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Art

Rapper Killer Mike is the newest board member of Atlanta’s High Museum

The rapper and social activist is one of three fresh faces shaking things up at the High Museum of Art.

Art

Nudists flock the Palais de Tokyo

One of Paris’s most prestigious contemporary art collections opened its doors for the first time to a very marginalized group of culture lovers.

Fashion

Do something different: Telfar and FAKA bring fashion and music to the Serpentine Pavilion

South African performance art duo FAKA unleashed a soulful performance at Serpentine Galleries in Telfar's spring 2019 collection.

Environment

Science attempts to explain why the rich and powerful often behave like swine

Cheating, stealing, lying, and environmental disrespect are habits shared most exclusively to the wealthiest social groups, according to new research.

Culture

The UK’s visa problems are crippling the country’s cultural scene

Tightening immigration restrictions for artists seeking to enter the UK are affecting racial and religious minorities.

Art

The photographer who made the biggest names of the 20th century beautiful

Portraits of Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, and Emperor Charles I of Austria taken by Dora Kallmus, or d’Ora, are the subject of an exhibition at...

News

Vegans be wary: A plant-based diet won’t be viable in the future

Researchers from six American universities discovered that a future of living solely off the land isn’t the most efficient way of farming.

Art

Belgium fights back against Facebook’s problem with Old Master nudes

The Flemish Tourism Board created a video in response to Facebook censoring nude works by Paul Rubens from the Maison de Rubens in Antwerp.

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The New Vanguard

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

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...

Lucie Khahoutian

Lucie Khahoutian contrasts the human form with the natural landscape in this dreamy yet lucid sequence of images. The collage-style shoot creates playful encounters between...

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At Large

Essays and Exposés

Literature

Author Chris Kraus interrogates social practice in her upcoming book of the same name

Chris Kraus makes radical proposals for how art can be read through context and circumstances in Social Practice

by Emily Wells

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

Literature

Ottessa Moshfegh gives sleeping it off a try, for once

Murder, booze, and sex have been just some of the novelist's go-tos in the past. Now, the dissolution of her latest book takes its inspiration...

by Philip Watts

Fashion

The next generation of designers determined to make sustainability a fashion reality

Document and graduating students from Parsons School of Design question the fashion industry’s model of excess in this sustainable editorial.

by Shawn Lakin

Film

David Lynch still keeps his head

Piecing together the fragments of the director's infamously opaque creative process with his new memoir, 'Room to Dream.'

by Judy Berman

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Fashion Portfolios

Fashion

Hollow Gold

Photographer Andrew Jacobs and stylist Herin Choi investigate the symbiotic relationship between body and garment by foregrounding brief, but revealing, moments of uninhibited movement.

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Fashion Portfolio

Shape and form

Sarah Richardson and Johnny Dufort in collaboration with Burberry for

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Fashion Portfolio

Balancing act

Can layering become an art form? Photographer Peter Carter and

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Fashion Portfolio

Document 10 by Brianna Capozzi and Marie Chaix

The photographer and stylist team up for this cheeky, ethereal

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Conversations

Casual Encounters with Remarkable Minds

Art

Illustrator Eri Wakiyama and jewelry designer Yoon Skype about how creativity can’t be taught

The artists talk navigating social media, hyphenated identity, and self-promotion for Document's Fall/Winter 2015 issue.

by Blake Abbie

Vaginal Davis skypes with artist Bjarne Melgaard about toe sucking, Xerox parties, and her many personas

From Berlin, to Bowie, to sexual frustration, the artists discuss the experiences which fuel their creative projects for Document's Fall/Winter 2015 issue.

by Nick Vogelson

Detroit artists Jova Lynne and Mario Moore question the class and racial complexities of leisure

Megan Wray Schertler spoke to Jova Lynne and Mario Moore during Detroit Art Week.

by Megan Wray Schertler

Frédéric Sanchez and Laurie Anderson discuss the relationship between image and sound

Sound designer Frédéric Sanchez and multimedia artist Laurie Anderson discuss the influence of memories, the relationship between image and sound, and Anderson’s new film, “Heart...

by Blake Abbie

Genesis P-Orridge on a life spent transgressing one’s self

The performer and Throbbing Gristle co-founder discusses love, violence, and making life a work of art with gallerist Lia Gangitano for Document's Spring/Summer 2017 issue.

by Ashley Simpson

Charlotte Rampling, a Fox, and a Plate

Writer Anthony Haden-Guest speaks to the actress about her forays in painting, the marriage between photography and performance, and the intoxicating energy of 1960s London...

by Anthony Haden-Guest

Massimo Giorgetti and Maurizio Cattelan look back at who they once were

The Milanese designer behind MSGM sits down with his close friend, the provocateur behind 'Toilet Paper,' to recall the origin of their long-running collaboration, as...

by Joshua Glass

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Visual Reportage and Artist Portfolios

News

“It’s like a blood bath”: Inside the student protests rattling Bangladesh

Document's New Vanguard Special Reportage winner Tahia Farhin Haque reports from the front lines of the student protests in Dhaka.

by Caroline Christie

In celebration of summer holidays, Document 12 contributors bring us to their favorite places

Jil Sanders's Lucie Meier embarks on a journey to the mountains of Zermatt, while coder Fereshteh Forough travels to her favorite park in Afghanistan.

by Vetle Egeland

Documenting the endless appetites of ‘starving artists’

'FOOD SEX ART,' which opens at the Ryan Lee Gallery this week, dispels the idea of artistic penury with a survey of artistic indulgence from...

by Clara Malley

A new cross-cultural book series will help you ‘unlearn’ the tired narratives on Asian identity

Volume One of FAR-NEAR approaches the cultural complications of Asian identity with artworks free from the pressures of place, expectation and stereotype.

by Sharifa Morris

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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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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.

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