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 Bookmarked: Everything the Document editors watched, read, ate, bought, and listened to in August ...to the big screen, with his latest film Passages. I was able to catch a screening on my final day of summer vacation. It was... by Document Editors Above the Fold Claire A. Nivola’s ‘The House in the Country’ reckons with the past, and leaves it behind ...Oh, yeah, I knew Jackson Pollock, their jaws would drop and stars would come into their eyes,” Nivola recalls. “This is our celebrity culture: It... by Yasmeen Khan Above the Fold Digging in the crates with Chicago’s Mike Dunn Ever since 1990, the year Mike Dunn debuted Free Your Mind, he’s stayed a fixture in Chicago’s music scene. More specifically, the DJ-producer pioneered hip-house,... by Morgan Becker Above the Fold Staying true to FFORME ...embracing the unfussy while maintaining an air of deliberate aesthetic intention. The creative process itself is a testament to this approach, underpinned by the old-school... by Divya Bala Above the Fold Daytripping: Big Gay Summer ...play. There’s always the club and the rave, but it’s good to be outdoors, in the sun, for something other than a protest or a... by McKenzie Wark Above the Fold For the love of a good doll ...33 moveable parts, including a complex shoulder joint that Setrova herself invented, and is constantly, obsessively improving upon. This mad engineer, who started modeling at... by Shanti Escalante-De Mattei Above the Fold On ‘Dystopia Girl’, Harmony plays dress-up ...EP Dystopia Girl, looks like a Parade advertisement on acid. The hot girl furries wave their hands in the air as Harmony, adorned in hot... by Yasmeen Khan Above the Fold ‘Dear Jean Pierre’ is a portrait of a young man on fire ...violence induced by the bourgeois. Situated within the apex of the AIDS epidemic and shattered post-Reaganism, Wojnarowicz scales rage into poetry, rather than submitting to... by Erin Ikeuchi Above the Fold ‘Bottoms’ flips the script on the teen sex comedy These days, the horny comedies of yesteryear are hard to come by. You know what I’m talking about: raunchy teen sex movies about coming-of-age, or... by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold AI art can’t be copyrighted, according to a federal judge ...a claim against Meta and OpenAI for training generative models on her writing in July, to the group of artists suing Stability AI for appropriating... by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold Amelia Winger-Bearskin renders climate optimism with technology ...come together to address our current ecological crisis. Her work for ANTI•VENOM is a combination of AI-altered photography and experimental video art that further interrogates... by Yasmeen Khan Above the Fold Friends With Benefits’s dizzying attempt at utopia ...New York’s favorite downtown flaneur Dean Kissick. “The festival was based on a tantalizing premise: bringing together “𝓪𝓵𝓵 𝓸𝓯 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓼𝓺𝓾𝓪𝓭𝓼 of the new internet”... by Michelle Lhooq Above the Fold ‘An Indigenous Present’ is the the bedrock of its own conversation ...even fail in the process of creating something new,” says Gibson of the greater aesthetic aim of An Indigenous Present beyond representation. Like the many... by Maya Kotomori Above the Fold Laying the line with Róisín Murphy ...In short: I have a complicated relationship with musicians. Having once been one, I feel intimate with them, yet recognize my estrangement. This personal baggage... by Sammy Loren Above the Fold ‘The Love Invention’ is transportive, loud, spontaneous euphoria ...well. You’re just getting to know someone, how they work. Sometimes it doesn’t work—but when it does, it’s great. It’s about complementing somebody [new], it’s... by Morgan Becker Above the Fold Excavating the missing girl—or, at least, the idea of her ...narrators. The comparison to a real-time true crime story exhausts itself quickly. What I mean to ask is: Can we imagine the lost slut as... by Olivia Treynor Above the Fold TikTok’s “mind-reading” algorithm is about to change ...compliance with the Digital Services Act (DSA). This new policy will allow EU users to trade their personalized “For You” page for a chronological feed... by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold Parsing the Willyverse William Ukoh is fixated on freedom. Within the first 15 minutes of our conversation, the Nigerian photographer—now based in Toronto—employs the word 10 times. He... by Josh Greenblatt Above the Fold A preternatural attraction to cuteness ...entourage, immortalized in perfume and plastic. It’s doubtful that Stefani knew the social impact that would come from “I like the way that you are,... by Maya Kotomori Above the Fold Motherhood at the end of the world ...contends with in her latest book The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth. In it, Rush meditates on the lure of... by Alex Hodor-Lee Above the Fold cumgirl8’s “cursed angel” is grade-A, farm-fresh whimsy ...Its competitions are sophisticated, and handled with immense care. The hobby horse makes a cameo in cumgirl8’s “cursed angel” for that disintegration of the boundary... by Megan Hullander Above the Fold For Robert Roest, snarling dogs aren’t always angry ...injected with significance. The artist’s latest series, Six paintings proving angels are really watching over us, is directly indicative of this approach: Everyday clouds become... by Teddy Duncan Jr. Above the Fold The coterie of cardistry ...new recruits. Given the community’s discernible desperation to further enlist new members, the prospect of sexual know-how seems an opportune selling point. Despite a temporary... by Megan Hullander Above the Fold Sunny War is Americana’s brightest star and biggest skeptic ...a testament both to War’s raw talent and to the music industry’s appetite for struggle. While doing press for her new album this past spring,... by Olivia Treynor Above the Fold Films to hold on to summer ...those sweltering days when you’ll do anything to beat the heat. Taking place on the literal hottest day of the year, Do The Right Thing’s... by Anabel Gullo Above the Fold 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... by McKenzie Wark Above the Fold 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... by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold 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... by Diana Ruzova Above the Fold Remembering Jamie Reid, the creative renegade who forged punk’s visual identity ...Starting in the ’70s, the artist leveraged his anarchist politics to create controversial anti-establishment designs—including cover art and posters for the Sex Pistols, which featured... by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold Aesthetically Incorrect: Inside the Glenn Martens universe ...stand as wearable aesthetic manifestos. Layered, twisted, printed, folded, jagged, crumpled, slanted, oversized: Y/Project products (“of course, you completely can’t get rid of the product”)... by Drew Zeiba Above the Fold Candy Claws’s playlist for a road trip through the past ...Sound of Ceres—reunited with former bandmate Hank Bertholf at a wedding in Portland. There, they had the idea to produce “Distortion Spear”—their first new song... by Erin Ikeuchi Above the Fold For Donatien Grau, all roads lead to LA California’s cultural capital is the muse behind ‘De Civitate Angelorum,’ the curator’s new book composed entirely in Latin... by Morgan Becker Above the Fold Maya Binyam’s ‘Hangman’ is an existential journey ...ourselves behind, no matter where we are. These are some of the questions I encountered while reading Maya Binyam’s new novel Hangman, a fictional story... by Vivien Lee Above the Fold 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... by Olivia Treynor Above the Fold Lee Pace contains multitudes ...shoes to walk in.” It’s a painful show to watch, too. Set in 1980s New York at the height of the AIDs epidemic, the play... by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold Strange Ranger reaches for euphoria The band speaks on their latest album, ‘Pure Music,’ the spirituality of performance, and the age-old tradition of art-making... by Maraya Fisher Above the Fold 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... by Maya Kotomori Above the Fold 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,... by Morgan Becker Above the Fold Overheard at Casual Encounterz’s Lower East Side salon Last Thursday, LA-based literary series Casual Encounterz hosted its final New York reading this summer. Founded by writer and producer Sammy Loren, the program aims... by Yasmeen Khan Above the Fold Daytripping: I put a spell on you ...standing on the sidewalk wondering who I can text when two people come over to offer me unused tickets. I’m really touched by this. Ravers... by McKenzie Wark Above the Fold 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... by Document Editors Above the Fold 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... by Olivia Treynor Above the Fold Racquel Chevremont melds death with decadence With her first commercial exhibition This Too Shall Pass, curator Racquel Chevremont turns the gallery into a greenhouse. Fluorescent flowers line the white walls of... by Yasmeen Khan Above the Fold 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... by Erin Ikeuchi Fashion Portfolio Photographer Hedvig Jenning and stylist Rosa-Safiah Connell capture the spirit of the Compton Cowboy ...together. Rosa-Safia: What’s the history of horses in your family, and your community at large—and how did it lead to Compton Cowboys? “It’s a rigged... by Document Journal Above the Fold ‘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.... by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold The modern German fairytales of Christian Petzold ...I [haven’t had] an idea for the third element—I can’t do anything with air, I have no ideas for air—so I started a new trilogy.... by Erik Morse Above the Fold ‘Tree & Serpent’ strikes a balance between the sacred and the secular ...the lush sacrality of Buddhist art and examining its significance to the temporal world. Many of the stupa fragments display singular, isolated scenes of worship:... by Yasmeen Khan Above the Fold The rebirth of the long-maligned tramp stamp ...cheetah-print stars; eights, dollar signs, and commas forming the outline of a heart, then dissipating the way an error message swarms a computer screen; or... by Olivia Treynor Above the Fold Van Cleef & Arpels builds upon a century-long love affair with dance ...whether recent or older, have one thing in common: They have enriched, and continue to renew, the choreographic vocabulary. This year’s festival selection focuses on... by Morgan Becker
Above the Fold Bookmarked: Everything the Document editors watched, read, ate, bought, and listened to in August ...to the big screen, with his latest film Passages. I was able to catch a screening on my final day of summer vacation. It was... by Document Editors
Above the Fold Claire A. Nivola’s ‘The House in the Country’ reckons with the past, and leaves it behind ...Oh, yeah, I knew Jackson Pollock, their jaws would drop and stars would come into their eyes,” Nivola recalls. “This is our celebrity culture: It... by Yasmeen Khan
Above the Fold Digging in the crates with Chicago’s Mike Dunn Ever since 1990, the year Mike Dunn debuted Free Your Mind, he’s stayed a fixture in Chicago’s music scene. More specifically, the DJ-producer pioneered hip-house,... by Morgan Becker
Above the Fold Staying true to FFORME ...embracing the unfussy while maintaining an air of deliberate aesthetic intention. The creative process itself is a testament to this approach, underpinned by the old-school... by Divya Bala
Above the Fold Daytripping: Big Gay Summer ...play. There’s always the club and the rave, but it’s good to be outdoors, in the sun, for something other than a protest or a... by McKenzie Wark
Above the Fold For the love of a good doll ...33 moveable parts, including a complex shoulder joint that Setrova herself invented, and is constantly, obsessively improving upon. This mad engineer, who started modeling at... by Shanti Escalante-De Mattei
Above the Fold On ‘Dystopia Girl’, Harmony plays dress-up ...EP Dystopia Girl, looks like a Parade advertisement on acid. The hot girl furries wave their hands in the air as Harmony, adorned in hot... by Yasmeen Khan
Above the Fold ‘Dear Jean Pierre’ is a portrait of a young man on fire ...violence induced by the bourgeois. Situated within the apex of the AIDS epidemic and shattered post-Reaganism, Wojnarowicz scales rage into poetry, rather than submitting to... by Erin Ikeuchi
Above the Fold ‘Bottoms’ flips the script on the teen sex comedy These days, the horny comedies of yesteryear are hard to come by. You know what I’m talking about: raunchy teen sex movies about coming-of-age, or... by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold AI art can’t be copyrighted, according to a federal judge ...a claim against Meta and OpenAI for training generative models on her writing in July, to the group of artists suing Stability AI for appropriating... by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold Amelia Winger-Bearskin renders climate optimism with technology ...come together to address our current ecological crisis. Her work for ANTI•VENOM is a combination of AI-altered photography and experimental video art that further interrogates... by Yasmeen Khan
Above the Fold Friends With Benefits’s dizzying attempt at utopia ...New York’s favorite downtown flaneur Dean Kissick. “The festival was based on a tantalizing premise: bringing together “𝓪𝓵𝓵 𝓸𝓯 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓼𝓺𝓾𝓪𝓭𝓼 of the new internet”... by Michelle Lhooq
Above the Fold ‘An Indigenous Present’ is the the bedrock of its own conversation ...even fail in the process of creating something new,” says Gibson of the greater aesthetic aim of An Indigenous Present beyond representation. Like the many... by Maya Kotomori
Above the Fold Laying the line with Róisín Murphy ...In short: I have a complicated relationship with musicians. Having once been one, I feel intimate with them, yet recognize my estrangement. This personal baggage... by Sammy Loren
Above the Fold ‘The Love Invention’ is transportive, loud, spontaneous euphoria ...well. You’re just getting to know someone, how they work. Sometimes it doesn’t work—but when it does, it’s great. It’s about complementing somebody [new], it’s... by Morgan Becker
Above the Fold Excavating the missing girl—or, at least, the idea of her ...narrators. The comparison to a real-time true crime story exhausts itself quickly. What I mean to ask is: Can we imagine the lost slut as... by Olivia Treynor
Above the Fold TikTok’s “mind-reading” algorithm is about to change ...compliance with the Digital Services Act (DSA). This new policy will allow EU users to trade their personalized “For You” page for a chronological feed... by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold Parsing the Willyverse William Ukoh is fixated on freedom. Within the first 15 minutes of our conversation, the Nigerian photographer—now based in Toronto—employs the word 10 times. He... by Josh Greenblatt
Above the Fold A preternatural attraction to cuteness ...entourage, immortalized in perfume and plastic. It’s doubtful that Stefani knew the social impact that would come from “I like the way that you are,... by Maya Kotomori
Above the Fold Motherhood at the end of the world ...contends with in her latest book The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth. In it, Rush meditates on the lure of... by Alex Hodor-Lee
Above the Fold cumgirl8’s “cursed angel” is grade-A, farm-fresh whimsy ...Its competitions are sophisticated, and handled with immense care. The hobby horse makes a cameo in cumgirl8’s “cursed angel” for that disintegration of the boundary... by Megan Hullander
Above the Fold For Robert Roest, snarling dogs aren’t always angry ...injected with significance. The artist’s latest series, Six paintings proving angels are really watching over us, is directly indicative of this approach: Everyday clouds become... by Teddy Duncan Jr.
Above the Fold The coterie of cardistry ...new recruits. Given the community’s discernible desperation to further enlist new members, the prospect of sexual know-how seems an opportune selling point. Despite a temporary... by Megan Hullander
Above the Fold Sunny War is Americana’s brightest star and biggest skeptic ...a testament both to War’s raw talent and to the music industry’s appetite for struggle. While doing press for her new album this past spring,... by Olivia Treynor
Above the Fold Films to hold on to summer ...those sweltering days when you’ll do anything to beat the heat. Taking place on the literal hottest day of the year, Do The Right Thing’s... by Anabel Gullo
Above the Fold 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... by McKenzie Wark
Above the Fold 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... by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold 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... by Diana Ruzova
Above the Fold Remembering Jamie Reid, the creative renegade who forged punk’s visual identity ...Starting in the ’70s, the artist leveraged his anarchist politics to create controversial anti-establishment designs—including cover art and posters for the Sex Pistols, which featured... by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold Aesthetically Incorrect: Inside the Glenn Martens universe ...stand as wearable aesthetic manifestos. Layered, twisted, printed, folded, jagged, crumpled, slanted, oversized: Y/Project products (“of course, you completely can’t get rid of the product”)... by Drew Zeiba
Above the Fold Candy Claws’s playlist for a road trip through the past ...Sound of Ceres—reunited with former bandmate Hank Bertholf at a wedding in Portland. There, they had the idea to produce “Distortion Spear”—their first new song... by Erin Ikeuchi
Above the Fold For Donatien Grau, all roads lead to LA California’s cultural capital is the muse behind ‘De Civitate Angelorum,’ the curator’s new book composed entirely in Latin... by Morgan Becker
Above the Fold Maya Binyam’s ‘Hangman’ is an existential journey ...ourselves behind, no matter where we are. These are some of the questions I encountered while reading Maya Binyam’s new novel Hangman, a fictional story... by Vivien Lee
Above the Fold 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... by Olivia Treynor
Above the Fold Lee Pace contains multitudes ...shoes to walk in.” It’s a painful show to watch, too. Set in 1980s New York at the height of the AIDs epidemic, the play... by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold Strange Ranger reaches for euphoria The band speaks on their latest album, ‘Pure Music,’ the spirituality of performance, and the age-old tradition of art-making... by Maraya Fisher
Above the Fold 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... by Maya Kotomori
Above the Fold 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,... by Morgan Becker
Above the Fold Overheard at Casual Encounterz’s Lower East Side salon Last Thursday, LA-based literary series Casual Encounterz hosted its final New York reading this summer. Founded by writer and producer Sammy Loren, the program aims... by Yasmeen Khan
Above the Fold Daytripping: I put a spell on you ...standing on the sidewalk wondering who I can text when two people come over to offer me unused tickets. I’m really touched by this. Ravers... by McKenzie Wark
Above the Fold 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... by Document Editors
Above the Fold 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... by Olivia Treynor
Above the Fold Racquel Chevremont melds death with decadence With her first commercial exhibition This Too Shall Pass, curator Racquel Chevremont turns the gallery into a greenhouse. Fluorescent flowers line the white walls of... by Yasmeen Khan
Above the Fold 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... by Erin Ikeuchi
Fashion Portfolio Photographer Hedvig Jenning and stylist Rosa-Safiah Connell capture the spirit of the Compton Cowboy ...together. Rosa-Safia: What’s the history of horses in your family, and your community at large—and how did it lead to Compton Cowboys? “It’s a rigged... by Document Journal
Above the Fold ‘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.... by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold The modern German fairytales of Christian Petzold ...I [haven’t had] an idea for the third element—I can’t do anything with air, I have no ideas for air—so I started a new trilogy.... by Erik Morse
Above the Fold ‘Tree & Serpent’ strikes a balance between the sacred and the secular ...the lush sacrality of Buddhist art and examining its significance to the temporal world. Many of the stupa fragments display singular, isolated scenes of worship:... by Yasmeen Khan
Above the Fold The rebirth of the long-maligned tramp stamp ...cheetah-print stars; eights, dollar signs, and commas forming the outline of a heart, then dissipating the way an error message swarms a computer screen; or... by Olivia Treynor
Above the Fold Van Cleef & Arpels builds upon a century-long love affair with dance ...whether recent or older, have one thing in common: They have enriched, and continue to renew, the choreographic vocabulary. This year’s festival selection focuses on... by Morgan Becker