Rafael Prieto meditates on the harmony between the natural and man-made
Ahead of his show at Emma Scully Gallery, the artist reflects on his design philosophy, which hinges on the embrace of what’s beautiful in its...
Document takes to Montreal, uniting nightlife and fashion with Holt Renfrew Ogilvy
For the second iteration of the 'After Dark' party series, cabaret bar Vol de Nuit set the stage for a night of transition and cultural...
Why can’t sex workers find a bank?
Following the Silicon Valley Bank collapse, another shutdown went unnoticed: that of SpankPay, one of the few payment platforms catering to the adult industry
flowerovlove’s scene-by-scene soundtrack to adolescent romance
Following the release of her latest single “Love You,” Joyce Cisse offers a playlist of the pop anthems that shaped her mission of self-love
Ask Liara: A sex worker’s guide to living, loving, and fucking
In the March edition of their monthly column for Document, Liara Roux addresses a reader’s inner turmoil around cosmetic procedures and the doors they open
Sophie Thatcher finds salvation in storytelling
The ‘Yellowjackets’ star opens up about her music career, childhood obsessions, and her desire to ‘become unrecognizable’
With ‘Road Less Traveled,’ Rose B. Simpson diaries the tension between ancestry and modern culture
The artist’s New York debut is on view at Jack Shainman Gallery, rendering tangible her relationship with Native identity and cycles of personal struggle
The work of art in the age of algorithmic optimization
The intellectual property debate asks who profits from the fruits of creative labor—and what it means to make something beautiful when everyone else can, too
Thomas Blackshear casts new light on the canon of Western American art
In collaboration with Stetson, the artist personifies the hidden Black cowboy, reimagining Lon Megargee’s iconic painting ‘The Last Drop From His Stetson’
Alicia Keys and Moncler Genius capture the cool of New York
The artist is the label’s latest co-creator, imagining garments that merge street style with the city’s characteristic elegance
In ‘DENTRO,’ Jester Bulnes is preoccupied with parallels, pairs, and the in-between
The artist’s first photobook is diaristic and investigative, marking stages in the evolution of the their character, and exploring grounds for its further expansion
Daytripping: Ghost dance
In her bi-weekly column for Document, McKenzie Wark tells a tale of two boroughs, two generations, and what we’ve lost and found through nightlife
Age, anger, and anxiety: The doctrine of Sleaford Mods
Following the release of ‘UK GRIM,’ Jason Williamson and Andrew Fearn join Document to disclose why they’ll keep going until they “drop dread”
Chase Hall mines memory, bearing witness to personal histories
Following the opening of ‘The Close of the Day,’ the artist joins Document to discuss code switching and the American South
GPT-4 heralds a new era of AI-generated get-rich-quick schemes
Digital entrepreneurs are automating their side hustles—and the ease with which they’re being replaced calls into question their value in the first place
Antoine Harinthe snapshots a first impression of Jamaica
The photographer shares a portfolio of chance encounters and lush landscapes with Document, imparting a piece of the nation's mesmerizing spirit
‘What Is Psychedelic’ details Aura Rosenberg’s appetite for impulse
The artist joins Document to reflect upon her first institutional survey, which traverses five decades, two spaces, and one book
McKenzie Wark on raving and the infrastructure of queer life
The writer meets with Document to discuss her latest book, the low genre of autofiction, and the makings of a good party
Ethical Capital Partners wants to make Pornhub a leader in the fight against illegal content online
Parent company MindGeek has been acquired by a private equity firm, just days after a new Netflix documentary chronicled its exploitative practices
Caroline Rose’s songs for seeking sincerity
Ahead of the release of ‘The Art of Forgetting,’ the artist lets Document in on the tracks that incite emotion, inspiring their album’s unreserved intimacy
Meet CupidBot, an AI designed to automate straight men’s dating life
A group of alleged ex-Tinder engineers designed a service to improve the experience of heterosexual men in the only place they face systemic disadvantage: on...
Jessan Macatangay’s soft, scanty, sculptural world
The budding designer fills Document in on his graduate collection—a metaphor for the Filipino woman, derived from personal memory
You probably haven’t heard about the most egregious Oscars snub
‘The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse’ won Best Animated Short—the worst contender by far, backed by a celebrity-studded network
Microsoft lays off its ethics team despite doubling down on AI offerings
The team was tasked with predicting the dangers of new technologies, raising questions about the company’s commitment to responsible use
Joni’s tracklist for jumpstarting spring fever
The musician and Intima founder curates a list of songs for getting back into the physical, from Björk remixes to Ofra Haza’s transcendent vocals
Looking back on the oeuvre of Yvonne Rainer, iconoclast and artistic visionary
Following her retrospective at Metrograph, the filmmaker and choreographer meets with Document, testifying to the creative power of nonconformity
In ‘Inside,’ art informs character
Curator Leonardo Bigazzi joins Document to expand upon the film’s collection, reflecting upon the experience of art through the screen
Model Diaries: From Amsterdam to Milan to Paris with Maaike Klaasen
The Dutch model documents her time at Fashion Week, donning show-stealing looks for Moschino and Balmain
BOFFO makes its return to dry land with ‘Group Show: A Retrospective’
On Friday night, an exhibition-themed party brought alumni of the Fire Island residency back together, in the middle of Times Square
Behind the scenes with Gary Gill, the hairstylist imbuing high fashion with punk
Gill fills Document in on the inspiration behind Fall/Winter 2023's most striking looks—from forest raves, to hat hair, to club kids in the morning after
Performance Space celebrates new paths across New York’s creative landscape
The arts organization held its annual gala on Saturday, honoring Pope.L, Sarah Schulman, and Michelle Coffey with an intimate dinner theater
Pornhub made free porn accessible to everyone—but at what cost?
Netflix’s new documentary ‘Money Shot’ chronicles the rise of the internet porn empire, and the scandals that rocked the adult film industry
Model Diaries: Maty Drazek snapshots the lead-up to Miu Miu’s Fall/Winter 2023 show
At the tail end of Paris Fashion Week, the Prague-born breakout star takes Document along to their fittings at the Hôtel Le Marois
Avey Tare offers an unembellished self-portrait with ‘7s’
Dave Portner joins Document following the release of his latest solo work to reflect on where it fits in his broader creative evolution
With ‘Cyberfeminism Index,’ Mindy Seu snapshots a mutating movement
Following the release of her book, the designer and researcher speaks on information activism, the art of collecting, and the power in rendering grassroots technologies
Setting the stage for falling in love, or something like it
In the realm of reality dating television, “The Mansion” is a character in and of itself—designed to manipulate contestants, as well as everybody watching
What can we do about deepfake porn?
A new face-swap app ran provocative ads featuring celebrity faces, illustrating the dangers of non-consensual deepfakes and the struggle to moderate them
Daytripping: Dancing into the folds of time
In her bi-weekly column for Document Journal, McKenzie Wark writes about dancing at Berlin’s Berghain, the world-famous temple of techno
Antanas Sutkus portraits subtle assertions of the self in Lithuania
The photographer's decades-long practice is rooted in observation, capturing small pleasures, nuanced expressions of identity, and undoctored instances of emotion
What internet sex drama says about our political climate
From debates over on-screen sex scenes to whether kids should be exposed to drag, recent Twitter discourse illustrates the slippery slope of online censorship
For Winter 2023, Bruno Sialelli observes the far-reaching history of Lanvin
From the Middle Ages to the Renaissance to the ’80s, the French house’s latest collection drew from disparate eras to modernize bygone design
Ludovic de Saint Sernin adopts ambiguity to imagine the ultramodern
The designer's Fall/Winter 2023 collection for Ann Demeulemeester embodies the enigmatic, subverting both gender and form
Hedi Slimane captures Bob Dylan, the latest in a long line of sonic muses
‘Portrait Of,’ a photographic series co-authored with CELINE, immortalizes those subjects Slimane deems indispensable to music history
Issey Miyake teases out the potential of perfect geometry
Satoshi Kondo’s Fall/Winter 2023-2024 collection derives inspiration from the square, building out new pleats and knits from within the limitations of the form
Loewe conjures fashion’s ghosts
For Fall/Winter 2023, Jonathan Anderson leaned on the ephemeral and the out-of-focus, reducing classic silhouettes down to the “bluntest shape possible”
At Paris Fashion Week, Matthew M. Williams proposes a new kind of formality
Givenchy’s Fall/Winter 2023 collection finds elevated ease, imagining loungewear's silhouettes in polished form
Lucia Pieroni reflects the harmony between old-school and present-day glamor
The make-up artist shares a backstage look at her process, leading up to Givenchy’s forward-looking Fall/Winter 2023 presentation
Chiiild’s sonic North Stars
Upon the release of ‘Better Luck In The Next Life,’ the Montreal-born artist joins Document to curate a list of transportive tracks
At Paris Fashion Week, Courrèges compels its audience to look up
Nicolas di Felice’s Fall/Winter 2023 show interrogated digital-age addiction, presenting mirrored pendants, deep pockets, and clever cut-outs
