
For Balenciaga, life is a runway—and should be treated as such
The house displayed its Spring 2024 collection in a slice-of-life performance, imagining a world where everyone is adorned head-to-toe in its designs

Alice Longyu Gao’s playlist for getting over your Dimes Square crush
The artist invites you into xyr colorful chaotic world of queer prosperity

Livestream the Balenciaga Spring 2024 show here
Watch the stream exclusively on Document this Tuesday, May 30 at 3:00 p.m. CET / 9:00 a.m. EST

Frans de Waal and Isabella Rossellini find models for morality in the past and the primal
At Pioneer Works, the two met to investigate where man went wrong, and the misused excuses of biology for prejudices

Remembering Kenneth Anger, an icon of queer cinematic counterculture
The groundbreaking filmmaker believed movies were “evil” and likened his practice to the “casting of a spell”—the influence of which is imbued across visual culture

Water From Your Eyes is expert in the art of accident
Ahead of the release of ‘Everyone’s Crushed,’ Rachel Brown and Nate Amos join Document to unpack their unintentional self-prophesying and extrapolate the record’s many meanings

Objects of Desire: Bottega Veneta’s Andiamo Bag
Document’s definitive guide to the season’s most covetable accessories

How voice cloning is changing the music industry
Universal Music Group just inked a deal with Endel AI—further cementing a revolution in modern listening habits and intellectual property laws alike

‘The Complete Incoherence’ oozes with the essence of Gaetano Pesce
In this much-anticipated monograph, critic and curator Glenn Adamson portraits the expanse of the Italian architect and designer’s idiosyncratic oeuvre

Story of an Archive: Inside Boo-Hooray, Johan Kugelberg’s subcultural treasure chest
Document presents a look at the collection’s most compelling ephemera, safeguarding hip-hop’s New York history and Keith Haring’s earliest ideas

‘Analog Human Studies’ is provocative and agonizingly intimate
More than 15 years following the release of ‘Lost Boys,’ Slava Mogutin presents a new photography book—bestowing queer culture with an ever-changing face

Behind the scenes at Fever Ray’s hypnotic New York show
Writer and philosopher FT reviews the ‘There’s No Place I’d Rather Be,’ tour—a “deranged circus,” with vocalist Karin Dreijer as its ringmaster

Malice K adopts an old-school ethos on “Complicated Dreams”
Alexander Konschuh joins Document to dissect the intentions, personal reckonings, and painstaking process behind the making of his stop-motion music video

Standing Ground bridges the earthen with the cosmic
Michael Stewart Dunne, the designer behind the burgeoning label, speaks to the Irish relics that inspire him, and the traditions of craftsmanship he lives by

Amidst a rise in cybercrime, researchers trained an AI on the dark web
Having scoured the internet’s seedy underbelly, DarkBERT suggests that, in the future, AI may play an even bigger role in online policing

For Juergen Teller, confrontation is an art and an act of care
‘The Master V’ is the latest installment in the photographer’s ongoing series—featuring his manifold muses, from Iggy Pop to Julia Fox

Szilvia Molnar’s ‘The Nursery’ paints a grim portrait of parenthood
Against a cultural backdrop of #TradWives and #BossQueens, the novel delves into the dark side of nuclear family, in scenes shockingly blunt and intimate

Objects of Desire: Loro Piana’s Blossom Bag
Document’s definitive guide to the season’s most covetable accessories

Inside London Craft Week, where tradition meets modernity
Document spoke with a few of the fair’s innovative makers, celebrating the heritage of weaving, millinery, metalworking, and more

A playlist portrait of Lauren Early
Ahead of the release of ‘Don’t Take My Dream Away,’ the musician offers Document a soundtrack to herself—from first favorite songs to unexpected artistic influences

Francesco Vezzoli confronts the legacy of the classical
The artist joins Document to dissect ‘VITA DULCIS,’ his exhibition of multimedia fantasias decontextualizing antiquity for modern contexts

Misha Japanwala wants you to be without shame
In her new exhibition, the artist documents the bodies of those who have worked to forge a more liberated society in her native Karachi

At Club Onyx, Adrienne Raquel documents the reality behind the strip club’s fantasy
Previously on view at Fotografiska, the photography series is now available in the form of a monograph

Daytripping: Living in the gaps of being
In her biweekly column for Document, McKenzie Wark writes about dissonance—in music, at the party, and in one’s own body

Document premieres the music video for “UNAVAILABLE,” Casey Spooner’s sonic meditation on sex and death
In communion with Fire Island’s storied geography, the artist explores the particular agonies and pleasures of longing

Artists and journalists call for the restriction of AI illustration in publishing
In an open letter, Molly Crabapple and Mazria Katz advocate against the use of the technology in journalism, a medium long defined by human storytellers

Objects of Desire: Dior’s Micro Lady bag
Document’s definitive guide to the season’s most covetable accessories

‘Femme F(r)iction’ canvasses the trailblazing work of a century of female creatives
C1760’s sweeping group exhibition traverses medium, featuring the work of Judy Chicago, Jeanne Silverthorne, Najla El Zein, and many more

Kate Ahn bares it all in ‘Oh No! I’m Naked!’
The LA-based artist’s first hometown solo show grapples with fantasy and the freedoms of sexual expression

Luis Alberto Rodriguez’s ‘O.’ is a noise, a gasp, a cycle, a reset
The photographer’s latest book seeks moments of transcendence, imagined in dynamic studio nudes and coffee-ground divination

Paw Gissel documents the ease of the Brazilian coast
Rio de Janeiro’s communal spaces are an antidote to its inequities, snapshotted through a humanist lens by the Copenhagen-based photographer

Inside Jean Paul Gaultier and The Webster’s Spring/Summer 2023 launch party
The house’s ‘FLOWERS’ collection was put on full display amidst fittingly lush arrangements—a reclamation of its early-2000s archive

Claire Dederer’s ‘Monsters’ is a story about us
The author set out to write a book about the art of monstrous men—in the process, she rendered a complex portrait of humanity

Objects of Desire: Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello’s Jerry 110 sandals
Document’s definitive guide to the season’s most covetable accessories

‘The Godfather of AI’ speaks out about the dangers of the technology he helped create
Geoffrey Hinton has left Google, joining the chorus of industry leaders warning against the race to deploy new AI models

‘Everything is a Self-Portrait’ centers the unending self
Upon the book’s release, photographer Francis Kanai and poet Malaya Malandro join Document to discuss finding familiarity in the unfamiliar

Pornhub blocks access in Utah to protest new age verification laws
The legislation chips away at the right to privacy online—raising questions about the cost of making the internet safe for children

‘100% (Ciento por Ciento)’ spotlights Patagonia’s storied landscape, and the fight to protect it
Colin Dodgson’s photo book, created in collaboration with the World Land Trust, connects with the communities working to preserve the world’s most wild regions

Daytripping: Learning the art of letting go
In her biweekly column for Document, McKenzie Wark writes about a cross-generational spring party and the simple comforts of dance

The art of curating Coachella
Raffi Lehrer joins Document to discuss the impact of large-scale installation work, and which sorts of creatives make the cut

Bookmarked: Everything the Document editors watched, read, ate, bought, and listened to in April
From our latest print issue to Delta Sky Club rewards, our team shares the very best of what we consumed this month

Miami is a poem we write together
Vignettes from O, Miami Festival: bee-keeping, traffic, and readings cementing a quick-changing city’s literary scene

Inside TRANSFIX, the world’s largest touring immersive art experience
Set in a multi-level labyrinth off the Las Vegas strip, the event’s inaugural edition is a choose-your-own-adventure featuring art from over 50 creators

James Walsh builds wearable sculpture, fueled by childhood nostalgia
The budding designer takes inspiration from doll clothes and porcelain figures, softening the futurism of his techniques with a playful aesthetic

The slow sea odyssey of ‘Human Flowers of Flesh’ renders everything from “nothing”
Thoughtful meditations are foregrounded in German filmmaker Helena Wittmann’s modern take on Claire Denis’s ‘Beau Travail’

Document Launches Spring/Summer 2023: Return to the Real

Ask Liara: A sex worker’s guide to living, loving, and fucking
In the April edition of their monthly column for Document, Liara Roux tackles the phenomenon that is the fuckboy

An Orwellian guide to the making of a literary festival
At a New York City soirée ahead of the Narrowsburg event, Deep Water founder Aaron Hicklin read out the 11-step plan that started it all

Spotify has a fake artist problem
Users are encountering AI-generated songs by artists that don’t exist—many of which are being aggressively promoted by the platform’s algorithm
