Films to hold on to summer
...coldest and darkest of winter evenings. Summer means school is suspended and travel is par for the course; there are no rules. Its visual language...
Daytripping: The writer and the rave
...with their communication; for me, their communication is the noise interfering with my communion with the music. “The suppression of variation opens up another kind...
Sophia Giovannitti on sex, art, and labor
Art and sex shouldn’t be commodified—or so we’re told. They’re “seemingly sacred forms of human expression,” Sophia Giovannitti writes, describing how, despite this, the industries...
Edan Lepucki’s ‘Time’s Mouth’ is a supernatural labyrinth of past and present
Edan Lepucki has done it again. Since her New York Times best-selling novel California made pre-order history in 2014, she has become a pivotal West...
Remembering Jamie Reid, the creative renegade who forged punk’s visual identity
...in his final years. Well into his 70s, he was still collaborating on political art with balaclava-wearing anarchists like Pussy Riot: the latest installment in...
Aesthetically Incorrect: Inside the Glenn Martens universe
Glenn Martens might be one of Europe’s busiest designers. On top of leading the cutting-edge label Y/Project for the past decade, since 2020 he’s helmed...
Candy Claws’s playlist for a road trip through the past
...can simultaneously feel like a lifetime and no time at all.” Hank Bertholf “Deep Blue Day” by Brian Eno “This song reminds me of how...
Maya Binyam’s ‘Hangman’ is an existential journey
...a testament to the unspoken effects that diaspora and history have on identity, cross-examining the meaning of possession as it pertains to the self, and...
The unpredictable, genre-less magic of Cooler Nights
...possibilities of performance without genre are at the crux of Voluminous Arts—allowing for the generative potential of cross-contamination, freeing one’s sound from the rigid labels...
Lee Pace contains multitudes
...NYC. Brother Day is the latest in a long line of clones that make up the galaxy’s ruling class—meaning that, in Foundation, Pace has been...
Strange Ranger reaches for euphoria
...up. But, yes, in theory. That does come, and it will. Nathan: At its best, playing live always has a bit of that for me....
Big Ash is the next generation of New York indie retail
...is a friend, even if they’ve never met; this come one, come all spirit is what makes Big Ash far more than just a store—it’s...
Face to face with the future of Shanghai fashion
...archetypal nomad, leaning on common material to critique constant production, and the alienation that comes with it. These creatives work in pursuit of highly-specific missions—distinct,...
Overheard at Casual Encounterz’s Lower East Side salon
...cigarettes and conversations as readers handed off the spotlight. Document shares what we overheard at the literary world’s latest bicoastal forum. “Trust me, I’m not...
Daytripping: I put a spell on you
...version by Sonique, and a techno version by Andrea Signore. Few have the deranged energy of Screamin’ Jay, although that Marilyn Manson version—oy. “Artists cast...
Bookmarked: Everything the Document editors watched, read, ate, bought, and listened to in July
...discussing the peaks and valleys of the latest season of Succession (as one does). I—with my bad habit of looking at the ground as I...
Sally Potter talks time travel and other mysteries
...kind of misnomer, because live improvised music is simply fast composition. It’s spontaneous, in-the-moment composition. If I sit down to write, I’m improvising with the...
The deception and seduction of TikTok’s ‘Aged’ filter
...dermatologists are calling “very accurate,” employs AI to estimate what we’ll look like as we age—down to every last gray hair—teasing out our prospective futures...
‘Barbie’ was a great movie—should that worry us?
...the toy company her husband co-founded. She would go on to redesign it, naming the new version after her daughter—the first of Barbie’s countless reinventions....
The modern German fairytales of Christian Petzold
...coming out of the museum, and she wants to meet the guy whom she later has to kill. And she is full of anger and...
Can lyrics hold up in a court of law?
...that he and 27 other members of the label were charged as a part of a “criminal street gang,” allegedly involved in a series of...
Would you dox a bad date?
...not respond to repeated requests for comment, the name is common enough that “a little investigative digging” on Beccia’s part doesn’t seem sufficient to claim...
Caroline Calloway lies to tell the truth
...to Beach’s assertion that she was Caroline Calloway—the series was her first attempt to tell her side of the story. Scammer is the latest, but...
For Cut Worms, melody is the heart of a song’s magnetism
...of sense. On his latest release, the man behind the music, Max Clarke, applies the warmth of ’60s rock onto present-day productional effects. With arrangements...
‘Tagadà’ charts the electrifying funfairs of Paolo Zerbini’s youth
“This project is a feeling, a sensation embodied by cheap shimmering lights and worn-out plastic surfaces, a spinning wheel of curiosity and insecurity,” Paolo Zerbini...
‘Natural Wonder Beauty Concept’ is intentionally formless and placeless
...the former’s move to New York. As both are practicing musicians, their time together was often spent listening to Portishead, HTRK, and Björk on otherwise...
The battle for the soul of Hollywood
...SAG-AFTRA’s chief negotiators, Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, put it: “They proposed that our background performers should be able to be scanned, get one day’s pay, and their...
Aerthship is an effort toward eco-harmony
...through a sustainable release, whatever that means; whether you’re at Pierce’s future restaurant, and it’s completely zero waste and sourcing the best broccoli; I think...
Portraits of Brussels’s free party movement, through James Brodribb’s lens
...director Sarah Benjamin on a portrait series of free parties’ modern cast of characters—was moved by the values the community’s held onto: “freedom, expression, love,...
At the Chelsea Hotel, queer subculture continues to thrive
...me test my tolerance for pain on a bed of nails she’d had custom-made. “I wouldn’t do this without an audience.”) Left: God Complex. Right:...
For Moncler Genuis’s latest, luxury takes a hike
...outdoors. This collection embodies a juxtaposition of ethos rarely seen in either environment.” Moncler Genius x Salehe Bembury touches down in selected Moncler stores and...
Daytripping: Bushwick nationalism
...culture works. I think about this while contemplating the racket coming in through the front windows of my new apartment. We’re on a busy thoroughfare...
‘Quantum Piñata’ is a talent show for the artistically-aware
...boasts performances spanning underground music, audio-visual media, puppetry, free jazz, and performance art. Variety show is maybe a more accurately mature term by which to...
Behind the scenes of Yard Act’s “The Trench Coat Museum”
...step out of Everyday James and into Performing Artist James. The garment proved ripe for contending with those distinct selves, culminating in the band’s latest...
COBRAH dances to the beat of her own desire
...Peaches, Big Freedia, Junglepussy, Rebecca Black, and COBRAH—Sweden’s best-kept secret. In surrender to the crescendo of Pride, LadyLand soaked up the energy of its sea...
Nike’s ‘Goddess Awakened’ show was a spectacle of power
...when it comes to mental health—for instance, depression is also more common among those who’ve given birth. When it comes to anxiety, the Anxiety and...
Hot girls walked so girl dinner could run
...rejection of the picturesque, put-together version of femininity championed by aspirational content… suggesting a declining interest in wellness trends that revolve around the labor of...
Niia and Michael Imperioli philosophize on the generosity of art
...she already has, and how to translate it into art without letting it define her. The jazz musician’s latest record, Bobby Deerfield, released under her...
The divine gifts of ‘The Starling Girl’
...taking advantage of me. Where did I learn to experience that guilt?” In making The Starling Girl, Parmet was committed to emphasizing the complexity of...
At #CreateCOP28, art is the answer
...United Nations’s head offices in New York alongside past #CreateCOP winners. Initially launched in 2019 by Art Partner’s Director and Senior Agent, Amber Testino, the...
‘The Exhilaration’ is Jonah Almost’s summer-in-the-city tour de force
...with not-too-serious lyrics laid over. It’s music to party to, simultaneously of-its-time and reminiscent of the clubbing landscape of the early-aughts—maximalist, amusing, compelling, best listened...
A man’s AI-powered girlfriend has been named as an accomplice in his murder attempt
...as “the AI companion who cares,” Replika runs on a version of OpenAI’s ChatGPT that has been customized to make it more engaging (and which,...
‘Public Enemy’ charts 30 years of Gary Simmons
...Street Festival in Brooklyn, and a Harlem basketball court—and invited passersby to pose for a photo with them. Simmons sweetened the offer, promising a free...
‘Earth Mama’ finds tenderness in solidarity
...for care—the trees that form networks of support, the roots that insist upon a foundational connectedness. How did the ‘earth’ component of Earth Mama come...
The Japanese House wants to hold onto heartbreak
...what the saddest thing is? She won’t.” At the time, Bain laughed it off and called her friend an asshole—but several months and one breakup...
smilegoth’s soundtrack for a cold ocean wave, a transient moment, a walk in the park
...by bar italia “Or anything off their record Tracey Denim. bar italia is probably the coolest and best band right now—we all know this. untitled...
Emily Allan makes art from the rabbit hole
...it’s not me. There’s no alter ego, and I’m not writing about someone else. But I definitely used the beats to free associate, so there...
Behind the scenes at Carl Craig’s Movement Festival set
Over the span of his 30-year career, DJ Carl Craig has combined jazz and techno, funk and electronica, house and new wave—synthesizing his far-flung interests...
‘Workflow’ interrogates repetitive and embodied violence
...Leonard joins Document to expound upon his film’s intent, and muse on the compassion of comedy and the ways in which culture has declined since...
