Adrift in America
As hyper-media and violence create a dysphoric present, one writer stops to survey our collective unmooring.
Hobby Lobby can’t stop smuggling Mesopotamian artifacts
The Justice Department has requested another 245 artifacts smuggled out of Iraq
The Dutch Fashion Police are scanning the streets for Gucci and Rolex
Police in Rotterdam will soon be on the hunt for “Big Rolexes" and "Gucci jackets"
The #resistance might be great for your career says study
Civic engagement is, unsurprisingly, a good thing for individuals
New York City reviews its “symbols of hate,” removes only one
The statue of Dr. J. Marion Sims will be relocated to Green-Wood Cemetery
CVS bans the airbrush on its beauty products
And introduces the "beauty mark" for brands that retouch
The NYPD is Attempting to Obtain the ‘Entire Digital History’ of a Minor
The department has requested contacts, e-mails, history and other digital documentation
If science fiction reflects our innermost fears, how do we see ourselves today?
Noah Berlatsky explores the parallels between cultural fear and the work of science fiction
Once bulldozed by stereotypes, crossplay is cosplay’s gender revolution
How do you turn what was once demonized into a source of pride and exploration? Matt Baume writes on cosplay's gender defying evolution
Understanding anarchy from ancient Athens to the dark web
If Anarchism has always existed, might it just be a base state of human existence?
Oxford’s Dr. Anders Sandberg Combats A.I.’s Threat to Humanity with His Whiteboard
Dr. Anders Sanberg is looking to save humanity from extinction from an unlikely instigator.
Japanese internment camp survivors reflect on America’s dark past 75 years later
A forgotten and hidden stain on American history, Japanese internment camps were yet another point of damage done to minorities in the U.S.
Burberry’s Christopher Bailey Finds Balance in a Time of Social and Political Uncertainty
As the creative director-turned-C.E.O. of Burberry prepares to step back into the atelier full-time, he reflects on a monumental year of change.
Objects Without Shadows
One of the most historically significant regions in the world is currently being pillaged.
Fallen From Grace, An Exclusive Look at Item Idem’s “NUII”
Two-and-a-half minutes before ultimate global catastrophe, the artist's new short film is a desert wonder that champions against capitalism and President Donald Trump.
DeRay Mckesson and Bevy Smith On Social Championship and Black Identity
From Document No. 9, the activist and pop cultural arbiter discuss public service and life's calling.
Dear Donald, an Assembled Response
A group of artists under the moniker Same Subject New Object in New York gathered in response to President-elect Donald Trump’s operation of social injustice.
Bjarne Melgaard and Glenn O’Brien on Why Art Should Alienate
To celebrate the release of Melgaard's self-titled monograph, Document presents a conversation between the artist and journalist Glenn O'Brien.
A Warning to the World from Antony Micallef
The artist's latest project "Trump Fags," a visual double entente featuring the United States's most malign White House hopeful, feels so decisively pivotal to us...
Douglas Crimp and Malik Gaines on Queer Liberation and the Decline of Radicalism
The cultural critic and artist discuss Crimp's new memoir "Before Pictures" in issue no. 9 of Document.
Singer Anohni tackles speaking out, oppression, and subversion with composer Nico Muhly
The musical artists talk composition, American civic complicity, and "joyful expressions of rage."
Super teens Jack Andraka and Adora Svitak talk science fairs, educational reform, and Kim Kardashian
Super teens Jack Andraka and Adora Svitak chat about growing up in the internet spotlight, what confuses them, and—like any teen—Kim Kardashian West.
Using written language, Jenny Holzer asks us to question mass media portrayals of the ‘war on terror’
The artist meditates on biased media, state-sanctioned torture, and government censorship in this Document exclusive portfolio from the Fall/Winter 2015 issue.
