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News

Technology is tracing your every move

Devices are measuring your every move, and with all our usage, they can paint a picture of our daily lives.

Art

Liu Ye’s whimsical paintings take over Prada Rong Zhai in Shanghai

Storytelling features 30 paintings by Chinese artist Liu Ye at the Prada-restored mansion Rong Zhai in Shanghai.

Fashion

Rodarte becomes the first fashion label exhibited at the National Museum of Women in the Arts

A 13-year survey of the intricate work of Kate and Laura Mulleavy—the sisters behind Rodarte—is on view at NMWA in Washington, D.C. through February 10.

Art

Raf Simons, George Condo, and more collaborate on Anthony Roth Costanzo’s new operatic installation

Anthony Roth Costanzo teamed up with an all-star creative team that includes Cecilia Dean, James Kaliardos, Tilda Swinton, Ryan McNamara, and more on his latest...

News

The secret to a long life is lifestyle, not genetics

A study reveals that people who live longer are usually the product of parents who lived similar healthier lifestyles.

Art

Katharina Grosse takes us inside her first solo show in China

Katharina Grosse: Mumbling Mud looks at new frontiers in painting through a Chinese lens, and is on view at K11 in Shanghai through February 24,...

News

Why women lie less

A new study reports that women find it harder to lie, whereas men tend to stretch the truth more across the board.

Music

They ain’t nuthing ta f’ wit: Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) turns 25 

Document examines the influence of the legendary Wu-Tang Clan album, Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), 25 years after its debut.

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Announcing the 2018 The New Vanguard winner: Igor Pjörrt

See Igor Pjörrt's full cover story for Document Fall/Winter 2018

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At Large

Essays and Exposés

Politics

Has the internet broken the marketplace of ideas? Rethinking free speech in the Digital Age

Writer Cody Delistraty explores the limitations of free speech absolution in the era of social media for Document's Fall/Winter 2018 issue.

by Cody Delistraty

Denham Fouts: The most expensive male sex worker in the world

So-called by novelist Christopher Isherwood, Denham Fouts was pursued by a Greek king, a German baron, a British viscount, and many, many more. Arthur Vanderbilt...

by Arthur Vanderbilt

Literature

A look back at Gore Vidal’s “sexual paradise”

Was Gore Vidal’s objection to being defined as gay intellectual—“post-gay” before his time?—or was it personal, rooted in the sexual mores of a different generation?

by Tim Teeman

Music

Empress Of carves out a kingdom

Empress Of singer Lorely Rodriguez talks about her insistence on living through empathy and her DIY origins in Los Angeles.

by Fiona Duncan

Technology

The complexities of getting off in the age of technological pleasure

Access to sexual pleasure has never been greater than in the present—but has that increased satisfaction?

by Cody Delistraty

Politics

Information overload: When everything is everywhere, how do we understand what’s important?

Political scientist Brendan Nyhan explores where the democratization of information and freedom of choice turn sour for Document's Spring/Summer 2017 issue.

by Brendan Nyhan

Fashion

Fashion Nova on the rise

Document transforms the slinky Instagram clubwear sensation Fashion Nova into an indie punk dream.

by Ann Binlot

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Fashion Portfolios

Miu Miu by Gray Sorrenti and Shawn Lakin

Photographer Gray Sorrenti and Document's US Fashion Editor Shawn Lakin join forces with Miu Miu for Document Fall/Winter 2018. 

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Fashion Portfolio

Steve Lacy, Syd, and Lakeith Stanfield by Ryan McGinley and Virgil Abloh

Photographer Ryan McGinley and designer Virgil Abloh in collaboration for

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Fashion Portfolio

National velvet

Photographer Juliette Cassidy and stylist Rosa-Safiah Connell develop a contemporary

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Fashion Portfolio

The Outsider

Ryan Croxton and Janina Gruber articulate a vision of elevated

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Conversations

Casual Encounters with Remarkable Minds

Actress Mia Goth and dancer David Hallberg uncover hidden symmetries in their artistic practices

In this joint fashion portfolio from Document Fall/Winter 2018 starring the Suspiria actress—photographed by Craig McDean with fashion by Grace Coddington—and conversation with dancer David...

by David Hallberg

Estonian Rapper Tommy Cash tells artist Slava Mogutin about the ideology of escapism

For Document's Fall/Winter 2018 issue, artist and activist Slava Mogutin and Tommy Cash bond over mafia-esque Russian security and explore their differences in political outlook.

by Slava Mogutin

In a system that demands simplicity, Miuccia Prada offers complexity without apology

Document editor-in-chief Nick Vogelson meets with Mrs. Prada to discuss the art of subversion, ditching politics for fashion, and why success isn't the key to...

by Nick Vogelson

Love dolls don’t love you back

Laurie Simmons cast Japanese "Love Dolls" in Connecticut settings. Unlike their sexed-up American sisters, the wholesome fragility makes them all the more insidious. For the...

by Stephen Frailey

New York’s unreciprocated love for Benedetta Barzini

Model Benedetta Barzini answered the curse of her cold Italian dynasty upbringing with radical feminism and a surrogate family composed of Salvador Dalí, Lee Strasberg,...

by Chiara Barzini

In my own fashion: Kembra Pfahler and Rick Owens

Artist and muse to Rick Owens, Kembra Pfahler sits down with the fashion designer to discuss how she resents art with a capital "A."

by Rick Owens

Willem Dafoe takes you inside his fanaticism

Writer and critic John Ortved sits down with the prolific actor to discuss the ritual of performance, falling in love with one's craft, and why...

by John Ortved

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Documented

Visual Reportage and Artist Portfolios

Art

Loie Hollowell’s bodily landscapes

Loie Hollowell's portfolio for Document's Fall/Winter 2018 issue marks a daring departure from the practice of early female abstractionists, reveling in the eroticism and ethereality...

by Andrianna Campbell

The fight of black America, through the lens of Gordon Parks

For Document Fall/Winter 2018, The Gordon Parks Foundation contributed an exclusive portfolio of his photographs from that watershed moment in 1963, accompanied by his own...

by Gordon Parks

Sterling Ruby’s Basin Theology

From his studio in Los Angeles, the artist created an exclusive portfolio—fusing garments with shards exploded in a kiln—for Document Spring/Summer 2014.

by Kevin McGarry

Gentlemen, watch your wallets

John Waters curates and captions a never-before-seen selection of Karlheinz Weinberger images.

by John Waters

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The New Vanguard

Document and Calvin Klein spotlight visionary image makers, with Ford Models, Aperture Foundation, and powered by Swipecast.

Announcing the 2018 The New Vanguard winner: Igor Pjörrt

Document and Calvin Klein are proud to announce Igor Pjörrt as the winner of The New Vanguard, with support from Ford Models and Aperture Foundation,...

Igor Pjörrt

Igor travelled to his home island in Madeira and explored the regional relationship they have with the beach and the countryside. He experiments with the...

Quil Lemons

Quil Lemons travelled to the New York coast for this shoot that sees him capture his model in a setting he describes as “the end...

Ward Roberts

On a rooftop in Sunset Park, Ward Roberts embraces transitory moments of no return—a body in midair or the fleeting, precarious seconds before a looming...

Jan Philipzen

Jan Philipzen invites the viewer to experience an organic and fragmented collection of memories from a road trip through the German countryside. This grunge, 90’s...

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At Large

Empress Of carves out a kingdom

Empress Of singer Lorely Rodriguez talks about her insistence on living through empathy and her DIY origins in Los Angeles.

by Fiona Duncan

At Large

The complexities of getting off in the age of technological pleasure

Access to sexual pleasure has never been greater than in the present—but has that increased satisfaction?

by Cody Delistraty

At Large

Three emerging Latina artists trace the connection to the ‘Radical Women’ before them

As the Brooklyn Museum shines a long overdue light on two decades of conceptual works by pioneering Latina artists, a trio of emerging New York...

by Dalya Benor

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.

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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.

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