘feminine beauty’ ...towards new and unseen points of view—Dior Makeup’s Photography Award for Young Talent. Dior’s committee—this year made up of photographers Dominique Issermann and Sonia Sieff;... by Ashley Simpson
Above the Fold VHS tapes, vegetables, and sustainable glitter: Central Saint Martins’ green wave ...and not making this just because I think it’s beautiful.” Benjamin Benmoyal. But we don’t just need to create new things to engineer our way... by Caroline Christie
Above the Fold Daichiro Shinjo, a calligraphy artist seeking Zen amidst our existing chaos ...created new works with layers of text on what I wrote in the past, but I feel that writing the same text again and again... by Hiroshi Hashiguchi
Above the Fold Documenting the rites and rituals of India’s sacred water source ...dangerously polluted—but the people in Marc Hibbert’s photographs didn’t come here just to do laundry. As Hibbert explains, the connection between India’s population and its... by Hannah Ongley
Above the Fold Cheng Ran, the video artist melding underground stories with experimental DJ scores ...he completed a three-month residency at the New Museum in New York that resulted in his trilogy, Diary of a Madman. This June, the artist... by Ann Binlot
Above the Fold Valentino x Birkenstock: the fascinating origin story of summer’s best collaboration It’s not easy to travel to the Birkenstock factories in Görlitz and Bernstadt. After a flight from New York to Berlin, a two-and-a-half hour train... by Ann Binlot
Above the Fold Christian Louboutin travels to the Himalayas on the LouBhoutan Express ...with his assistant’s bottle of nail polish—a pop makeover with Warhol-like flowers decorating the ankle. New colorways of his Elisa crossbody bag, named after his... by Ann Binlot
Above the Fold Spectacles of society: exploring 600 years of British eyewear ...NHS gave out free eyewear to people who needed their vision corrected– regardless of their income. Affectionately known as “milk-bottles,” they featured glass as thick... by Caroline Christie
Above the Fold One night at ChokeHole, where drag performance meets pro wrestling ...New York for one night, taking over the Super Chief gallery in Ridgewood, Queens. Storylines were familiar to New Yorkers and New Orleanians alike: gentrification,... by Rhodes Murphy
Above the Fold Diedrick Brackens weaves visual anthems for the yee-haw agenda Textile art is experiencing a new kind of popularity right now. There are queer knitting circles, sexually graphic embrodiery, and retrospectives on home fabric designers... by André Naquian Wheeler
Above the Fold Dior blends functionality, fire, and feminism with the help of Penny Slinger and Agnès Varda ...of ephemeral architecture, designed to highlight proportions of the female body,” Dior once said. In her latest collection, Chiuri sought out to do just that,... by Ann Binlot
Above the Fold Ira Silverberg’s guide to poets as prose-writers, from Sylvia Plath to Ocean Vuong ...by Little Dog, a young, gay, first-generation Vietnamese-American to his illiterate refugee Mother. Vuong’s book is the perfect twenty first-century novel in form and content... by Ira Silverberg
Above the Fold Watch Miu Miu Croisière 2020 live from Paris Tune into the livestream Saturday, June 29 at 7:30 PM Paris / 1:30 PM New York.... by Document Journal
Above the Fold Artists Alex Israel and Tschabalala Self reimagine Louis Vuitton’s Capucines handbag ...by Louis Vuitton X’s matching color scheme, selected as if to complement this very sunset. The colors, a more beautiful version of Instagram’s logo palette,... by Joey Dalla Betta
Above the Fold Arlene Gottfried photographed the magic and madness of Old New York ...New York with a camera in hand, ever ready to capture a fleeting glimpse of the beautiful souls who crossed her path. A new exhibition,... by Miss Rosen
Above the Fold Robert Giard photographed over 600 LGBTQ writers—5 of them share their stories ...activists—casting literary icons (Allen Ginsberg, Adrienne Rich) in an intimate new light and elevating a new generation of rising talents on the brink of success.... by Hannah Ongley
Above the Fold Botter, the Paris men’s label taking on dictatorships one fruit sticker at a time ...[Our brand] is a playground.” It’s true that the two take a coltish approach to their pieces, beginning with combined research, sketching, 3D collage and... by Divya Bala
Above the Fold Capturing the new faces of Jil Sander men’s ...we feel fit the identity and voice of the brand—the discussions about who best represents the aesthetics constantly developing, finding faces to aid in the... by Clara Malley
Above the Fold DeSe Escobar defines the future of going-out glam ...eccentric than New York. Those are sort of my three favorite cities for being openly trans and comfortable. I have a residency in Berlin coming... by Paige Silveria
Above the Fold Bali is designing a sustainable future and we should take notes ...unassuming product for environmental commentary that’s repeated through the exhibition, including by Lamb, is tableware. The company SerVies (Annemarie Piscaer and Iris de Kievith) harvest... by Harriet Ongley
Above the Fold John Edmonds’ 5 books for the serious daydreamer ...his films, defining a voice in Black comedy that would be the blueprint for comedians of all backgrounds, for years and years to come. The... by John Edmonds