Caleb Femi’s ‘The Wickedest’ journeys through one night at London’s longest-running house party
In this exclusive excerpt from the writer and filmmaker’s forthcoming poetry collection, the underground shoob scene reveals itself minute by minute
Out late with Document to ring in A New Perspective
Following its event with Performa, Document headed to Jean’s for an afterparty late into the night
Document and Performa celebrate boundary-breaking art together
To coincide with the release of its Fall/Winter 2025 issue, Document hosted the afterparty for the live art biennial’s 20th-anniversary gala
How to throw a party
In this exclusive portfolio from Document’s Fall/Winter 2024–25 issue, NYC’s nightlife leaders share their insights and origins alongside an essay by Geoffrey Mak exploring autonomy...
Sónar by Day, according to curators Antònia Folguera and Ikram Bouloum
Meet the pair responsible for Sónar Festival’s daytime multidisciplinary programming ahead of the annual Barcelona electronic music festival
Club Document: Celebrating SS24 with Erykah Badu, Michèle Lamy, and Editor-in-Chief Nick Vogelson
Inside our Issue 24 launch party featuring hot guests and even hotter DJ sets
Pleasure-seeking: In pursuit of the real
From exclusive sex parties to subversive performances at the Chelsea Hotel, columnist Camille Sojit Pejcha chronicles the search for self-expression in New York’s underground
Daytripping: Dancefloor antagonism
In her bi-weekly column for Document, McKenzie Wark works through the feelings of antagonism for all the other dancers.
Ludovic de Saint Sernin and Document Journal celebrate at the Boom atop The Standard, High Line
Following his NYFW debut, the designer joins his collaborators and muses for an unforgettable night at the iconic Manhattan venue
Sowing the seeds of the underground with Katie Rex and Fecal Matter
The nightlife luminary and design duo join Document to discuss fantasy, fetish, and the liberatory power of the club
Down the rabbit hole at the McKittrick Hotel
The Chelsea performance space put on an immersive Halloween production, inviting guests to ‘unleash the monster within’
Inside the Bed-Stuy mansion hosting New York’s wildest house shows
Document secured a ticket to Porches’s sold-out performance with ‘You Missed It,’ rubbing elbows with only the niche-est Downtown celebrities
Inside ALL DOLLED UP, New York’s first trans-only strip club experience
Curated by Ruby Zarsky and produced by Unter, the pop-up pushed back against the exclusionary policies that prevent trans women from working the pole
Overheard at Cultural Counsel and Wet Paint’s Armory Show soirée
Document took to Jean’s, collecting cocktails, cheek kisses, and art-world gossip
Daytripping: The writer and the rave
In her biweekly column for Document, McKenzie Wark considers noise, information theory, and the text of the party
Daytripping: I put a spell on you
In her biweekly column for Document, McKenzie Wark writes of the bewitching effects of a good DJ set—or really any art
At the Chelsea Hotel, queer subculture continues to thrive
Inside the clandestine parties keeping the creative spirit of the space alive, decades after its illustrious heydey
Inside Document, Feeld, Ludovic de Saint Sernin, and Mia Khalifa’s Pride party
United in championing curiosity and self-expression, the hosts closed out the month’s festivities at the Times Square EDITION
Inside the Jeffries and Jonah Almost’s Outer Heaven soirée
The party kicked off Pride Month, uniting a dynamic crew of creatives under one roof in the Bowery
The queer performers keeping the Chelsea’s subversive legacy alive
Decades after its heyday, the historic hotel serves as a safe haven for burlesque and sideshow artists to perform their most transgressive acts
Daytripping: Living in the gaps of being
In her biweekly column for Document, McKenzie Wark writes about dissonance—in music, at the party, and in one’s own body
ANOHNI and Johanna Constantine invoke art from apocalypse
For Document’s Spring/Summer 2023 issue, Blacklips Performance Cult’s founders look back on their makeshift, allegorical archive
Daytripping: Learning the art of letting go
In her biweekly column for Document, McKenzie Wark writes about a cross-generational spring party and the simple comforts of dance
Bad Words: Missing the Black Party, a pilgrimage site for gay men
The Saint’s legendary annual bacchanal shut down after 40 years, signaling a bittersweet transition in the landscape of queer life
Daytripping: The top 20 nightlife scenes in cinema
In her bi-weekly column for Document, McKenzie Wark lists her favorite instances of on-screen dancing, from the rave in Zion to ’60s sci-fi fantasia
Daytripping: Herding cats
In her bi-weekly column for Document, McKenzie Wark writes about raves in relation to service workers, and how she once got on the wrong side...
Document takes to Montreal, uniting nightlife and fashion with Holt Renfrew Ogilvy
For the second iteration of the 'After Dark' party series, cabaret bar Vol de Nuit set the stage for a night of transition and cultural...
Daytripping: Ghost dance
In her bi-weekly column for Document, McKenzie Wark tells a tale of two boroughs, two generations, and what we’ve lost and found through nightlife
McKenzie Wark on raving and the infrastructure of queer life
The writer meets with Document to discuss her latest book, the low genre of autofiction, and the makings of a good party
BOFFO makes its return to dry land with ‘Group Show: A Retrospective’
On Friday night, an exhibition-themed party brought alumni of the Fire Island residency back together, in the middle of Times Square
Daytripping: Dancing into the folds of time
In her bi-weekly column for Document Journal, McKenzie Wark writes about dancing at Berlin’s Berghain, the world-famous temple of techno
Daytripping: A dance to the music of time
In her biweekly column for Document, McKenzie Wark checks in with an intergenerational Downtown bohemia
Inside Document Journal and LOEWE Perfumes’s Fashion Week soirée
In the Sky Lounge atop New York City’s Virgin Hotel, Editor-in-Chief Nick Vogelson welcomed an array of friends and contributors for a night of revelry
Daytripping: How dancing can make you gay
In her bi-weekly column for Document, McKenzie Wark writes on the interpenetration of queer and straight spaces
Inside Marni and Carhartt WIP’s Campari-flush evening
At Men’s Fashion Week, the unlikely pairing united workwear with florals, and New York with Milan
Overheard at JW Anderson’s Milan Fashion Week afterparty
Between nostalgia, subversion, tomatoes, and gin, Document divulges what friends of the designer were hungry for
Daytripping: The irreplaceable soundtrack to MDMA
In her bi-weekly column for Document, McKenzie Wark writes of the gap between the body and the body’s image of itself
Daytripping: A night at the club, and tears before bedtime
In McKenzie Wark’s bi-weekly column for Document, two trans girls commune above the noise
Daytripping: The collective catharsis of ravespace
In her biweekly column for Document, McKenzie Wark explores the dance floor as an antidote to dysphoria
The Genesis of East Village Drag: An oral history of the Pyramid Club
Performer and hostess Linda Simpson, DJ Dany Johnson, and photographer Andé Whyland look back at a groundbreaking chapter in New York nightlife
Daytripping: A tale of two raves, and finding desire in the spaces between
In her biweekly column for Document, McKenzie Wark explores what we seek on a night out—and how we often find ourselves wanting more
Daytripping: The queer rave fulfills the promise of family that Thanksgiving can’t
In her biweekly column for Document, McKenzie Wark explores the catharsis of Halloween and the minefield of going home for the holidays
Inside Intima, the rave leading Brooklyn’s nightlife renaissance
“Intima means the innermost part of an organ. A party should feel that way, taking something intimate and imagining it as a space for closeness.”
It’s dream or die for Disco Tehran
Modeled off of Iran’s ’70s artistic scene, Arya Ghavamian and Mani Nilchiani’s nightlife project brings community and collective memory to New York City
The intimacy of nightlife, according to its curators
Chapel Bar’s Desta and the iconic model Liya Kebede on how to create a roaring room
The hedonism and kinship of New York disco, through the lens of Bill Bernstein
From Studio 54 to GG’s Barnum Room, the photographer captured the quintessential scenes of the nightlife era
As clubs remain closed, only radical solidarity will save the queer rave scene
Berghain may be too big to fail—but COVID-19 is threatening the survival of experimental nightlife spaces like WHOLE United Queer Festival.
Michele Saunders on the differences between the rhythm of big-city life and small-town pace
As part of Birkenstock’s 1774 collaboration series, Document Journal meets 10 creatives making the Hudson Valley a kingdom of their own. Moving upstate has offered...
Tracey Ryans on trading the glitz and glam of New York for rural Rhinebeck
As part of Birkenstock’s 1774 collaboration series, Document Journal meets 10 creatives making the Hudson Valley a kingdom of their own. Tracey Ryans, the entrepreneur...
