Darryl Bell brought his Midwestern barbecue heritage to Robert Glasper’s The Black Radio Experience music festival
At an on-site lunch event, the chef gave a glimpse into the menu at Stateline Road Smokehouse, his new restaurant blending fine dining perspective with...
The Shoptimist Speaks: Mati Hays of House of Iconica
In the second installment of columnist Maya Kotomori’s interview mini-series, the Brooklyn-based designer talks personal style, fetish, and the poetics of taste in fashion
Inside Pete Rock’s musical dictionary
Ahead of his performance at The Black Radio Experience music festival, the legendary DJ and producer sits down with Document to discuss his love for...
The Shoptimist: Myths, markets, and the business model of hype
For her monthly column, fashion bard Maya Kotomori tells the tale of luxury’s fraught relationship to streetwear from ’90s Supreme to 2010s Odd Future to...
Larry Gus’s ‘Kerkis (Judas Tree)’ is playing games
The musician collaborates with director Matvey Fiks and screenwriter, lyricist, and Yorgos Lanthimos collaborator Efthymis Filippou in this absurdist romp through an Athenian chess club
Best in show: Men’s Spring/Summer 2025 and Women’s Resort Fashion Week—Paris
Document rounds up the top new collections shown this past week in Paris
Best in show: Men’s Spring/Summer 2025 and Women’s Resort Fashion Week—Milan
Document rounds up the top new collections shown this past week in Milan
The Shoptimist: It ain’t the same now
In a Juneteenth special of her monthly column, hotep-in-training Maya Kotomori puts on her Dr. Umar kufi to analyze the commodity fetish of hip-hop
In the experimental play ‘4,000 Dollars,’ the streets of New York City are a fiscal fight club
Document joins playwright and director Georgica Pettus and producer Ashby Bland to discuss the art of numbers, spending money, and language systems
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
Decoding the ‘it’ factor with Abbey Lee
In an exclusive digital interview for Document’s Spring/Summer 2024 issue, the cover star details how she found acting and a new sense of creative fulfillment
Inside the New York Live Arts 2024 gala
Artists were front and center at the institution’s annual Live Ideas fundraising event, centered on the role of creativity in shaping our collective future
Lucila Safdie takes a blogger-era approach to the modern woman
The designer sits down with Document to discuss the films, time periods, and nuanced female characters that inspire her clothing
Bill T. Jones and Hank Willis Thomas reanimate creative freedom
The choreographer and conceptualist challenge the categories and moralities of the artist for Document’s Spring/Summer 2024
Rhizome throws annual gala afterparty in collaboration with NYC-based performance series 29 Speedway
Crushed watermelon, slime, and a visceral puppet show turn the postgame of this year’s fundraising gala into an immersive stage for experimental performance
At Pageant’s second annual gala, experimental performance reigns supreme
This year’s fundraising event for the artist-run space features footlong high heels, whipped cream-spewing bras, and live tattoos
Maya Hawke and Kim Gordon dissect the poetics of commerce
The multidisciplinary artists untangle lyric metaphors and pop cultural myths for Document’s Spring/Summer 2024 issue
The Shoptimist Speaks: In conversation with Christine Alcalay
Columnist Maya Kotomori’s new mini-series of interviews with NYC-local craftspeople begins with a spotlight on the Park Slope designer, discussing her eponymous brand, fashion labor,...
Aïsha Devi lives in the fifth dimension
Ahead of her live performance set at Barcelona’s upcoming Sònar Festival, the Swiss-Nepali artist talks metaphysics, trance states, and her latest album ‘Death Is Home’
Announcing Katharine Zarrella, Document Journal’s Fashion Critic-at-Large
The fashion journalist extraordinaire sits down with Document to discuss the evolution of print journalism, Central Saint Martins, and of course, her pet rabbits
The Shoptimist: the olfactory side of high fashion
In her monthly column for Document, the formerly stinky Maya Kotomori examines the world of luxury fragrance
Cooper Brovenick’s diagnosis for the new age
The art adviser-slash-curator challenges time and the solo-show-industrial complex in his latest show, ‘A Modern Disease—like jetlag’
Inside Saint Laurent’s secret Fall/Winter 2024 menswear show
Creative director Anthony Vacarello revisited the ’80s by blowing up the brand’s signature suit
Costaiia helps preserve Indigenous textile craftsmanship
Designer Patricia Maria Pietri sits down with Document to discuss the family, folklore, and fantasy in her contemporary womenswear brand
Style, sustainability, and social democracy: Inside CIFF, Copenhagen’s International Fashion Fair
Fashion Correspondent Maya Kotomori explores the future of the industry at the Danish city’s 62nd annual trade show
In ‘The Wrong Movie,’ an apartment building and a ring light become metaphors for human connection
Artist and writer Keren Cytter’s feature film debuted at the 74th Berlinale, leaving audiences wondering: did that guy really become a drone?
Meet four unique designers from CIFF 62 x Revolver
At the fashion fair’s 62nd annual event, Document sits down with a crop of brands central to the burgeoning Nordic fashion scene
Thom Browne’s Gothic fantasy
Equally dramatic and literary, quoth the designer’s Fall/Winter 2024 collection: “nevermore”
‘Queues’ by Louis Osmosis serializes artistic epiphany
The sculptor’s most recent solo exhibition at Kapp Kapp gives the potency of ideas a spermatozoan mascot
The Shoptimist: To wear your heart in your bra
In her monthly column for Document, Maya Kotomori remains abreast of lingerie’s history in Valentine’s Day marketing schemes
Area’s anatomy of an eye
Creative director Piotrek Panszczyk tests our vision this season with a sparkly collection full of occular allusion
Archive Chives’s latest restaurant takeover is a brothy success
The second installment of chef Luke Vu’s pop-up food series invades downtown restaurant Betty with an artist-bent menu
For Hugo Comte, abstraction is the highest form of flattery
The renowned fashion photographer sits down with Document to discuss love, inspiration, and attitude in his debut film, ‘Purring Metal’
Skemer’s “Kiss Me Kill Me” is a serpentine dream
Watch the premiere of Belgian duo’s latest music video, which explores the dark side of techno
Best in show: Couture Week Spring 2024
Document Journal rounds up the standout couture collections from a week in Paris
Best in show: Men’s Fall/Winter 2024 Fashion Week—Paris
Document Journal rounds up the week’s standout menswear collections from the French fashion capital
Doni Nahmias brings archive-driven design to the NHL
The menswear designer’s newest collaboration with the Arizona Coyotes is proof that hockey is street style’s next sporty obsession
The Shoptimist: What it is, what it was, what it should cost
In her monthly column for Document, Maya Kotomori evaluates the future of subscription services through a luxury lens
‘Gratuity Included’ feasts on the experimental
At the film’s second screening, director and fine artist Paulina Freifeld left audiences at KGB’s theater with one cheeky question: what’s for dinner?
‘Virtual Volume’ makes space a thought experiment
Curated by Patrick R. Crowley, the sculpture show uses relief as a springboard into the many perspectives of the three-dimensional
Eli Payne Mandel’s infinite levity in ‘The Grid’
In his first book, the psychoanalyst-in-training reimagines history’s many apocalypses through lost languages, letters from exile, and dead painters
Elliot Reed’s writing on the wall
The cross-medium artist turns the body politic inside out in ‘Union,’ currently on view at Anonymous Gallery
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
The Shoptimist: A deliberation on object permanence in the Desert Hills Premium Outlets
In her monthly column for Document, writer and fashion theory knave Maya Kotomori finds age 25 while Black Friday buying
In the Skateroom with Michèle Lamy and Charles-Antoine Bodson
The creative multihyphenate isn’t afraid to show teeth across an exclusive collection of art decks, shot by Jeurgen Teller
Raul Lopez and Kelsey Lu mine material from personal histories
The designer and musician reconnect for Document’s Fall/Winter 2023 issue, talking taste, dreams, island time, and where they’ll go from here
Something Special Studios’s cool, cool summer
The creative agency’s fifth annual photo book ‘Summer of Something Special’ presents a visual diary of the world’s favorite season
The Latin American Fashion Awards are by and for the community
The first annual ceremony honored Latinx fashion industry greats, centering the work of the creatives often overlooked by the mainstream
Tracey Emin’s ‘Lovers Grave’ serializes the supine and the sentimental
On view at White Cube, the artist’s latest exhibition grapples with mortality and marks her return to New York
