Backstage at Ladyland Festival 2025
Document presents the official artist portraits of the festival’s diva-studded lineup, featuring Cardi B, FKA Twigs, Sukihana, and more
The spiral stories of David Wojnarowicz in ‘Memories That Smell Like Gasoline’
Legendary editor Amy Scholder revisits Wojnarowicz's searing work on queer consciousness and erotic memory, now reissued by Nightboat
Viktor & Rolf haute couture finds drama in duality
For Fall/Winter 2025, the Dutch design pair presented a showcase of 15 billowing feather-filled looks, each with a deflated counterpart
FIST goes deeper with its first-ever compilation
The queer techno party channels nine years of dancefloor mayhem into a mixtape, featuring Ryan James Ford, Baby Blue, and more
The zeitgeist forces Stephen Petronio’s hand
Once nurtured by New York’s downtown scene, the choreographer now confronts an arts ecosystem in flux, and exits on his own terms
Doublet Spring/Summer 2026 is ripe for picking
In Paris, designer Masayuki Ino cultivates a produce-inspired collection named after the Japanese phrase, 'Itadakimasu'—a statement of gratitude before a meal
Do you know what your soul wants? Maya Martinez might
In her new book ‘Theatrics’, the playwright-performer draws on Texas Roadhouse, Desperate Housewives, and TikTok spirals to stage a new kind of existential comedy
Mohammed El-Kurd refuses to perform for the West
The Palestinian writer—in conversation with Hannah Black and photographed by Nan Goldin—speaks on his new book 'Perfect Victims,' an unflinching indictment of Zionism and the...
For Mihara Yasuhiro, deception is in the details
The designer's Spring/Summer 2026 collection 'Ordinary People' riddles the everyday with a series of extraordinary twists
‘Balenciaga by Demna’ looks back on the former creative director’s decade with the house
At Kering's Paris headquarters, a self-curated exhibition elaborates upon Demna's final show for Balenciaga, featuring pieces across 30 collections
Flow & form: Issey Miyake’s IM MEN unfolded
For SS26, IM MEN teams up with ceramicist Shoji Kamoda, translating earthen textures and sculptural lines into dynamic menswear
Rick Owens Spring/Summer 2026: To bathe in the ‘Temple of Love’
Named after Owens's retrospective which opened directly following the show, the collection was a baroque-inspired, leather-filled homage to the designer's career
“Did anything happen in Leeds–yes, yes it did”
In ‘Melanie and the Miners’ Strike,’ artist Victoria Gill reframes cultural memory with her mother’s glam snapshots of the 1980s in Northern England
Lot 001: Dressing the auction house
FRAME and Sotheby’s reimagine the art world uniform in a collaborative capsule collection, fittingly launched with an uptown dinatoire
Second skin: How the leather daddy infiltrated catwalks from club darkrooms
Writer Pedro Vasconcelos traces leather’s journey from underground queer spaces to high-fashion runways, while photographer Jonny Marlow documents the origins of this aesthetic at LA’s...
Mert Alas’s SEVENTY ONE Gin is an ode to fleeting beauty
Inspired by the spectacle of the Queen of the Night Flower's annual bloom, this latest offering harnesses a flavor that haunts
Mystery at the Grooms’: Hermès’ Workshop of the Imagination
At Pier 36, the French house transforms craft tradition into immersive theater, asking what luxury means when the world refuses to slow down
Without him, they’re just clothes
Leigh Bowery's art was inseparable from his presence—a challenge Tate Modern's retrospective can't quite solve
A new map for menswear
With a quietly radical show in Dubai, Zegna shifts the geography of luxury—and the silhouette of the modern man
Ellery Neon’s punk odyssey
From founding a Gowanus squat to performing at MoMA PS1, the transdisciplinary artist has carved a path from New York's margins to its cultural center...
Marie Tomanova, for you, for us
With a new book and an HBO documentary, the photographer turns the lens both outward and inward, charting the messy, joyful act of becoming
At Performance Space New York, Tara-Jo Tashna builds a sonic sanctuary
In 'A. Garden', the artist and curator brings together performers working across disciplines to imagine joy, ecology, and resistance as shared ground
The business of being Philippa Snow
In Snow Business, the author implicates herself in the entertainment industry she so loves and dissects
Documenting desire in ‘My Romantic Ideal’
Photographer Slava Mogutin unites 28 artists across generations for an exhibition at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division
What Edmund White gave us
Ira Silverberg on the writer who made gay life feel both mythic and mundane, whose books changed everything—and whose stories, in and out of bed,...
Scene report: The 2025 Cinema Unbound Awards highlight the spirit of Portland
From Nicholas Cage cosplay to zoning lectures with David Byrne, PAM CUT redefines what it means to gather around moving images
At The School, ‘General Conditions’ is both a mirror and an antidote
Jack Shainman’s upstate school-turned-gallery hosts 29 artists grappling with the current weight of the world
Play is protest in ‘Le Grand Calao’
In Zoé Cauwet’s short film, making its US premiere at NYAFF, a womens association's long-awaited day of leisure becomes an act of defiance
Beyond the festival: meet the artists behind TONO 2025
Following the two-week-long event, festival founder Sam Ozer chats with some of the creators behind this year's immersive exhibitions
Inside the Parsons 2025 BFA show, ‘A Common Thread’
Backstage at the former Barneys New York building, Document spoke with three designers shaping the future of fashion
From ‘wrecker of civilization’ to gallery retrospective
Cosey Fanni Tutti's controversial 'Magazine Actions' arrives in New York with a silver frame but the same provocative questions
Tailoring the spirit
Jerry Lorenzo and Andre Walker on the sacred responsibility of dressing for the Met, the language of rebellion, and the quiet spirituality of Black formalwear
‘Video After Video: The Critical Media of CAMP’ traces an alternate history of the medium
From the Picturephone to the present day, the Mumbai-based collaborative studio grapples with the politics and poetics of the moving image
From excess to intimacy: Spyros Rennt’s evolution in ‘To Kiss Against the Fire’
The Greek photographer reflects on the shift from documenting nightlife hedonism to capturing queer intimacy in his largest exhibition yet at Berlin’s Rosegarden
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
Document Celebrates Spring/Summer 2025 at Jean’s with Joe Alwyn and JW Anderson
Hosted by Editor-in-Chief Nick Vogelson alongside Joe Alwyn and JW Anderson at the downtown hotspot, Document's Spring/Summer 2025 launch event was a night to remember
Model/Actriz and Sextile are writing the soundtrack to the modern age
On the heels of their new releases, 'Pirouette' and 'yes, please.,' the artists convene to discuss process, connection, and survivalism through art
Angel’s share: out of town, in the flesh
For her monthly column, Angel Money reflects on the erotic thrill of being watched and wanted, away from home
Scene report: New York’s literati clash at Alex Kazemi’s New Millennium Boyz afterparty
Co-hosted by Kelly Cutrone at Gelso & Grand, the paperback launch was a "microcelebrity deathmatch"
Arthur Elgort and the city that made him
At AIPAD, Arthur Elgort reflects on four decades of capturing spontaneous elegance in a live talk with Sophie Elgort and Dara Allen
Inside ‘Deviations,’ the queer group show curated by Oscar yi Hou
The artist walks us through the intimate, offbeat group show he curated at James Fuentes, spotlighting voices from his tight circle of friends
Gideon Jacobs stages a technospiritual crisis at EARTH
In a sermon-performance equal parts satire and sacrament, 'Images' asks what it means to renounce the screen—and whether doing so is even possible
A literary coven meets on Madison Avenue
From poetry and perfume to grief and girlhood, “Experience of Vastness” at Fleiss-Vallois traced the hidden nectars of feminine creation
YESHE is the new diva of diaspora pop
Blending Tibetan mantra, electronic subversion, and generational memory, YESHE’s music video reclaim space and refuse silence
The Gospel of Cookie Mueller
Cult icon, chronicler of chaos, and poet of the absurd—Cookie Mueller’s Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black is a sacred text of...
George Rouy explores the human body as both subject and medium
Following his debut solo show in London, the British artist joins Document to discuss painting, performance, and his corporeal collaboration with choreographer Sharon Eyal
The future of mobility discussed on the Arlecchino train at Prada Frames 2025
Held at Milan Central Train Station and a restored 1950s train originally designed by Gio Ponti, Prada Frames 2025 brought together designers, policymakers, and researchers...
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...
Kingsley Ifill is in no rush
In his latest exhibition, 'Blue Roan' at Hannah Barry Gallery in London, the artist brings together 15 years of instinct-driven image-making, carving frames by hand,...
