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
Conversations How Lia Gangitano became the patron curator for the New York’s most subversive artists ...from commercial galleries or institutions.” Linda: What prompted you to move to New York right after ‘Boston School?’ Lia: I had been at the ICA... by Linda Yablonski Documented Spencer Sweeney’s beguiling, generous self-portraiture “Think about Magritte and his ‘Vache’ period: painter as self-deprecating clown. ‘Stupid as a painter,’ Duchamp famously said. Beguiling, generous painting that questions what is... by Document Journal Conversations Performance artist Marie Karlberg breaks down the price of a soul ...persona. And then after you’ve completely absorbed it in you realize you don’t need to completely be this thing, then it becomes an element that... by Desi Santiago Conversations Acclaimed dancer David Hallberg thinks of ballet in existential terms—and shows us his ‘dirty side’ ...not always about beauty. I think it goes deeper than that. I think it begins to uncover disturbing existential questions of why we are here.... by Charles Renfro Conversations Luck Be a Lady Toronto-born and raised, Ladyfag, came to New York City on a whim eight years ago. Working at a vintage clothing and antiques store back in... by Derek Blasberg Documented Tabboo! The muse as artist ...but the combination exploded rather than irritated. He was amazing at a radical but comfortable looking presentation. I was rather less so. Fresh from the... by Jack Pierson Conversations Vivienne Westwood on why climate revolution is the next punk frontier ...40 years. It began in 1971 when Malcom McLaren and she opened the punk boutique Let it Rock (later known as SEX) at 430 Kings... by Benjamin-Émile Le Hay At Large Pure Murder: An American Honor Killing ...a message or catch me on aim, my screen name is johnkatehis92, my yahoo is greeksatan92@yahoo.com, johnkatehis92@yahoo.com and my msn is greekjohn92@hotmail.com. You can ask... by David McConnell Documented Lucio Fontana’s ‘hot lava’ ceramics, through the eyes of Sterling Ruby ...Fontana have this unique talent of combining the spontaneity of the process with an incredible sophistication. Looking at works of Fontana through the Ruby’s eyes... by Daniele Balice At Large The Source Family is one of L.A.’s most infamous cults: Isis Aquarian takes Document behind the curtain ...from the garage. Today, the proprietors of Il Piccolino, one of the most famous restaurants in West Hollywood, live here. “All of the celebrities come... by Chiara Barzini Documented Architect Wang Shu wants to kill all the icons ...(1). I wish to thank the judges for their insight and comments. As the first architect born and educated in China to win this award,... by Aric Chen At Large Bryan Adams reenergizes the concept of celebrity portraits Bryan Adams’s photography reenergizes the concept of celebrity portraits, here he shows some of the images from his new book and speaks to the key... by Document Journal Conversations In my own mind Maurizio Cattelan’s work breathes the violent clarity of very few words: taxidermy, Hitler, the Pope! No surprise Maurizio’s latest project, the print magazine Toilet Paper... by Rachel Pidcock Documented The Three Deaths of Pier Paolo Pasolini ...this with little deliberation—that his demise marked the end of Italian cinema. A decade and a half later, I now know a lot more about... by Tijana Mamula Conversations Architect Charles Renfro on the controversial renaissance of Cuba’s National Art Schools ...to house more than just artists, to be the physical embodiment of a national pride. Their architectural conception would be completely new; a style the... by Charles Renfro Above the Fold From ‘Let Me In’ to ‘The Road,’ actor Kodi Smit-McPhee is brings a strength beyond his years ...didn’t help that these days some of the most common suggested Google searches for Kodi include “Kodi Smit-McPhee shirtless,” “Kodi Smit-McPhee girlfriend” and “Kodi Smit-McPhee... by Briallen Hopper Documented ‘Oedipus Rex’: Francesco Vezzoli exposes our baroque, surreal reality ...or Frieze to Qatar? Our so-called educational ambitions are commendable, however all the meanings, complexities and symbolic systems at play in art will have to... by Daniele Balice Conversations Nir Hod on the intimate craft of portraiture and his ‘new geniuses’ Israeli artist Nir Hod lives and works in New York, and is represented by the Paul Kasmin Gallery in New York. Hod began his career... by Amy Phelan Conversations A tête-a-tête with Joey Arias, from Cirque de Soleil to ‘creative incest’ ...walking on a staircase and every step you take will be a new adventure, a new position.” And it’s true. You take a new step... by Jake Shears Above the Fold ‘Infidels,’ or falling in love with Marilyn Monroe: a work of fiction by Abdellah Tai ...I knew the soldier. He was going to leave that night. He was marching toward death. He knew it. I knew it. No one would... by Abdellah Taïa Documented Zebra Katz’s contagious zero-degree hip hop ...Jeffree’s; he was commissioned by the Museum of Arts and Design to create new work and opening gigs for Lana Del Rey. Finally, the Florida... by Jake Yuzna Above the Fold Maurizio Anzeri’s ‘needle heads’ turn nostalgic subjects into alien bodies ...on the freedom to experiment, compare and blend together a variety of inputs and aesthetic proposals. Everything comes together in hindsight. Consider the collision of... by Mariuccia Casadio Above the Fold Isaac Mizrahi unites his creative threads through cabaret ...He’s a married man now. A newlywed. Last December he and Arnold Germer were married at the New York City Clerk’s Office. I wasn’t sure... by Troy Chatterton Documented Justin Vivian Bond meditates on Marilyn Monroe, Blanche Dubois, and the allure of pearls ...Of course there are ways of rewarding oneself for falsely imbuing the future with a golden, rosy glow. But the real test comes from a... by Justin Vivian Bond Above the Fold Bookmarc curates the ultimate collection of artbooks ...of it for each of your friends and hope that they are all just as enchanted. Imagine a collection comprising tomes by the precocious Basquiat,... by Alex Aciman Above the Fold “Who Says Pain is Erotic?” This Saturday, April 16, Fortnight Institute presents an exhibition of works by Ohio-based artist Carmen Winant, titled “Who Says Pain is Erotic?” Winant’s first solo... by Drew Sawyer
Conversations How Lia Gangitano became the patron curator for the New York’s most subversive artists ...from commercial galleries or institutions.” Linda: What prompted you to move to New York right after ‘Boston School?’ Lia: I had been at the ICA... by Linda Yablonski
Documented Spencer Sweeney’s beguiling, generous self-portraiture “Think about Magritte and his ‘Vache’ period: painter as self-deprecating clown. ‘Stupid as a painter,’ Duchamp famously said. Beguiling, generous painting that questions what is... by Document Journal
Conversations Performance artist Marie Karlberg breaks down the price of a soul ...persona. And then after you’ve completely absorbed it in you realize you don’t need to completely be this thing, then it becomes an element that... by Desi Santiago
Conversations Acclaimed dancer David Hallberg thinks of ballet in existential terms—and shows us his ‘dirty side’ ...not always about beauty. I think it goes deeper than that. I think it begins to uncover disturbing existential questions of why we are here.... by Charles Renfro
Conversations Luck Be a Lady Toronto-born and raised, Ladyfag, came to New York City on a whim eight years ago. Working at a vintage clothing and antiques store back in... by Derek Blasberg
Documented Tabboo! The muse as artist ...but the combination exploded rather than irritated. He was amazing at a radical but comfortable looking presentation. I was rather less so. Fresh from the... by Jack Pierson
Conversations Vivienne Westwood on why climate revolution is the next punk frontier ...40 years. It began in 1971 when Malcom McLaren and she opened the punk boutique Let it Rock (later known as SEX) at 430 Kings... by Benjamin-Émile Le Hay
At Large Pure Murder: An American Honor Killing ...a message or catch me on aim, my screen name is johnkatehis92, my yahoo is greeksatan92@yahoo.com, johnkatehis92@yahoo.com and my msn is greekjohn92@hotmail.com. You can ask... by David McConnell
Documented Lucio Fontana’s ‘hot lava’ ceramics, through the eyes of Sterling Ruby ...Fontana have this unique talent of combining the spontaneity of the process with an incredible sophistication. Looking at works of Fontana through the Ruby’s eyes... by Daniele Balice
At Large The Source Family is one of L.A.’s most infamous cults: Isis Aquarian takes Document behind the curtain ...from the garage. Today, the proprietors of Il Piccolino, one of the most famous restaurants in West Hollywood, live here. “All of the celebrities come... by Chiara Barzini
Documented Architect Wang Shu wants to kill all the icons ...(1). I wish to thank the judges for their insight and comments. As the first architect born and educated in China to win this award,... by Aric Chen
At Large Bryan Adams reenergizes the concept of celebrity portraits Bryan Adams’s photography reenergizes the concept of celebrity portraits, here he shows some of the images from his new book and speaks to the key... by Document Journal
Conversations In my own mind Maurizio Cattelan’s work breathes the violent clarity of very few words: taxidermy, Hitler, the Pope! No surprise Maurizio’s latest project, the print magazine Toilet Paper... by Rachel Pidcock
Documented The Three Deaths of Pier Paolo Pasolini ...this with little deliberation—that his demise marked the end of Italian cinema. A decade and a half later, I now know a lot more about... by Tijana Mamula
Conversations Architect Charles Renfro on the controversial renaissance of Cuba’s National Art Schools ...to house more than just artists, to be the physical embodiment of a national pride. Their architectural conception would be completely new; a style the... by Charles Renfro
Above the Fold From ‘Let Me In’ to ‘The Road,’ actor Kodi Smit-McPhee is brings a strength beyond his years ...didn’t help that these days some of the most common suggested Google searches for Kodi include “Kodi Smit-McPhee shirtless,” “Kodi Smit-McPhee girlfriend” and “Kodi Smit-McPhee... by Briallen Hopper
Documented ‘Oedipus Rex’: Francesco Vezzoli exposes our baroque, surreal reality ...or Frieze to Qatar? Our so-called educational ambitions are commendable, however all the meanings, complexities and symbolic systems at play in art will have to... by Daniele Balice
Conversations Nir Hod on the intimate craft of portraiture and his ‘new geniuses’ Israeli artist Nir Hod lives and works in New York, and is represented by the Paul Kasmin Gallery in New York. Hod began his career... by Amy Phelan
Conversations A tête-a-tête with Joey Arias, from Cirque de Soleil to ‘creative incest’ ...walking on a staircase and every step you take will be a new adventure, a new position.” And it’s true. You take a new step... by Jake Shears
Above the Fold ‘Infidels,’ or falling in love with Marilyn Monroe: a work of fiction by Abdellah Tai ...I knew the soldier. He was going to leave that night. He was marching toward death. He knew it. I knew it. No one would... by Abdellah Taïa
Documented Zebra Katz’s contagious zero-degree hip hop ...Jeffree’s; he was commissioned by the Museum of Arts and Design to create new work and opening gigs for Lana Del Rey. Finally, the Florida... by Jake Yuzna
Above the Fold Maurizio Anzeri’s ‘needle heads’ turn nostalgic subjects into alien bodies ...on the freedom to experiment, compare and blend together a variety of inputs and aesthetic proposals. Everything comes together in hindsight. Consider the collision of... by Mariuccia Casadio
Above the Fold Isaac Mizrahi unites his creative threads through cabaret ...He’s a married man now. A newlywed. Last December he and Arnold Germer were married at the New York City Clerk’s Office. I wasn’t sure... by Troy Chatterton
Documented Justin Vivian Bond meditates on Marilyn Monroe, Blanche Dubois, and the allure of pearls ...Of course there are ways of rewarding oneself for falsely imbuing the future with a golden, rosy glow. But the real test comes from a... by Justin Vivian Bond
Above the Fold Bookmarc curates the ultimate collection of artbooks ...of it for each of your friends and hope that they are all just as enchanted. Imagine a collection comprising tomes by the precocious Basquiat,... by Alex Aciman
Above the Fold “Who Says Pain is Erotic?” This Saturday, April 16, Fortnight Institute presents an exhibition of works by Ohio-based artist Carmen Winant, titled “Who Says Pain is Erotic?” Winant’s first solo... by Drew Sawyer