Eduard Sánchez Ribot makes magic of the mundane
...saturated images for clients such as Loewe, Atmos, and Margiela. On a recent two-week trip to South Korea—his first time in the country—Ribot found comfort...
Olympia Le-Tan takes high fashion to the ring with Sukeban
...asked her if she’d come out of retirement for [Sukeban], and she was like, “I want to come to New York. I’m obsessed with Home...
Erica Deeman’s required reading for environmental hope
The artist shares a list of books, compiled during her fellowship at Headlands Center for the Arts, that helped inspire her latest exhibition, ‘Climate Futurism,’...
Robert Storr’s ‘Retinal Hysteria’ renders calamity artistic
...Crumb, Jim Nutt, Peter Saul, and H.C. Westermann. The only common thread between the works, according to a catalog description, is that they “are not...
The people’s history of the internet, according to Taylor Lorenz
...niche communities; promote new forms of gender expression; educate the public about issues facing marginalized communities, and provide them with a platform to tell their...
Balenciaga’s L.A., confidential
...decadent Hollywood, often drowned out by the athleisure industrial complex. Demna insists the show isn’t ironic, and instead comes from a sincere love for the...
Solange continues to examine intimacy in transition through portraiture series
...communication in image making. Making iconography in images and creating new visual languages was once one of the most important things to me. It feels...
Sowing the seeds of the underground with Katie Rex and Fecal Matter
...idea of a more general freedom that comes along with subculture? Hannah: Yeah, 100 percent. As Fecal Matter, we started in the clubs in New...
With its new ‘Athletics’ line, Fear of God curates its own mystique
...part of the long-awaited release of Athletics, an Adidas-engineered collaboration and final branch of Fear of God’s ‘Three Pillars.’ I met Lorenzo at what can...
Samuel de Saboia navigates chaos on canvas
When Samuel de Saboia’s paintings were first shown in New York as part of a group show for up-and-coming artists, that classification was apt: He...
A guide to the discomfiting films of Todd Haynes
...the front page of newspapers. His latest film May-December innovates on this throughline in a dress shop fitting room mirror: Disgraced matriarch Gracie Atherton-Yoo (Julianne...
The Shoptimist: A deliberation on object permanence in the Desert Hills Premium Outlets
...the free market is an inescapable, manipulative force in the Western world, and that buying stuff can be a lot of fun. As he shops...
Bookmarked: Everything the Document editors watched, read, ate, bought, and listened to in November
...under the table, just may be one of the greatest simple pleasures one can experience. —Phil Backes, Director of Partnerships & Social Media Tore at...
‘Lavender Deal’ summons love in the time of COVID
...questions of online relationships—the reality and unreality of them—as he and Carlo eventually fizzle, Hallikainen the one to break it off in anticipation of his...
Molly Crabapple’s world of art and action
...lockpick—and it allowed me to enter a whole new world.” Crabapple’s latest exhibition, The Chair Series, is on view at New York’s Postmasters Gallery. There...
Resisting simulations of the self
...give a stroke of the bow: the symphony begins to stir in the depths or comes bursting onto the stage.” Poetry, for Rimbaud, didn’t come...
B-girls shoulder the history of breaking
...and sneakers by Nike. Bottom: T-shirt, jacket, trousers, socks, and sneakers by Nike. Sunny Choi, 34, New York, New York Ann: You discovered breaking at...
Raul Lopez and Kelsey Lu mine material from personal histories
...descriptor for young creative circles that read more like feuding cafeteria cliques than bazaars of artistic collaboration. Ironically, New York’s newer scenes are laden with...
Something Special Studios’s cool, cool summer
...institutions—Summer of Something Special curates a roster of global photographers, uniting their work in a yearbook-style visual diary of the hottest season. This latest volume...
Between mountains and sea, Brioni safeguards traditions of tailoring
...there for fittings, give new ideas for the new season, and try to find new techniques and ideas to talk through as to how we...
Rainy Miller and Space Afrika chase silver linings
A Grisaille Wedding isn’t just a record. It’s a fragment of a still-evolving world. It’s a tangible piece of a community, the roots of which...
In the New Hampshire wild, DJs Octo Octa and Eris Drew forage for the sound of home
There are moments when dancing to house music gives you an overwhelming sense of collective joy. It’s a hot day at the end of Pride...
Photographer Paul Phung and stylist Florie Vitse suit up the modern man
This fashion portfolio leans on Givenchy’s latest menswear collection, presenting a neo-noir take on classic tailoring...
Antwerp’s emerging designers capture the city’s casual magic
...personal search for a creative field that could combine a little bit of every other design path to produce a harmonious product. Document: Any rituals...
Talia Goddess’s collection of tracks that transcend language
...generally the new sound of hip-hop emerging in the UK. It’s fun, it’s nuanced, with Afro-diasporic rhythms and lingo. It really encapsulates new first- and...
Constance Debré on dirty freedoms
...guys bend completely under authority. They comply. We all do, don’t we? We’re not brave enough not to, probably, and what for? “Freedom consists of...
Miss Velvet rides the wave, rejuvenating classic rock
...something to others who may stumble across it.” Written alongside producer Esjay Jones, her latest album Traveler diaries an era of change: a move to...
‘Making Their Mark’ crafts its own canon
...J. Scott—a handmade wall-hanging composed entirely of glass beads—presides over the topmost room, a testament to themes of community, tying back to traditionally feminine handiwork....
Ishmael Reed and Boots Riley on the art of cultural agitation
...His literary star rose alongside New York greats like Amiri Baraka in the late-’60s when he released his first novel, The Free-Lance Pallbearers. Shortly after,...
Sam Youkilis’s ‘Somewhere’ charts the strangeness of the everyday
...largely (but not wholly) defined by the denseness of his output. His photobook Somewhere is a meticulous but extremely edited-down picture of his practice, comprising...
Designing the traveling art show
...any comments on the hot-button issue of AI. I know it’s a messy topic. Magda: It is a messy topic. I don’t know where the...
Moments of Respite: A portrait of North Africa’s migrant and queer communities
...might be perceived as a more “liberal” community compared to the rest of Tunisia, prevailing attitudes toward the LGBTQIA+ community starkly contrast those in Northern...
Tracey Emin’s ‘Lovers Grave’ serializes the supine and the sentimental
On view at White Cube, the artist’s latest exhibition grapples with mortality and marks her return to New York...
Natasha Stagg’s ‘Artless’ is the fringes of fandom
...spaces that most can only dream of. Artless—her latest book from independent publisher Semiotext(e)—chronicles her time spent traversing New York’s media landscape. In the collection,...
Down the rabbit hole at the McKittrick Hotel
...line and go straight into the belly of the beast. Compared to the bustle of West 27th Street, the new ambience was disorienting. Entering the...
Sumayya Vally and Alvaro Barrington work between the folds of familiar and imaginative belonging
...from Farnana’s research—it’s an homage to him, but also, metaphorically, it’s about pollinating these previously industrial zones with species that come from his research. [I...
The pen, the sword, and liberation
...than the sword.” (Ibrahim Tuqan directly references it in his poem “My Homeland”: “The sword and the pen are our symbols.”) Even our greatest Palestinian...
Stephanie Dinkins finds the edges of identity and AI
...a new way of thinking about AI, pushing back against the fear surrounding its development by positing a future where we may work together. Jayne...
In ‘Fingernails,’ uncertainty is painful
...Search of Lost Time, only to find that the results offered did not actually come from Proust. Instead, the passages were AI-generated attempts to answer...
It’s Emma Rogue’s world
...new addition to the company’s AI offerings, enabling POV livestreams—could have come in handy as she produced ASMR Reels, packing early Rogue orders. Today, she...
Paul Sepuya holds a mirror up to the medium, in conversation with Ryan McNamara
...It was an unapologetically messy piece—the art was quite literally in the making—and, like much of McNamara’s later work, posed complex questions about what we...
‘For the Love of Winter’ renders dressing for cold weather a creative act
Shot by New York creative duo Gus&Lo, Moncler’s holiday campaign merges comfort and style with high-tech design...
Barry Keoghan makes his own luck
...new ground for Keoghan. A lead role, finally, and also one that stretches him in all directions. His physicality is tested and so is his...
Berlin Under A’s category-resistant Halloween extravaganza
...basement of the East Village’s Berlin Under A—a New York mainstay for underground indie bands—the twangy console becomes an omen for the impending show. Mere...
Bookmarked: Everything the Document editors watched, read, ate, bought, and listened to in October
...new book, The Devil’s Treasure, as an excavation of her previous novels—and for an hour and a half, she took us down those cultural chasms:...
‘The Future Future’ is obsessed with words and their failures
...an author’s op-ed or promotional book talk. In Adarm Thirlwell’s latest novel, published earlier this month by FSG, the consequences of language—and the anxieties they...
For Joan Jonas, everything is ongoing
...not a completely new experience. But [over] all these years, I’ve shown much more in Europe than in America. I’m so thrilled to be showing...
Down the splinter of human injury with Sandra Hüller and Joachim Trier
...life have [not] come from bad will. They’ve come from the tragedy of everyone doing their best. Finding meaning is hard. Finding love is hard....
‘Two Refusals (Would We Recognize Ourselves Unbroken?)’ excavates cultural memory
...former Portuguese colony—to compare diasporic experiences. The centerpiece of the exhibit is a new film, Two Refusals (Would We Recognize Ourselves Unbroken?). As in his...
