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 Rising entrepreneurial star in China turns out to be social media catfish ...Monday, a police sting in the city of Jinan revealed that Runlong didn’t exist. The Shandong Internet Economic Research Center didn’t exist. Even his numerous... by Caroline Christie Above the Fold Raf Simons recalls Jaws and The Graduate for Calvin Klein 205W39NYC Spring/Summer 2019 ...legendary and oft quoted 1967 Mike Nichols romantic comedy The Graduate, and the iconic, fear inducing 1975 Steven Spielberg thriller Jaws. “The landscape of America—literal... by Ann Binlot Above the Fold Fashion as fantasy: Julian Louie figured out how to wear an entire collection at once ...label during New York Fashion Week. From there, Louie tried his hand an art, collaging together fragments from various runway shows, and putting them on... by Ann Binlot Documented A retrospective into Erwin Blumenfeld’s push for radical photography ...a year at Bazaar’s New York base, his decade at Vogue was remarkably productive. By 1947, the New York Times was describing Blumenfeld as one... by Vince Aletti Above the Fold Meet New Pandemics, the modeling agency that’s looking to bring queer visibility to the forefront ...of religious freedom bills and changes in the Affordable Care Act or Medicaid, which would disproportionately affect those in the community living with HIV and... by Ann Binlot Above the Fold Telfar’s ‘post-identity’ aesthetic emerges on an East River helipad ...given new life when combined with models dressed in asymmetric tank tops and hair styles that were informed by the image of the late Rick... by Shawn Lakin Above the Fold Eckhaus Latta brings its inner circle to Bushwick for Spring/Summer 2019 ...ringing on bells, shaking tambourines and pounding on mini gongs. The playful approach provided for a lighter, happier mood—and perhaps the cutest finale of New... by Shawn Lakin 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 Browns finds its kindred spirit in Fred Segal ...people all come and hang out together. And Browns functions that way in London, and anchors the creative community. They’re introducing the newest designers in... by Maxwell Williams Above the Fold Russian scientists speed up the internet ...don’t have to build or relocate powerful supercomputers when they’re testing out a new idea. They can simply jump online and work out high-precision calculations... 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 Documented This is the New York skyline circa 1980 ...it was–an unknown galaxy of magnetic beauty. “They were shot on our roof on the east side near the water tower. I had ample wardrobe... by Glenn O'Brien Above the Fold Recalling the big hair and even bigger personalities of Wigstock ...every year, Wigstock grew into the stomping ground for the greatest and most notorious drag performers in New York. But Wigstock was more than a... by Shawn Lakin At Large Empress Of carves out a kingdom ...years in New York, which she says, “was like school—a life education, trying to survive.” Rodriguez’s New York years span Obama’s second term. She was... by Fiona Duncan Conversations Pat and Anna Cleveland find the rainbows in family jewels ...Giles Spring/Summer 2015 runway show. Since then, she’s lead campaigns for Lanvin, Bottega Veneta and Moschino. Document spoke to the mother and daughter pair about... by Ann Binlot Above the Fold Global warming causes insects to eat more crops A new scientific paper has discovered that global warming is causing the metabolic rates of insects to rocket, resulting in them eating more crops. The... by Caroline Christie 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 Detroit public schools bring in bottled water to combat contamination ...than a week until the start of the new academic year, the superintendent of the Detroit Public Schools Community District, Nikolai Vitti, said they were... by Caroline Christie Above the Fold What does AI-generated art look like? ...McKinsey. While it is easy to see how AI could replace cashier positions, factory work and data entry, could it replace creativity? Gradient Descent, an... by Ann Binlot Above the Fold Shanel Campbell is on the verge ...by the likes of Solange and Issa Rae. On September 5 the New York-based designer, who is also a professor at Parsons, will independently debut... 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 How Hungary’s far-right government is curtailing culture ...“promoting communism.” The country has been stamping out anything that might be seen as pro-migration. A new tax, which was enforced last week, is imposing... by Caroline Christie 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 Not just relegated to politics, Russian bots are now undermining vaccines ...in GW’s School of Engineering and Applied Science. The news comes as cases of measles in the U.S. are on the rise, facing an uptick... by Caroline Christie Above the Fold And now, a geographic breakdown of America’s sexism Where you grow up matters—especially if you’re a woman. So if you don’t want major aspects of your life to be dictated by chauvinistic attitudes,... 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 UNC students are making history, not erasing it, after toppling Confederate monument ...intervention that led to the statue’s demise, calling it “unlawful and dangerous.” In an opinion piece for the New York Times, scholars of Civil War... by Caroline Christie Above the Fold An authentic look at people with their very own Birkenstocks ...brand itself. They come from all over the world, and represent every gender, age, class, and ethnicity. With each day that Birkenstock owners wear their... 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 Documented Christelle De Castro zooms in on downtown NYC in ‘Citizens of the Bowery’ ...stylish, affordable and tech-savvy global hotel—exhibition and documentary called Citizens of the Bowery. Before the hotel opens, it will showcase portraits of the colorful, close-knit... by Ann Binlot 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 Above the Fold Nudists flock the Palais de Tokyo ...au natural. With 2018 being one of the hottest years for many countries across the world, is this a trend that will take foot in... 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 Science attempts to explain why the rich and powerful often behave like swine ...that assertion. What the Post’s piece does is bring together new research to join the dots between power, wealth and how we treat other people:... by Caroline Christie 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? ...new stories from emerging. For example, social science research has demonstrated that congestion of the news in the wake of major events like the 9/11... by Brendan Nyhan Documented “It’s like a blood bath”: Inside the student protests rattling Bangladesh ...to lose their lives at a daily rate. As Document’s New Vanguard Special Reportage winner, she gives us her account of life inside Bangladesh’s brutal... by Caroline Christie 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 ...side, making a commentary on African-American things. With ¡Cholita! I was making a commentary on my Latin background—I’m part Mexican. Bjarne: You were pretty popular... 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 ...shot of Jung wearing a shirt comprised of floral print, whistling before Aida Blue snaps a twig in an oxblood trench and Jung kisses a... by Ann Binlot Above the Fold Watch Document dance with lifestyle label 69 through its new exhibition at MOCA Los Angeles ...MOCA Pacific Design Center, comes with the cheeky title “Déjà Vu,” speaking to the archival nature of the objects, textile sculptures and garments. MOCA deems... by Shawn Lakin 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 ...is an educator, transdisciplinary artist, and the current Ford Curatorial Fellow at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. In Paradise Travel Company, presently featured at... 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 Above the Fold Project depicting names of drowned refugees mysteriously disappears from Liverpool Biennial ...Manifesto newspaper for World Refugee Day, and has been shown internationally. The names are compiled and updated by United for Intercultural Action, the pan European... by Caroline Christie Documented In celebration of summer holidays, Document 12 contributors bring us to their favorite places ...of Zermatt and writer Emily Manning pays a visit to the oldest gay bar in New York, Julius. Discover the incredibly diverse and international realm... by Vetle Egeland
Above the Fold Rising entrepreneurial star in China turns out to be social media catfish ...Monday, a police sting in the city of Jinan revealed that Runlong didn’t exist. The Shandong Internet Economic Research Center didn’t exist. Even his numerous... by Caroline Christie
Above the Fold Raf Simons recalls Jaws and The Graduate for Calvin Klein 205W39NYC Spring/Summer 2019 ...legendary and oft quoted 1967 Mike Nichols romantic comedy The Graduate, and the iconic, fear inducing 1975 Steven Spielberg thriller Jaws. “The landscape of America—literal... by Ann Binlot
Above the Fold Fashion as fantasy: Julian Louie figured out how to wear an entire collection at once ...label during New York Fashion Week. From there, Louie tried his hand an art, collaging together fragments from various runway shows, and putting them on... by Ann Binlot
Documented A retrospective into Erwin Blumenfeld’s push for radical photography ...a year at Bazaar’s New York base, his decade at Vogue was remarkably productive. By 1947, the New York Times was describing Blumenfeld as one... by Vince Aletti
Above the Fold Meet New Pandemics, the modeling agency that’s looking to bring queer visibility to the forefront ...of religious freedom bills and changes in the Affordable Care Act or Medicaid, which would disproportionately affect those in the community living with HIV and... by Ann Binlot
Above the Fold Telfar’s ‘post-identity’ aesthetic emerges on an East River helipad ...given new life when combined with models dressed in asymmetric tank tops and hair styles that were informed by the image of the late Rick... by Shawn Lakin
Above the Fold Eckhaus Latta brings its inner circle to Bushwick for Spring/Summer 2019 ...ringing on bells, shaking tambourines and pounding on mini gongs. The playful approach provided for a lighter, happier mood—and perhaps the cutest finale of New... by Shawn Lakin
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 Browns finds its kindred spirit in Fred Segal ...people all come and hang out together. And Browns functions that way in London, and anchors the creative community. They’re introducing the newest designers in... by Maxwell Williams
Above the Fold Russian scientists speed up the internet ...don’t have to build or relocate powerful supercomputers when they’re testing out a new idea. They can simply jump online and work out high-precision calculations... 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
Documented This is the New York skyline circa 1980 ...it was–an unknown galaxy of magnetic beauty. “They were shot on our roof on the east side near the water tower. I had ample wardrobe... by Glenn O'Brien
Above the Fold Recalling the big hair and even bigger personalities of Wigstock ...every year, Wigstock grew into the stomping ground for the greatest and most notorious drag performers in New York. But Wigstock was more than a... by Shawn Lakin
At Large Empress Of carves out a kingdom ...years in New York, which she says, “was like school—a life education, trying to survive.” Rodriguez’s New York years span Obama’s second term. She was... by Fiona Duncan
Conversations Pat and Anna Cleveland find the rainbows in family jewels ...Giles Spring/Summer 2015 runway show. Since then, she’s lead campaigns for Lanvin, Bottega Veneta and Moschino. Document spoke to the mother and daughter pair about... by Ann Binlot
Above the Fold Global warming causes insects to eat more crops A new scientific paper has discovered that global warming is causing the metabolic rates of insects to rocket, resulting in them eating more crops. The... by Caroline Christie
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 Detroit public schools bring in bottled water to combat contamination ...than a week until the start of the new academic year, the superintendent of the Detroit Public Schools Community District, Nikolai Vitti, said they were... by Caroline Christie
Above the Fold What does AI-generated art look like? ...McKinsey. While it is easy to see how AI could replace cashier positions, factory work and data entry, could it replace creativity? Gradient Descent, an... by Ann Binlot
Above the Fold Shanel Campbell is on the verge ...by the likes of Solange and Issa Rae. On September 5 the New York-based designer, who is also a professor at Parsons, will independently debut... 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 How Hungary’s far-right government is curtailing culture ...“promoting communism.” The country has been stamping out anything that might be seen as pro-migration. A new tax, which was enforced last week, is imposing... by Caroline Christie
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 Not just relegated to politics, Russian bots are now undermining vaccines ...in GW’s School of Engineering and Applied Science. The news comes as cases of measles in the U.S. are on the rise, facing an uptick... by Caroline Christie
Above the Fold And now, a geographic breakdown of America’s sexism Where you grow up matters—especially if you’re a woman. So if you don’t want major aspects of your life to be dictated by chauvinistic attitudes,... 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 UNC students are making history, not erasing it, after toppling Confederate monument ...intervention that led to the statue’s demise, calling it “unlawful and dangerous.” In an opinion piece for the New York Times, scholars of Civil War... by Caroline Christie
Above the Fold An authentic look at people with their very own Birkenstocks ...brand itself. They come from all over the world, and represent every gender, age, class, and ethnicity. With each day that Birkenstock owners wear their... 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
Documented Christelle De Castro zooms in on downtown NYC in ‘Citizens of the Bowery’ ...stylish, affordable and tech-savvy global hotel—exhibition and documentary called Citizens of the Bowery. Before the hotel opens, it will showcase portraits of the colorful, close-knit... by Ann Binlot
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
Above the Fold Nudists flock the Palais de Tokyo ...au natural. With 2018 being one of the hottest years for many countries across the world, is this a trend that will take foot in... 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 Science attempts to explain why the rich and powerful often behave like swine ...that assertion. What the Post’s piece does is bring together new research to join the dots between power, wealth and how we treat other people:... by Caroline Christie
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? ...new stories from emerging. For example, social science research has demonstrated that congestion of the news in the wake of major events like the 9/11... by Brendan Nyhan
Documented “It’s like a blood bath”: Inside the student protests rattling Bangladesh ...to lose their lives at a daily rate. As Document’s New Vanguard Special Reportage winner, she gives us her account of life inside Bangladesh’s brutal... by Caroline Christie
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 ...side, making a commentary on African-American things. With ¡Cholita! I was making a commentary on my Latin background—I’m part Mexican. Bjarne: You were pretty popular... 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 ...shot of Jung wearing a shirt comprised of floral print, whistling before Aida Blue snaps a twig in an oxblood trench and Jung kisses a... by Ann Binlot
Above the Fold Watch Document dance with lifestyle label 69 through its new exhibition at MOCA Los Angeles ...MOCA Pacific Design Center, comes with the cheeky title “Déjà Vu,” speaking to the archival nature of the objects, textile sculptures and garments. MOCA deems... by Shawn Lakin
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 ...is an educator, transdisciplinary artist, and the current Ford Curatorial Fellow at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. In Paradise Travel Company, presently featured at... 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
Above the Fold Project depicting names of drowned refugees mysteriously disappears from Liverpool Biennial ...Manifesto newspaper for World Refugee Day, and has been shown internationally. The names are compiled and updated by United for Intercultural Action, the pan European... by Caroline Christie
Documented In celebration of summer holidays, Document 12 contributors bring us to their favorite places ...of Zermatt and writer Emily Manning pays a visit to the oldest gay bar in New York, Julius. Discover the incredibly diverse and international realm... by Vetle Egeland