Wedding veils, pan flutes, and the perfect day for a picnic
A deep dive into ‘Picnic at Hanging Rock,’ the 1975 cult film that inspired everyone from Chloë Sevigny to Alexander McQueen and redefined Australian cinema
Ladyland Festival is Pride in a musical microcosm
Document goes backstage with the Brooklyn event’s queer icons, including Tinashe, Tokischa, Bob the Drag Queen, and many more
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
Steven Cuffie’s relational image-making
A new zine and exhibition provide a glimpse into the rich archive of intimate portraits by the late photographer
Is a socialite just a scammer who succeeded?
In an interview with Harron Walker, the author Shola von Reinhold discusses the fabulosity of fabulation and whether some stories should be allowed to disappear
In ‘Queendom,’ authenticity is resistance
Agniia Galdanova’s documentary showcases art’s radical potential by following Russian performance artist Jenna Marvin
Fine Print: Poetry by any means necessary
For his monthly column, Drew Zeiba traverses New York City in search of performances beyond the page
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
Even undead, Joan Didion won’t back down
In this AI-facilitated conversation, ‘Mean Boys’ author Geoffrey Mak talks to the late essayist about addiction, critical audacity, and American literature’s CIA roots
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
Moncler Genius announces immersive new project for Shanghai Fashion Week
The brand promises a boundary-pushing experience to close out the season this October
Extreme Cashmere won’t compromise on making the perfect knit
Document visits the luxury knitwear label’s founder Saskia Dijkstra and brand director Wies Verhoofstad in their 17th-century Amsterdam HQ
Ben Werther asks if LARPing is the new readymade
War-zone fantasies meet suburban poetics in ‘When You Can No Longer Speak, Sing Me a Song,’ the artist’s solo exhibition at No Gallery
Montreal-based label Skip Fame turns a former bank building into a ghostly performance space
In ‘Won / One / Whah Gwan’ Brandon Lajoie and Gregory Miller stage a hybrid runway show without beginning or end
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
Funto Omojola’s cosmological reckonings
Hair, plastic, clay, and pictures come together to challenge conceptions of illness and image at the artist and poet’s photography installation at A.I.R. Gallery
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
Jennifer Rochlin and Jennifer Guidi keep each other curious
On the occasion of Rochlin’s exhibition ‘Paintings on Clay’ at Hauser and Wirth, the two artists talk about friendship, collaboration, and the potency of nature
Seeing the unseen in the work of Vivian Maier
Kering Group’s Women in Motion initiative hosted a glitzy and cerebral celebration of the renowned photographer at Fotografiska
Dominic Leong knows aesthetics are politics
The co-founder of the architecture firm Leong Leong discusses fashion, public space, land recovery, and design’s impact on bodies throughout history
Drew Ducote’s ‘Rednecks with Paychecks’ showcases the torque of Texas’s underground motorist community
The New York-based artist mines the mud-slicked culture of his native Lone Star State in this photo story dedicated to the eponymous collective of offroaders
The mother and the monster in Catalina Ouyang’s ‘Trick’
Currently on view at Lyles and King, the sculptor’s latest show references everything from fox spirits to early 17th-century bridles in an installation as ethereal...
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
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...
Inside Franciacorta, Italy’s next bubbly vinicultural destination
Translating directly to ‘short France,’ the bucolic region’s complex sparkling wines highlight cultural and climactic change
Stacy Skolnik’s genre-bending ‘The Ginny Suite’ is an experiment in post-pandemic poetics
The writer discusses her dissociative debut novel’s speculative journey through sex, sickness, and literary form
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
Fine Print: In the labyrinth of the no
In his monthly column, Drew Zeiba considers the creative merits of giving up through tales of defiant scriveners, starving artists, and painters fluent in refusal
Elisabetta Zangrandi creates her own art-historical canon
The Italian painter’s latest solo exhibition ‘Musée Imaginaire’ looks to past generations of women artists to stage a new present
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
Kristen Wentrcek and Andrew Zebulon find inspiration at the DMV
In the art-design duo’s studio, references to bodies and buildings meet unexpected material experimentation
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
Mara Mckevitt’s cult of persona
The artist and filmmaker joins Whitney Mallett, founding editor of ‘The Whitney Review’ to discuss the artifice of authorship through her alter-ego Val
Gab Bois’s second drop with ‘Canapés’ is a citrusy welcome to spring
The artist’s latest release from her ready-to-wear collection features a deceptively real clementine heel, drawing on the fruit’s multitude of meanings
Charlotte Day Wilson’s shades of blue
The musician discusses queer identity and moving through grief for her latest album, ‘Cyan Blue’
Guerreiro do Divino Amor builds a Helvetian Olympus at the 60th Venice Biennale
The multimedia artist transforms the Swiss Pavilion into a dark and glitzy critique of Switzerland’s self-conjured mythology
Saint Laurent cinematic connection comes full circle in Cannes
For the Festival’s 2024 edition, the luxury house-turned-production studio is realizing Anthony Vaccarello’s expansive ambitions on the silver screen
For Tyler Matthew Oyer, queerness is a cosmic dance
In their performance ‘Venus 2.0,’ the LA-based interdisciplinary artist explores the relationship between the body, raving, and outer space
Inside BoND, the New York architecture and interiors office reshaping the art world and beyond
Design duo Noam Dvir and Daniel Rauchwerger marry form with fantasy in striking spaces
Silence sizzles in ‘Tiptoeing Through the Kitchen’, Luhring Augustine’s latest group show
The exhibition delves into the mysteries and emotions buried beneath the surface of a photograph
Dreaming alongside Sega Bodega
The DJ-producer explores a melodic world between sleeping and waking, probing the unconscious mind on his third album ‘Dennis’
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
Taking care with the weird, wild, and political literatures of Hard to Read
In memoriam of storyteller Cecilia Gentili, the co-organizers reflect on their winter conversations program which united writers and activists to discuss our political moment
Club Document: Celebrating SS24 with Erykah Badu, Michèle Lamy, and Editor-in-Chief Nick Vogelson
Inside our Issue 24 launch party featuring hot guests and even hotter DJ sets
Music-made memories, from the mind of C.FRIM
Ahead of her appearance at Barcelona’s Sónar Festival, the Melbourne-based DJ curates an eclectic track list born out of sonic remembering
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
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
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,...
