Gabriel Hendifar is seducing the world, one light fixture at a time
Apparatus’s artistic director speaks on the seductive power of design, storytelling through light, and finding new resonance in his Persian heritage
Love is the message
In a debut portfolio for the inaugural issue of Notes on Beauty, we explore beauty through the lens of those who have indelibly shaped the...
The mirror and the mirage: Fashion photography in a culture of resistance
A talk given at Statements on Style, as part of the MoMA Forum on Contemporary Photography, by Nick Vogelson, Editor-in-Chief, Document Journal and Notes on...
Letter from the Editor: Document launches Notes on Beauty
Alexander Wessely on the art without boundaries
The artist’s work at the Sphere distorts time, identity, and the limits of perception—he sits down with Document to discuss both the human and post-human...
Kenny Scharf’s technicolor vision comes alive at the Brant Foundation
Document sits down with the artist to look back at nearly 50 years of playful creation
David Gray’s ‘Wait For It’ renders New York City as a playground of light and shadow
Document sits down with the artist to discuss the poetic and playful aspects to his monograph of street photography
Announcing Jawara, Document’s Senior Beauty Editor
The hairstylist sits down with Editor-in-Chief Nick Vogelson to discuss the personal, spiritual, and social impact of beauty
Apple blends science and art to revolutionize mobile image-making
Document sits down with Chief Aesthetics Scientist Pamela Chen and iPhone Senior Product Manager Jeremy Hendricks to discuss how the latest iPhones leverage the history...
Building from the inside George Yabu and Glenn Pushelberg of Yabu Pushelberg
Document sits down with the duo behind the boundary-breaking interiors firm to trace how their personal and professional histories inform their forward-looking designs
Document Launches Fall/Winter 2024–25: A New Perspective
Bela Borsodi’s ‘Birth Life Death’ invents new dynamics for inanimate objects
On view at The Corner Gallery in upstate New York, the photographer’s mischievous exhibition creates existential language from the everyday
Announcing Yadim, Document Journal’s Beauty Director
The boundary-pushing makeup artist sits down with Editor-in-Chief Nick Vogelson to discuss the the real-life inspiration behind his practice and the hopeful future of the...
Zegna Artistic Director Alessandro Sartori and actor Mads Mikkelsen imagine new narratives of creative responsibility
During Shanghai’s Villa Zegna event, the pair sit down with Editor-in-Chief Nick Vogelson to talk about fashion’s role in the cultural and natural worlds
Inside the secret libidinal archive of George Platt Lynes
Director Sam Shahid joins photographer Bruce Weber to discuss the artist’s clandestine homoerotic nudes, documented in his new film ‘Hidden Master’
Artist Julia Weist’s latest exhibition gives audiences the vantage of a private investigator
Ahead of her solo presentation at NADA with Moskowitz Bayse gallery, Weist sits down with Document’s editor-in-chief to discuss surveillance data as artistic material
Document Launches Spring/Summer 2024: New Mythologies
Announcing Anita Bitton, Document Journal’s Casting Director
The industry giant sits down with Editor-in-Chief Nick Vogelson to discuss the past, present, and future of her profession
This season, Moncler Grenoble takes to the alps
Remo Ruffini puts his latest collection to work in a celebrity-studded winter forest
Into the Pradasphere, where fashion and fiction collide
Housed within Shanghai’s Start Museum, Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons’s Pradasphere II explores the iconic Milanese brand’s past and projects its future
Document Launches Fall/Winter 2023: Identity in Flux
Document Launches Spring/Summer 2023: Return to the Real
Document Journal launches Winter/Resort 2023: The Fabric of America
For the second half of our tenth anniversary celebration, we widen our aperture from the city outside our window to examine America as a whole—or,...
Document Journal launches Summer/Pre-Fall 2022: A Coney Island of the Mind
Document Journal launches Winter 2021/Resort 2022: New Ways of Seeing
Document Journal launches Summer/Pre-Fall 2021: A New Desire
For our 18th issue, we explore how desire has been interpreted in the past, and how it can shift our thinking in the future
Document Journal launches Fall/Winter 2020: The Alternate Future
What does counterculture look like in this turbulent moment? This question has taken us across the globe and into the deepest corners of the web
Document Journal launches its 16th issue for Spring/Summer 2020
For Document Spring/Summer 2020, we survey the terrain and map the course of the world around us, both where we’ve been and where we’re headed,...
Document Journal launches its 15th print issue for Fall/Winter 2019
“What I’m interested in…is the possibility, as our protest showed, that you can take 5,000 people and change the course of history.” — Extinction Rebellion...
Announcing Document Journal S/S 2019
For Document's S/S 2019 edition, we scan the landscape, both past and present, to identify the power structures, technologies, and cultural forces that shape what...
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...
Announcing Document Journal F/W 2018: A culture at a breaking point
Document's editor-in-chief Nick Vogelson speaks on Document No. 13
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.
Entering the Hermès universe, Avec Elle
As Hermès showcased its Fall/Winter 2018 collection with an immersive exhibition at the National Art Center of Tokyo, Document sat down with artistic director Bali Barret.
“What is an artist’s responsibility?” Introducing Document S/S 2018
With the release of Document No. 12, our Editor-in-Chief & Creative Director Nick Vogelson looks at how the changing of the artist's role in culture...
Letter from the Editor
For the second issue celebrating five years of Document, founder and editor-in-chief Nick Vogelson speaks on unification and the Fall/Winter issue.
Louis Vuitton’s creative director Nicolas Ghesquière looks to the past to see the future
An exclusive conversation days before the the Spring/Summer 2018 Louis Vuitton womenswear show in Paris
Document Turns Five
Founder and editor-in-chief Nick Vogelson reflects on the new issue.
A Modern Manufactory at Mykita Studio
To coincide with the launch of three new eyewear collections, Document travels to Berlin to discuss design philosophy with creative director Moritz Krüger.
Andrea Rosen on the Passing of Time, Synaptic Experiences, and Cellphones with Miranda July
Andrea Rosen, of the Andrea Rosen Gallery, Skypes with performance artist, author and filmmaker Miranda July about her role in representing artists and raising children.
In Memory: Edwige Belmore, Our Lady of Punk
We are very sad to learn of the passing of Edwige Belmore, who grew up behind convent walls and became the passkey to Paris’ legendary...
HBA’s Shayne Oliver discusses the future of fashion with artist Rashaad Newsome
Hood by Air designer Shayne Oliver and mixed media artist Rashaad Newsome discuss Italian fashion, prisoners, and why Oliver shouldn’t be called a streetwear designer.
Original Document: Donna Karan by Denis Piel, 1985
Unearthing Donna Karan's rare video directed by Denis Piel and starring Rosemary McGrotha from the year Karan founded her brand, one can't help but feel...
John Waters on Justin Bieber, Ansel Adams, and His New Show
This Friday, John Waters presents his third solo show at Marianne Boesky’s 24th-Street gallery, John Waters: Beverly Hills John. The show, filled with Water’s signature...
Bjarne Melgaard’s Art Basel Survival Guide
Bjarne Melgaard shares his Art Basel Miami survival guide.
Keeping Timelessness Fresh—Indochine’s Jean-Marc Houmard Speaks With Athena Calderone
Since their meeting, both restauranteur Jean-Marc Houmard and interior designer Athena Calderone have grown and inspired each other in design, art, and food.
In Remembrance—Photographer David Armstrong
It is with a sad heart that we learn the news of photographer David Armstrong’s passing.
Stacy Martin By Verde Visconti
The pair discuss creative connection, protectiveness, and crossing over from acting to modeling.
Stuart Comer By Zackary Drucker
Stuart Comer, chief curator of media and performance at MoMA, discusses New York and new work with artists Zackary Drucker.
