Why the Moon should operate on a ‘Hotel California’ principle
‘You can check out but you can't leave.’ Critic and sociologist Steve Fuller makes the case in this installment of Document's imagining of lunar life...
What will we drive on the moon? Lexus shows Document the future
For Document Fall/Winter 2019, we called upon culture's brightest minds to envision lunar life. Here are Lexus's seven proposals for luxury space travel.
RIP, Opening Ceremony: designers, DJs, and Club Kids remember the store that was more like a family
“In the new millennium, the city submerged into a cultural blackout period...Opening Ceremony offered an anchoring beam of light.” Walt Cassidy, Natasha Stagg, and more...
‘The L Word’ is back, and less relevant than ever
10 years after the problematic and beloved original, ‘The L Word: Generation Q’ still can't articulate cohesive queer stories. Matilda Douglas-Henry tell us why.
Behind the renaissance of Hollywood’s Sunset Strip
With his latest hotel, Ian Schrager revives LA's iconic after-dark playground.
Colette’s Sarah Andelman and i-D founders Terry and Tricia Jones were influencers before it was a job
The effortlessly cool trio reflect on curation, team-building, and 40 years of 'i-D' in Document's Fall/Winter 2019 issue.
Y2K, 20 years later: Document’s contributors recall the armageddon that never was
Michele Saunders, The Rapture’s Luke Jenner, and more recall the parties, anxieties, and lessons learned on the eve of the new millennium.
The hysteria-inducing, swashbuckling adventurers behind Louis Vuitton’s most well-traveled trunks
From Douglas Fairbanks, the eccentric, old Hollywood celebrity to Casanova orchestra conductor Leopold Stokowski, discover whirlwind lives of the original Louis Vuitton carriers.
Why museums are on the front lines of discovering the boundaries between semantics and substantive change
The politics of language is affecting art institutions, from honoring Ancient Roman same-sex relationships to reckoning with an imperialist legacy.
‘Influencing is heading into the void’: Natasha Stagg and Kate Durbin on the future of social media
Following the release of ‘Sleeveless,’ author Natasha Stagg joins Kate Durbin to discuss the Kardashians’ quest for immortality, ‘it girls’, and maintaining identity in the...
My uncanny experience reading Tegan & Sara’s queer coming-of-age memoir
‘High School’ inspires Matilda Douglas-Henry to meditate on her own memories of sleepovers, secret love letters, and the agonizing weight of queer desires.
Katya Bankowsky and Michèle Lamy wage a boxing ‘Battle Royale’ in the Bronx
The director of ‘Shadow Boxers’ speaks about documenting the violent beauty of boxing in her films. ‘I wanted to make a movie about a female...
A photographer’s 18-year quest to uncover Spiritualism’s radical feminist history
Shannon Taggart and Pam Grossman, host of ‘The Witch Wave’ podcast, discusses the egalitarian spirit of occult practices from around the world.
Dive into the waters of ‘Wet: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing’
We revisit the oddball ’70s magazine, which counted Debbie Harry and Mick Jagger among its cover stars, for Document Fall/Winter 2019
Peter Berlin, the original thirst trap king, revisits his erotic visual diary
The king-sized son of nobility's hot, spontaneous self-portraits are collected in the upcoming book ‘Peter Berlin: Icon, Artist, Photosexual.’
Roxane Gay, Gloria Allred, and Siri Hustvedt envision the law rewritten by women
The women discuss the 2020 candidates, reproductive freedom, sci-fi matriarchies, and the power of female anger for Document's Fall/Winter 2019 issue.
Danny Bowien, the mastermind behind Mission Chinese, reveals the secret sauce for a pop punk dinner party
The chef discusses the origins of his band NARX, late night meals at Denny’s, and his people-pleasing tendencies.
Brendan Fernandes reinterprets Isamu Noguchi and Martha Graham’s ‘strange beauty’
The Kenyan-born artist and choreographer on 'Contract and Release,' the performance he choreographed for The Noguchi Museum.
Maison Kitsuné brings Parisian luxury and Japanese minimalism to their first NYC café
After establishing their fashion line and record label, founders Gildas Loaëc and Masaya Kuroki set their sights on hospitality.
The fall of the Berlin Wall: a visual timeline
30 years later, experience the moments where everything changed, through the lenses of photographers on the ground.
What it’s actually like to own a marijuana dispensary as a woman of color in Colorado
“People think that dispensary owners are just rolling in dough, and that is just not the case.” A window into a broken, out-moded system with...
‘New York Club Kids’: Waltpaper’s dazzling ode to America’s first true influencers
Inside the iconic ’90s subculture with one of its founding members, who talks visual identity, self-branding, and passing the torch to Gen-Z.
Remembering the fall of the Berlin Wall, 30 years later
Peaches, Liz Johnson Artur, the infamous Berghain bouncer Sven Marquardt, and others share their memories of an international turning point in Document's F/W 2019 issue.
6 real-life geniuses wear Moncler Genius
Document talks to six thinkers and creators across food, art, design, and tech about redefining how we experience the world.
The radical feminist sex worker who photographed her clients at their most grotesque
Cammie Toloui takes us behind the Private Pleasures curtain at Lusty Lady Theater, a worker-owned strip club where men were made the objects of intrigue.
Fiddles on full blast, and not a drop of booze in sight: a weekend at Knothead Jamboree square dance
Josh Ethan Johnson photographs the wholesome revelry of a fading tradition.
Daniel Arnold, New York’s best-loved street photographer, takes us on a beautiful journey into his ‘crazy brain’
The writer-turned-photographer on his first solo show and why he sees the streets of New York as a perpetually exciting sandwich platter
Why do curators still equate the ‘queer experience’ with pain?
Suffering for our sexuality—In contemporary art, being queer looks authentic if it hurts
How Floating Points, producer and neuroscientist, made the perfect soundtrack for our existing chaos
Sam Shepherd discusses the unhinged, five-week process of creating 'Crush,' his most club-ready album yet
King Princess and Mj Rodriguez on the self-actualizing power of inventing a new persona
‘Queer people are the reason we have fashion’—the singer and 'Pose' star get real about giving credit, being crowned 'queer icons', and serving a greater...
‘For the skaters, by the skaters’: London’s roller skating scene is more like a family
Mototake Makishima takes Document into the rink at Fix8, with the roller skating community putting the culture first
Easy, breezy, beautiful: Sara Cwynar’s ’Covergirl’ and the political economy of color
The 16mm short film investigates the relationship between color, cosmetics, and social capital.
Damson Idris and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje bring Britain’s dark racial history to light—and discover masculinity’s hopeful future
In 'Farming,' Idris plays a teenage Akinnuoye-Agbaje as he seeks empowerment through joining his neighborhood skinhead gang
500 years, 400 artists, and 54 countries: ‘Great Women Artists’ is the most extensive collection of female created art yet
Ocean's 8 of the art world: Ghada Amer, Sharon Hayes, Deana Lawson, and Martha Rosler took down the tired ‘female artist’ narrative at The Met...
Document Journal launches its 15th print issue for Fall/Winter 2019
“What I’m interested in…is the possibility, as our protest showed, that you can take 5,000 people and change the course of history.” — Extinction Rebellion...
Cristina Mittermeier on the incredible power of images in the fight to save our planet
Tina Brown’s Women in the World Summit teamed up with Prada to spotlight the crucial work of conservation photography.
Lanvin lets loose at Bushwick’s House of Yes
On Thursday night, the brand celebrated its new Soho storefront with Patrick Church, Richie Shazam, and Kim Ann Foxman. See all the evidence from the...
Watch: a strip club where Prada-clad dancers don’t need your dollars
Smoke, sex, and... sustainable energy investments? Lucian Clifforth's short film imagines the strip club of your fever dreams.
Party polaroids of Tyga, Pat Tracey, and Kelsey Lu’s blue eyebrows at the Lanvin Soho opening
Experience the christening of the brand's latest, mirror-filled New York home.
Hélène Selam Kleih on the birth of ‘HIM + HIS’ and the importance of a communal approach to mental health
The artist's multimedia anthology exposes the disparities that still exist in the mental health conversation, particularly in regards to men of color.
This radical psychology album is the sleeper hit of 2019
Noam Chomsky and Nadya Tolokonnikova hop on Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian's 'I Am (Not) a Monster,' an album—and documentary—inspired by the teachings of Hannah Arendt.
What it’s like to earn a Master’s degree in the basement of an Amsterdam nightclub
Dr. Nelly Ben Hayoun's University of the Underground offers a Master's in the Design of Experiences. After the program's first two chaotic years, Ben Hayoun...
‘Together Alone’: A model-turned-filmmaker’s personal journey behind the BS façade of ‘perfection’
Dorith Mous turned a paralyzing mental health scare into a powerful essay and short film series aimed at destigmatizing mental health.
Meet the fierce Texan who helped Dolly Parton and Stephen Tyler become fashion icons
Costume designer Antoinette 'Tony' Sales remembers trading accessories with Freddie Mercury, and the speed-fueled all-nighters spent sewing at the Gramercy Hotel.
Chula the clown’s hysterical path to self-discovery
The Mexico City-based performer believes clowning can address very philosophical questions.
Feathers, glitter, White Castle: Bushwig through the eyes of four drag queens and a pop star
Document dispensed nine disposable cameras to eight extremely generous queens and Slayyyter, a pop star who performed at the annual drag festival. Shockingly(!), only four...
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.
A brief history of protest and counterculture at Tompkins Square Park
Almost 30 years after the Tompkins Square Riot, a new protest headed by skaters preserves the sanctity of a downtown safe haven.
Gia Coppola and Kelsey Lu turn literary works into art
“You are unlocking a secret garden." A new exhibition in Los Angeles investigates notions of authorship, identity, and inspiration.
