Closed stalls and open doors in Alessandro Michele’s Valentino
For Fall/Winter 2025, the maximalist designer probes community and privacy with a panoptic showcase
This Valentines Day, Kerosene Jones says “FUCK YOU” to romance
From flesh-eating nuns to cosmic mummy dick: Inside a radical queer artist's pilgrimage through NYC's occult performances and a rain-soaked Chelsea Hotel orgy
The sound of Halloween, according to The Dare
The Brooklyn-based DJ embraces the delirium of the holiday in this 12-song playlist for Document
Within the glitz of Hollywood Hills, Leyla Blue is finding her voice
In championing art as therapy, the Gen Z musician provides a peek into the metaphorical bedroom of an uncertain generation
Ladyfag takes the underground rave scene to greater heights with LadyLand, a music festival celebrating queerness
“If you come to Ladyland, I want you to leave feeling like you had the time of your life.”
Racquel Chevremont and Mickalene Thomas curate a show that subverts tradition
At Parrish Art Museum, ‘Set It Off’ pulls from an international roster of artists to address themes of sexuality, memory, and identity
Cookie Mueller’s cult classic writings gain a second life in an intimate reissue
‘Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black’ follows the iconic creative on her almost-unbelievable exploits
The risks and rewards of sex tapes—according to the experts, and everyday people who make them
When filming yourself in the bedroom, a lot can go wrong really fast. So how can you ensure your experience stays sexy?
AssangeDAO imagines the social justice potential of online collectives
The community bought an NFT for $53 million, with the aim to fund the WikiLeaks founder’s legal fees
Miles Greenberg is creating spaces to transcend
The Québécois artist joins Document to discuss the Black origins of surrealism, the future of performance, and being a low-key biohacker
Tao Lin’s required reading for going off-grid
Long before the global pandemic necessitated lifestyle changes for millions of Americans, Tao Lin was already seeking solace in the natural world. “The mind is...
Trevor Paglen wants you to stop seeing like a human
The artist on CIA-funded facial recognition technology, images in the post-truth era, and why AI is its own form of politics
Better living through anarchy: Tracking the rise of the temporary autonomous zone
As calls to abolish the police amplify and protest zones evolve into self-governing communities, it’s clear that Americans are fed up with the current system....
King Kumo might be the future’s flyest marine biologist
Meet the 26-year-old, DaBaby-approved dancer, inspired by the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
In a world of injustice, Orion Sun believes boundless love is still possible
The rising R&B star on the power of mass protests, the performativity of social media, and finding strength in making music.
Artists for Humans, the underground initiative leveraging art to protect New York’s most vulnerable
With the help of fellow artists and donors, painter Hannah Beerman has raised upward of $130,000 for pandemic relief
Caroline Calloway is the unlikely antihero of the corona era
Come for the chaos, stay for the charity: the art of spinning personal scandal into media gold
The secret world of images not meant for human eyes
In a new exhibition at Fondazione Prada, Trevor Paglen and Kate Crawford investigate AI’s political underpinnings.
Ondine Viñao’s beautiful, disturbing clown videos exorcise childhood trauma
Pulling inspiration from Bruce Nauman’s iconic “Clown Torture” videos, Viñao’s “Holy Fools” experiments with torture as a form of exposure therapy.
Flatbush Zombies are the hip-hop Santas of NYC
The rap trio brought holiday cheer to Canal Street with their toy-drive that saw all donations and proceeds raised for Camba, a non-profit which connects...
Meet the women leading Latin America’s abortion rights revolution
Document’s Sam Weir spoke to five female activists on the fight for abortion in Argentina and found a common thread between them all: an unwavering...
Young activists take UK government to court over failing to tackle climate change
After research suggests the younger generation will be facing the effects of climate change, activists in the UK are holding the government responsible.
James Welling on his photo ‘1538’
“The challenge is to create something I haven't seen before."
Martine Rose is designing for the ‘dodgy’ man of her dreams, one piece at a time
Ahead of her Spring / Summer 2019 collection, Document met up with the London-born designer to discuss intuition, music, and the unpredictable, flashy, always dodgy,...
Tomas Maier on the ‘raw, simple, and emotional’ works of Donald Judd
We asked the Bottega Veneta creative director about his fascination with the legendary sculptor, whose aluminum works are on display this summer at the Judd...
Amy Arbus on her photo ‘Julio Q’
'In those days, it was so much fun to take pictures of people because they were never suspicious. They were just honored.'
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.
Joel Sternfeld on his photo ‘After A Flash Flood, Rancho Mirage’
'This photo of the flash flood in Rancho Mirage evokes all of the disasters that are going to happen because of extreme weather. I wish...
Joe Gaffney on his photo ‘Sunrise on the Avenue Montaigne’
For Contact Sheet, Document asks a photographer about the unseen story of a frame that defines their work.
Tina Tyrell on her photo ‘Time Will Have Its Fancy’
Every week for Contact Sheet, Document asks a photographer for the unseen story about the frame that has come to define their work.
After the show, Atlein’s Antonin Tron heads straight to the sea
"I find a great sensuality in surfing itself, getting changed in the early morning in the parking lot, putting on the wetsuit and getting ready...
Erika Cavallini always has a very special good luck charm on hand for her shows
Erika Cavallini reveals to Document the simple rituals she follows before any show and the one item she must always have on hand when it...
On Loan: The sublime chaos of Egypt’s unknown surrealist collective, Art et Liberté
As the works of this lesser-known art collective come to the Tate Liverpool this month, Document spoke with the show's curator about the stringent political...
Overheard at the new Barkley L. Hendricks show, Them Changes
“The 1970s. Wow. There was a lot going on. That world doesn’t exist anymore.”
Pieter Hugo on his photo “Portrait #3, Rwanda, 2014”
"I like to think of some of these pictures as little gifts from the universe."
Before any Roksanda show, it’s a cup of tea
Document asks designers about the backstage rituals that make the moments before the first look bearable.
The unfinished business of William Eggleston’s Los Alamos
The photographer's pursuit of American restlessness in Los Alamos is a collection of images suspicious of finality. It opens at The Metropolitan Museum of Art...
The American politics of the radical presidential portrait
Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald's portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama are the latest entries in a visual tradition defining the politics of the present.
Lucid dreaming backstage with Sies Marjan
Sies Marjan and Sander Lak take Document inside of their varicolored fantasy
Andreas Laszlo Konrath on his photo “Untitled (Joe #11, Braces 1)”
Contact Sheet is Document's newest weekly installment on the story behind the images shaping our visual culture.
Tempting fate backstage with Vaquera
The New York label's FW18 extravaganza was equal parts Sin City and Sunday morning.
The Document Agenda: “An approach that is better aware of uncertainty is more reliable”
Uncertainty might help with making better decisions, a Vantablack house is built for the Winter Olympics, those who contemplate the future are better at waiting.
Ryker Allen looks at the upcoming models of New York Fashion Week Men’s
Seeing the new look of the next generation of models at New York Men's Fashion Week.
The Document Agenda: “Time is not at all something that is an immutable truth”
Director Agnes Varda sends the Academy of Motion Pictures a cut-out of her face, the first Britons may have actually been black, and Facebook’s algorithms...
The ‘Soul of a Nation’ comes to a small corner of America’s heartland
The groundbreaking Tate Modern show comes, of all places, to the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Arkansas
The cryptocurrency revolution begins to fray
Is one of the most-hyped advancements in technology beginning to wreak havoc?
Museums are gradually practicing the art of embracing women’s stories
Museums in the UK are removing stereotypical representations of the female form and replacing them with stories of female empowerment
The Vatican is looking to capitalize on Andy Warhol’s closeted Catholicism
A retrospective of the artist's "spiritual works" will be featured in a joint exhibition by the Vatican and The Andy Warhol Museum in 2019
PFW18: Viktor & Rolf’s couture is a meticulous cultural commentary
The Dutch "fashion artists" can't just do style for style's sake
