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 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 Documented 50 years later, a new look at the 1968 Paris protests from a lost archive ...protests, but few commentaries can offer a lived recollection from the perspective of the streets. Lisette Prince was one such witness to “Les Événements,” working... by Daisy Prince Above the Fold Another reminder that marijuana arrests in NYC are still (extremely) racially biased ...than white communities, according to the New York Times. The NYPD would have you believe that the reason for this disparity isn’t related to hitting... by Caroline Christie Conversations Luca Guadagnino has conquered love, now he hopes to scare the world ...is it like to come up for air at one of the biggest parties on the planet? Luca—It’s fun, actually. It’s interesting to see the... by Nathan Taylor Pemberton Above the Fold The dissident art of ‘cruising’ gets a pavilion at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale ...expanding cities, the clean facades of morality that cling to every new urban development. The pavilion is a welcome rejoinder to the chosen theme for... by Caroline Christie 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 Above the Fold Is a film festival sponsored by the Israeli government an incident of ‘art-washing?’ ...not tell a compelling story if its subject happens to be Israeli. You can’t help coming from where you come from. So I chewed on... by Caroline Christie Above the Fold Christopher Kane’s propensity for playful subversion lands at your feet Christopher Kane’s new collaboration with The Rug Company brings highlights from runways past to your living room floor. The Rug Company, whose previous collaborations have... by Maraya Fisher Above the Fold Jean-Michel Basquiat’s ‘Flesh and Spirit’ is at the center of an art family’s legal feud A legal challenge led by a prominent New York art collector against Sotheby’s over the scheduled auctioning off of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s “Flesh and Spirit” has... by Caroline Christie 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 Documented The world through a pinhole: the unseen paintings of Howardena Pindell As a painting student in the late 1960s, Howardena Pindell worked in a figurative style. Following a move to New York in 1967 in her... by Inga Fraser Above the Fold An exhibit celebrating fashion’s fascination with ‘Heavenly Bodies’ A parade of halos, jeweled crosses, and Papal tiaras marched down a red carpet in New York on May 7th. It wasn’t a Catholic procession... by Ann Binlot Above the Fold Uber’s self-driving car purposefully ignored the pedestrian it fatally struck ...programming. The technological promise of Uber, or its self-driving cars, is still extremely exposed to human bias. The research examined testimonies from Uber drivers who... by Caroline Christie Above the Fold How Prada’s music producer Frédéric Sanchez landed on 90s classics for their 2019 Resort show ...gig for Maison Martin Margiela show in 1988. Ahead of the first Prada’s 2019 Cruise show in New York—its first in the city after a... by Megan Wray Schertler Above the Fold Curating the curator who “didn’t buy the bullshit” of the art world When Frieze invited Matthew Higgs, the director and chief curator of White Columns to propose an idea for Frieze New York’s first curated section, he... by Ann Binlot Above the Fold The first day of Frieze was a furnace, making collectors cranky ...for people to return to Manhattan was also long. I surveyed the line to find somebody I knew. “It’s hot. There’s no air conditioning. You... by Ann Binlot 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 Jordan Nassar is delicately weaving a new vision into one of Palestine’s cultural legacies Jordan Nassar is a Palestinian-American artist who has decided to engage with the ever complex layering of global communities and customs with work that is,... by Alex Bacon Above the Fold Big books and bigger sticker prices are for big boys, only, researchers conclude Books penned by female authors fetch nearly 50 percent less of the price of their male counterparts according to new research out of the City... by Caroline Christie Above the Fold Smuggled into Claire Fontaine’s ‘Untitled (Tennis Ball Sculpture)’ ...prescient at present, what with social media shaping up to be our brand new Big Brother and the continuing fight for justice and reform when... by Joshua Seidner Above the Fold Photographer Sanlé Sory made stars out of the youth of Burkina Faso in the 1960s ...and costumes. The portraits from Volta Photo each share the lightness of independence, the flowing energy of youth and the sharp focus of a national... by Olivia Dillingham Conversations Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asia Kate Dillon on the fine art of creative survival ...an actor began on the stage, having featured in The Mysteries at New York City’s Flea Theater and in The Tempest at the Shakespeare Theatre... by Megan Wray Schertler Conversations The directors of ‘McQueen’ on portraying the designer’s life beyond the tabloids and tell-alls ...I hope that comes across in the film. She really fed his imagination, his sense of fantasy, through her own historical research and her own... by Shawn Lakin Above the Fold Wildlife photography has a surprisingly sketchy underbelly ...told BBC News. And while, he’s right, a stuffed anteater being carted into a Brazilian nature preserve would turn heads, the competition has scientific proof... by Caroline Christie Above the Fold Culture can cure cities, but it can plague them, too Think-tank Bell Labs have published new research that unpacks a question that has fascinated sociologists for decades: Does culture have a positive impact on cities?... by Caroline Christie 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 ...seen but nothing is communicated. For Weiwei, who proclaimed to the New Yorker‘s Evan Osnos this past fall that “there are no bad selfies,” the... 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 Making its premiere at New York’s Tribeca Film Festival this week is a new short documentary on four Italian women who’ve traded the comfort of... by David Plaisant At Large Visions of Vigilantism ...of The Last Jedi and superhero movies, in its own image—and it’s a drab thing to behold. After years of complaining about its parents’ unwillingness... by Jonathon Sturgeon Above the Fold Why has South Korea suddenly paused the K-Pop blaring across the DMZ? ...to defect and cross the border into freedom. South Korea also broadcasts political chatter and weather updates. “Useful things for Northern soldiers to listen to—news... by Caroline Christie 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 The artist captured air samples from major cities across the globe in his latest installation, which has been deemed unfit for public exposure.... by Caroline Christie Above the Fold Sofia Coppola on the ‘universal’ girlhood she captured in ‘The Virgin Suicides’ and on being rediscovered by a new generation This past week, a small throng of fans quietly queued outside of Bookmarc in New York City’s West Village to come face-to-face with Sofia Coppola,... by Nathan Taylor Pemberton 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 Above the Fold The costs of trying to touch the sky ...the 90s. Just yesterday, the New York Times published an in-depth investigation that warned of San Francisco’s dreams of building sky high could soon come... by Caroline Christie At Large Automated for the people ...summer of 1960, when faced with the creative destruction of computing and the imminent fear that retail associates might be replaced by automation, the Retail... by Mindy Meissen Conversations Photographer William Klein has spent a lifetime looking at the world ...treat New York and the people in New York like Zulus. I thought that was the way to treat the citizens of New York. Did... by Hans Ulrich Obrist At Large Lucie and Luke Meier are in pursuit of minimalism’s soul ...makes the company so powerful in terms of making things: every piece is slightly different, the finishing, the detailing, the construction. It’s always a new... by Anders Christian Madsen Above the Fold Cynthia Nixon is pulling Andrew Cuomo’s strings ...associated with policing the drug. “There are a lot of good reasons for legalizing marijuana,” she said, “but for me, it comes down to this:... by Caroline Christie Above the Fold Amy Arbus on her photo ‘Julio Q’ ...society is getting because of who’s in power, it ends up forcing people to come out and protest and be different and make statements. Made... 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 The doors of the Chelsea Hotel are being auctioned to support the homeless ...opened in 1880, it’s been a home for New York City’s writers and artists alike. Arthur Miller repeatedly complained to the management that SCUM manifesto... by Caroline Christie 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 ...he explored the new American West at the World Gay Rodeo Finals in Albuquerque, New Mexico, as described by the writer Mark Smith, and traversed... by Nick Vogelson At Large The existential paranoia fueling Elon Musk’s fear of AI ...square with the realities of distributed networks of humans who are aided by AI that help them do terrible things. Take, for instance, the COMPAS... 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 ...2013’s Still Life (Betamale), with its mesh of furries, hentai, and filthy keyboards exemplary of contemporary kitsch, colored with bathos and the sinister synth drones... by Barrett White
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
Documented 50 years later, a new look at the 1968 Paris protests from a lost archive ...protests, but few commentaries can offer a lived recollection from the perspective of the streets. Lisette Prince was one such witness to “Les Événements,” working... by Daisy Prince
Above the Fold Another reminder that marijuana arrests in NYC are still (extremely) racially biased ...than white communities, according to the New York Times. The NYPD would have you believe that the reason for this disparity isn’t related to hitting... by Caroline Christie
Conversations Luca Guadagnino has conquered love, now he hopes to scare the world ...is it like to come up for air at one of the biggest parties on the planet? Luca—It’s fun, actually. It’s interesting to see the... by Nathan Taylor Pemberton
Above the Fold The dissident art of ‘cruising’ gets a pavilion at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale ...expanding cities, the clean facades of morality that cling to every new urban development. The pavilion is a welcome rejoinder to the chosen theme for... by Caroline Christie
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
Above the Fold Is a film festival sponsored by the Israeli government an incident of ‘art-washing?’ ...not tell a compelling story if its subject happens to be Israeli. You can’t help coming from where you come from. So I chewed on... by Caroline Christie
Above the Fold Christopher Kane’s propensity for playful subversion lands at your feet Christopher Kane’s new collaboration with The Rug Company brings highlights from runways past to your living room floor. The Rug Company, whose previous collaborations have... by Maraya Fisher
Above the Fold Jean-Michel Basquiat’s ‘Flesh and Spirit’ is at the center of an art family’s legal feud A legal challenge led by a prominent New York art collector against Sotheby’s over the scheduled auctioning off of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s “Flesh and Spirit” has... by Caroline Christie
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
Documented The world through a pinhole: the unseen paintings of Howardena Pindell As a painting student in the late 1960s, Howardena Pindell worked in a figurative style. Following a move to New York in 1967 in her... by Inga Fraser
Above the Fold An exhibit celebrating fashion’s fascination with ‘Heavenly Bodies’ A parade of halos, jeweled crosses, and Papal tiaras marched down a red carpet in New York on May 7th. It wasn’t a Catholic procession... by Ann Binlot
Above the Fold Uber’s self-driving car purposefully ignored the pedestrian it fatally struck ...programming. The technological promise of Uber, or its self-driving cars, is still extremely exposed to human bias. The research examined testimonies from Uber drivers who... by Caroline Christie
Above the Fold How Prada’s music producer Frédéric Sanchez landed on 90s classics for their 2019 Resort show ...gig for Maison Martin Margiela show in 1988. Ahead of the first Prada’s 2019 Cruise show in New York—its first in the city after a... by Megan Wray Schertler
Above the Fold Curating the curator who “didn’t buy the bullshit” of the art world When Frieze invited Matthew Higgs, the director and chief curator of White Columns to propose an idea for Frieze New York’s first curated section, he... by Ann Binlot
Above the Fold The first day of Frieze was a furnace, making collectors cranky ...for people to return to Manhattan was also long. I surveyed the line to find somebody I knew. “It’s hot. There’s no air conditioning. You... by Ann Binlot
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 Jordan Nassar is delicately weaving a new vision into one of Palestine’s cultural legacies Jordan Nassar is a Palestinian-American artist who has decided to engage with the ever complex layering of global communities and customs with work that is,... by Alex Bacon
Above the Fold Big books and bigger sticker prices are for big boys, only, researchers conclude Books penned by female authors fetch nearly 50 percent less of the price of their male counterparts according to new research out of the City... by Caroline Christie
Above the Fold Smuggled into Claire Fontaine’s ‘Untitled (Tennis Ball Sculpture)’ ...prescient at present, what with social media shaping up to be our brand new Big Brother and the continuing fight for justice and reform when... by Joshua Seidner
Above the Fold Photographer Sanlé Sory made stars out of the youth of Burkina Faso in the 1960s ...and costumes. The portraits from Volta Photo each share the lightness of independence, the flowing energy of youth and the sharp focus of a national... by Olivia Dillingham
Conversations Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asia Kate Dillon on the fine art of creative survival ...an actor began on the stage, having featured in The Mysteries at New York City’s Flea Theater and in The Tempest at the Shakespeare Theatre... by Megan Wray Schertler
Conversations The directors of ‘McQueen’ on portraying the designer’s life beyond the tabloids and tell-alls ...I hope that comes across in the film. She really fed his imagination, his sense of fantasy, through her own historical research and her own... by Shawn Lakin
Above the Fold Wildlife photography has a surprisingly sketchy underbelly ...told BBC News. And while, he’s right, a stuffed anteater being carted into a Brazilian nature preserve would turn heads, the competition has scientific proof... by Caroline Christie
Above the Fold Culture can cure cities, but it can plague them, too Think-tank Bell Labs have published new research that unpacks a question that has fascinated sociologists for decades: Does culture have a positive impact on cities?... by Caroline Christie
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 ...seen but nothing is communicated. For Weiwei, who proclaimed to the New Yorker‘s Evan Osnos this past fall that “there are no bad selfies,” the... 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 Making its premiere at New York’s Tribeca Film Festival this week is a new short documentary on four Italian women who’ve traded the comfort of... by David Plaisant
At Large Visions of Vigilantism ...of The Last Jedi and superhero movies, in its own image—and it’s a drab thing to behold. After years of complaining about its parents’ unwillingness... by Jonathon Sturgeon
Above the Fold Why has South Korea suddenly paused the K-Pop blaring across the DMZ? ...to defect and cross the border into freedom. South Korea also broadcasts political chatter and weather updates. “Useful things for Northern soldiers to listen to—news... by Caroline Christie
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 The artist captured air samples from major cities across the globe in his latest installation, which has been deemed unfit for public exposure.... by Caroline Christie
Above the Fold Sofia Coppola on the ‘universal’ girlhood she captured in ‘The Virgin Suicides’ and on being rediscovered by a new generation This past week, a small throng of fans quietly queued outside of Bookmarc in New York City’s West Village to come face-to-face with Sofia Coppola,... by Nathan Taylor Pemberton
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
Above the Fold The costs of trying to touch the sky ...the 90s. Just yesterday, the New York Times published an in-depth investigation that warned of San Francisco’s dreams of building sky high could soon come... by Caroline Christie
At Large Automated for the people ...summer of 1960, when faced with the creative destruction of computing and the imminent fear that retail associates might be replaced by automation, the Retail... by Mindy Meissen
Conversations Photographer William Klein has spent a lifetime looking at the world ...treat New York and the people in New York like Zulus. I thought that was the way to treat the citizens of New York. Did... by Hans Ulrich Obrist
At Large Lucie and Luke Meier are in pursuit of minimalism’s soul ...makes the company so powerful in terms of making things: every piece is slightly different, the finishing, the detailing, the construction. It’s always a new... by Anders Christian Madsen
Above the Fold Cynthia Nixon is pulling Andrew Cuomo’s strings ...associated with policing the drug. “There are a lot of good reasons for legalizing marijuana,” she said, “but for me, it comes down to this:... by Caroline Christie
Above the Fold Amy Arbus on her photo ‘Julio Q’ ...society is getting because of who’s in power, it ends up forcing people to come out and protest and be different and make statements. Made... 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 The doors of the Chelsea Hotel are being auctioned to support the homeless ...opened in 1880, it’s been a home for New York City’s writers and artists alike. Arthur Miller repeatedly complained to the management that SCUM manifesto... by Caroline Christie
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 ...he explored the new American West at the World Gay Rodeo Finals in Albuquerque, New Mexico, as described by the writer Mark Smith, and traversed... by Nick Vogelson
At Large The existential paranoia fueling Elon Musk’s fear of AI ...square with the realities of distributed networks of humans who are aided by AI that help them do terrible things. Take, for instance, the COMPAS... 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 ...2013’s Still Life (Betamale), with its mesh of furries, hentai, and filthy keyboards exemplary of contemporary kitsch, colored with bathos and the sinister synth drones... by Barrett White