Document Journal

Above The Fold

Essential Daily Briefings

Art

African-American artists shatter art world expectations at auction

Last week's record-breaking sale of Kerry James Marshall's 'Past Times' at Sotheby's suggest a long-overdue mainstreaming of the black contemporary art.

Fashion

Byredo’s Ben Gorham on making ‘Elevator Music’ with Virgil Abloh

The forward-thinking perfumer’s latest collaboration with the Off-White founder is anything but forgettable.

Music

Your favorite pop song might be depressed

After analyzing more than 500,000 pop songs, researchers have found that the most popular music has become a total bummer in the last 30 years.

Culture

Tbilisi’s clubgoers protest for open culture despite strict drug laws and white nationalists

Thousands of Georgian techno fans gathered in downtown Tbilisi this week to protest armed crackdowns on two of city’s most vibrant nightclubs.

Culture

Another reminder that marijuana arrests in NYC are still (extremely) racially biased

Across the city, black and hispanic people are arrested for low-level marijuana offenses at a rate eight times higher than white people according to a...

Architecture

The dissident art of ‘cruising’ gets a pavilion at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale

Champagne and poppers will be served at the May 24th opening of Spazio Punch's "Cruising Pavilion."

Film

Is a film festival sponsored by the Israeli government an incident of ‘art-washing?’

Document talks with a London-based filmmaker and activist, who is one of 30 industry professionals calling for the boycott of The London Israel Film and...

Fashion

Christopher Kane’s propensity for playful subversion lands at your feet

Known for collaborations with Alexander McQueen and Vivienne Westwood, The Rug Company now takes on Christopher Kane’s signature prints.

More Above The Fold

Announcing The New Vanguard photography prize

Document, in partnership with Calvin Klein, inaugurates The New Vanguard, spotlighting image makers on the front lines of art and fashion, with support from Ford...

by Document Journal

At Large

Essays and Exposés

Film

Visions of Vigilantism

How two recent films, Eli Roth's remake of 'Death Wish' and the Safdie Brother's 'Good Time,' update a less-spoken promise of the American dream: instant...

by Jonathon Sturgeon

Photography

If you haven’t a sense of humor, don’t speak to Geoff Dyer. Or read his books.

If you do, the novelist's latest, a literary meditation on photographer Garry Winogrand, is the kind of cheeky, yet critical, approach to photography we've long...

by Emily Wells

Literature

In ‘Blue Self-Portrait’ Noémi Lefebvre created a space to breathe

Document talks with the French author about her breakthrough novel, Blue Self-Portrait, out in the U.S. this month.

by Cody Delistraty

Fashion

Automated for the people

What does the rise of workwear in fashion say about our own ideas about labor in the age of automation and the Amazon warehouse?

by Mindy Meissen

Fashion

Lucie and Luke Meier are in pursuit of minimalism’s soul

The creative directors of Jil Sander have brought their fusion of elite and cult style to the brand's minimalist halls.

by Anders Christian Madsen

Art

Aggregators of anxiety

Artist Jon Rafman captures the anxiety unleashed by the aggregations of Russian trolls and Cambridge Analytica.

by Barrett White

The end of fur as we know it?

As an increasing number of designers end their relationship with fur, we ask if the split is permanent.

by Divya Bala

More At Large

Fashion Portfolios

Fashion

Mario Sorrenti and Sarah Richardson

Photographer Mario Sorrenti and Document's Sarah Richardson in collaboration for the Spring / Summer 2018 issue.

by Document Journal

Fashion Portfolio

Proof of existence

Through sparse black and white compositions, photographer Zhi Wei and

by Document Journal

Fashion Portfolio

Willy Vanderperre and Olivier Rizzo

Photographer Willy Vanderperre and contributing fashion editor Olivier Rizzo in

by Document Journal

Fashion Portfolio

Everything but the kitchen sink

Photographer Alex Lockett and stylist Ai Kamoshita explore the interrelated

by Document Journal

More Fashion Portfolios

Conversations

Casual Encounters with Remarkable Minds

Film

Luca Guadagnino has conquered love, now he hopes to scare the world

The Italian director behind last year's most moving love story discusses his 'deeply personal' remake of Italian-horror classic 'Suspiria,' set to be released this September,...

by Nathan Taylor Pemberton

If knowledge is power, then coders like Fereshteh Forough and Barbara Liskov will inherit the earth

Two women helping to lead the tech sector towards greater diversity and inclusion discuss the power of code to advance women from America to Afghanistan.

by Daisy Prince

Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asia Kate Dillon on the fine art of creative survival

The co-founder of Black Lives Matter sits down with the 'Billions' actor to discuss the responsibilities of artistry and the present-day struggle over language.

by Megan Wray Schertler

The directors of ‘McQueen’ on portraying the designer’s life beyond the tabloids and tell-alls

Filmmakers Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui refused to whitewash the tumult and glory of the late designer's life in their documentary co-effort. It premiered, this...

by Shawn Lakin

Ermenegildo Zegna’s artistic director, Alessandro Sartori, finds inspiration close to home

Ermenegildo Zegna’s artistic director—who can trace his heritage to the region responsible for the existence of luxury menswear—discusses the brand's newfound approach to sustainable innovation...

by Mark Smith

Meet the women of Rome’s first all-female motorcycle club

Document speaks with the four members of The Litas, featured in a Bulgari-produced documentary premiering this week at the Tribeca Film Festival.

by David Plaisant

For Chloé’s creative director, Natacha Ramsay-Levi, inspiration springs from routine

After coming off of a triumphant second season leading the house Chloé, the designer sets her faith in the power of habit.

by Megan Wray Schertler

More Conversations

Documented

Visual Reportage and Artist Portfolios

Architecture

Katharina Grosse rejects your idea that painting is archaic

Known for work that takes place on a captivating scale, the painter discusses a technique that operates far beyond the realm of one dimension for...

by Drew Sawyer

In Furs by Lorna Simpson

In this cover story from our Spring/Summer 2018 issue, an exclusive look at an original portfolio of work by Lorna Simpson for Document.

by Daniella Rose King

The endless drawings of Joan Jonas

Never before published drawings by Joan Jonas that were inspired by a “Female Devouring Ghost” perched on the shore between life and death.

by Gillian Young

Rineke Dijkstra and capturing the awkward blooms of youth

With The Louisiana Book, the Dutch photographer captures the essence of youth untamed and in the wild.

by Phil Backes

More Documented

Timeless ideas,
timely delivery

Updated daily, in your inbox bi-weekly. Five years of Document, sold out in print, full archive online now. Independent culture, art, fashion, and ideas.

Best Of

Fashion Portfolio

Backstage as Tbilisi’s Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week comes into its magnificent own

Photographer Ryan Koopmans captured the playful colors and fearless combinations that have come to define Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Tbilisi as a singular European spectacle.

by Document Journal

Conversations

Meet the women of Rome’s first all-female motorcycle club

Document speaks with the four members of The Litas, featured in a Bulgari-produced documentary premiering this week at the Tribeca Film Festival.

by David Plaisant

Documented

The endless drawings of Joan Jonas

Never before published drawings by Joan Jonas that were inspired by a “Female Devouring Ghost” perched on the shore between life and death.

by Gillian Young

Fashion Portfolio

Everything but the kitchen sink

Photographer Alex Lockett and stylist Ai Kamoshita explore the interrelated points of domesticity.

by Document Journal

Fashion Portfolio

Hedi Slimane and Sarah Richardson

Photographer Hedi Slimane and Document's Fashion Director Sarah Richardson in collaboration for the Spring / Summer 2018 issue.

by Document Journal

At Large

Amen Dunes makes peace with freedom

On ‘Freedom’, his fifth record as Amen Dunes, Damon McMahon makes post-modern soul music that stares down the borderless terrain of the self.

by Nathan Taylor Pemberton

Conversations

Composers Steve Reich and Nico Muhly on the music’s ecstatic expressions

The experimental composers discuss the musical ideas that, for them, burn more brightly than the rest.

by Ashley Simpson