UNC students are making history, not erasing it, after toppling Confederate monument
This week, students at the University of North Carolina toppled Silent Sam, a Confederate statue that has stood since 1913.
An authentic look at people with their very own Birkenstocks
The brand tapped Jack Davison to shoot Ryan McGinley, Thomas Südhof, Romany Pajdak and more with their beloved Birkenstocks.
France wants to end snobbery, democratize culture, through multimillion-dollar app
The $496-million-a-year plan will target 10,000 18-year-olds, giving them €500 ($577) in credit to spend in the app.
Rapper Killer Mike is the newest board member of Atlanta’s High Museum
The rapper and social activist is one of three fresh faces shaking things up at the High Museum of Art.
Nudists flock the Palais de Tokyo
One of Paris’s most prestigious contemporary art collections opened its doors for the first time to a very marginalized group of culture lovers.
Do something different: Telfar and FAKA bring fashion and music to the Serpentine Pavilion
South African performance art duo FAKA unleashed a soulful performance at Serpentine Galleries in Telfar's spring 2019 collection.
Science attempts to explain why the rich and powerful often behave like swine
Cheating, stealing, lying, and environmental disrespect are habits shared most exclusively to the wealthiest social groups, according to new research.
The UK’s visa problems are crippling the country’s cultural scene
Tightening immigration restrictions for artists seeking to enter the UK are affecting racial and religious minorities.
The photographer who made the biggest names of the 20th century beautiful
Portraits of Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, and Emperor Charles I of Austria taken by Dora Kallmus, or d’Ora, are the subject of an exhibition at...
Vegans be wary: A plant-based diet won’t be viable in the future
Researchers from six American universities discovered that a future of living solely off the land isn’t the most efficient way of farming.
Belgium fights back against Facebook’s problem with Old Master nudes
The Flemish Tourism Board created a video in response to Facebook censoring nude works by Paul Rubens from the Maison de Rubens in Antwerp.
Harley Weir directs a new A.P.C. film starring it-model Paul Hameline
Are the words uttered by models-cum-actors Hameline, Sohyun Jung and Aida Blue in Harley Weir's A.P.C. film a Lettrist poem or random musings?
Watch Document dance with lifestyle label 69 through its new exhibition at MOCA Los Angeles
With an anonymous designer at the helm, non-gender, non-demographic label 69 resolves its own identity crisis in a show at the L.A. museum.
Eckhaus Latta tests the boundaries between fashion, art and commerce at The Whitney
Eckhaus Latta, the cult fashion label by Mike Eckhaus and Zoe Latta, is the subject of The Whitney's first fashion-focused exhibition since 1997.
Ai Weiwei’s studio demolished in wave of destruction against Beijing’s contemporary art community
Beijing authorities destroyed Ai Weiwei's studio without warning last Friday, three years after the artist relocated from China to Berlin.
The case for a museum director who isn’t white or male
Did the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles make the right decision in appointing Klaus Biesenbach as its new director?
Project depicting names of drowned refugees mysteriously disappears from Liverpool Biennial
The List by Turkish artist Banu Cennetoğlu has not been seen since last Saturday when it was removed from a new development in Liverpool’s Chinatown.
Why is our criminal justice system still failing to help the LGBT community?
A study at the University of California at San Francisco discovered that sexual minority offenders are more likely to get stuck in the system.
A new tome traces Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv’s 60 years in logo design
The iconic design firm Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv is responsible for the most memorable American logos, from the NBC peacock to the Chase Bank...
20 states sue Donald Trump to curtail bizarre 3D-printed gun u-turn
Washington state attorney general Bob Ferguson announced in a federal lawsuit that downloadable weapons are a serious national security threat.
The ghosts of historical lynchings still walk among us
A new study in the "Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities" examines the effect of lynchings from 1877 to 1950 on present-day death rates.
Robert Wilson remembers the time Pierre Bergé introduced him to French president François Mitterand
The experimental theater director Robert Wilson honored the late Yves Saint Laurent co-founder Pierre Bergé at The 25th Annual Watermill Center Summer Benefit & Auction.
The Missoni family invites you to enjoy their gnocchi verdi
Francesco Maccapani Missoni collected his family recipes for The Missoni Family Cookbook, published by Assouline.
The child separation crisis at the border is far from over
Even with today's deadline to unify refugee children with their parents.
Most of the female writers you know have experienced sexual harassment
A survey conducted by Writer’s Guild of America West says that sixty-four percent of female writers have experienced sexual harassment at least once in their...
How a bouquet of flowers from Andy Warhol started Peter Marino’s art collection
'To Peter, Andy Warhol.'
Colorblind in a heatwave
Japan is applying its progressive design ethos to heatmaps that can be visible to those with colorblindness.
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.
Another well-researched blow to the moral panic surrounding same-sex parenting
A quarter of a decade since the National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study began researchers can finally reveal that good parenting has nothing to do with sexuality.
Trump’s silence on American arts is deafening
With nine months until the Venice Biennale, the State Department has yet to announce a U.S. artist.
The story of Ser Serpas’s improvised and lucid readymades
The sculptor, painter, and performance artist on her site-specific installation at Zurich's LUMA Westbau gallery.
Brutalism never felt like this before
Opening this week at the Museum of Modern Art is “Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia," a new exhibition on the cold architectural style.
The man in the hole emerges
Footage of the world's most isolated man, who has lived in a hole in the Brazilian jungle since the eradication of his tribe, was captured...
If it’s fresh air you’re looking for, avoid the major national parks
Ozone levels across the country's national parks are virtually indistinguishable from the smog and pollution found in major metropolitan areas according to new research.
Gucci and Frieze collaborate on an Italo Disco fantasy
“Distant Planet: The Six Chapters of Simona," directed by Josh Blaaberg, is a call-back to a not-so-distant time.
Here’s one reason why you stop getting your musical kicks at age 30
A new survey of music listeners attempts to make sense of aging and musical discovery.
A meticulous recreation of Giacometti’s studio is now open to the curious
This summer the Giacometti Institute has opened a near-exact recreation of the sculpture's Montparnasse studio.
The millennials of the world have had enough of big business
A recent survey of millennials and members of Gen Z across six countries has revealed a totally reasonable and widespread mistrust of those leading the...
Global broadband inequality is making it impossible for some nations to log on
The internet is getting faster for a select global few, leaving developing nations at an extreme disadvantage.
David Wojnarowicz’s sleepless nights come to the Whitney
The artist and AIDS activist gets the retrospective treatment at the Whitney starting this month.
At the Happy Family Night Market, a chance to enlighten your palette
This weekend at the 99 Scott event space in Bushwick, the Happy Family Night Market is planning a celebration of Asian-American cuisine and heritage.
Same-sex marriage has opened doors to healthcare for gay men
In the first study of its kind, researchers have found a direct correlation between increased access to healthcare and the legalization of same-sex marriages.
50 years on, Diptyque celebrates the art of the genderless fragrance
Long before the iconic CK One and the age of gender fluidity, the French perfumer thought that a scent should be like a work of...
Raf Simons gives it the college try in Calvin Klein 205W39NYC’s pre-spring collection
Raf Simons played with the bright hues and nostalgic associations of America's sunniest university, the University of California, in his latest collection for Calvin Klein.
Researchers think millennial pink might be the oldest color known to man
Before Tumblr, Instagram, and mankind itself—there was pink, floating in Earth's primordial ooze.
On its 150th birthday, couture is alive, thriving and vital
Embellished, exotic, and exclusive as ever, couture celebrated a century and half of turning heads during Paris Fashion Week.
With Amazon, buying Nazi children’s toys has never been easier
According to a new report by two watchdog groups, the e-commerce hub has become a handy resource for extremist children toys.
Vetements’s Spring 2019 collection told the story of Demna Gvasalia’s bared soul
A traumatic and violent youth served as an astonishing storyboard for the Georgian's latest collection.
A raid on an Italian artifact smuggling ring may have unlocked a vast forgery web
The recent bust of one of Italy's oldest organized crime rings may have 'convulsive' impacts on the scholarly world of artifacts and forgeries.
