Between illusion and the studied art of the tease, strip clubs are the last bastion of the American Dream
Rachel Rabbit White explores the strip club's enduring fantasy of social and sexual upward mobility, both on-stage and off
Chasing divinity in the Mojave Desert
For the seeker, the mystic, the artist, the outlaw, the romantic idiot, the allure of the American West endures
Ariana Papademetropoulos warps archetypal ways of seeing with ghostly fantasies
For Document’s Winter/Resort 2023 issue, the artist shares a portfolio of paintings that blur the boundary between mythology and reality
In Pasco County, Florida—Nudist Capital, USA—the body politic is on fully display
Way down upon the Suwannee River, purists and partiers clash over the movements founding doctrine
In ‘Death of A,’ Kandis Williams invents recognition of the internal
For Document’s Winter/Resort 2023 issue, the artist compiles stills from her stripped-down interpretation of Arthur Miller’s classic tragedy
Behind crumbling highways and ghost towns lies the mythological freedom of the American road
Is the walkability-car divide another front in the so-called ‘culture wars’? Drew Zeiba explores the online proliferation of the new urbanist
Raw eggs, pink pills, and embodied identity: Online communities create their own proof in a vacuum of truth
Radical Liberal Online Activists and Right Wing Bodybuilders represent two poles of the political spectrum—but they are are each a product of the waning of...
Anicka Yi’s paintings are living, autonomous creatures
Following her 'ÄLñ§ñ' exhibition, the artist joins Hans-Ulrich Obrist to discuss the why art and science should mingle for Document's Winter/Resort 2023 issue
Waajeed constructs Afrofuturist realms from the seed of Detroit techno
The musician's latest album, 'Memoirs of Hi-Tech Jazz,' is an exploration of the technological funk and soul that defined his youth and the city's cultural...
In ‘Whirlpool,’ Jim Goldberg examines the spirit of the small-town South
For Document’s Winter/Resort 2023 issue, the photographer uncovers the nuance of the working-class life along Arkansas’s White River
From El Paso to Harlem: Troy Montes-Michie explores the subversive history of the zoot suit
For Document’s tenth anniversary, the artist joins independent curator Monique Long to expand on the lasting allure of the iconic ensemble
Matthew Williams wants his clothing to have a life of its own
For Document’s tenth anniversary, the Givenchy Creative Director shares the ways in which he navigates the science of fashion and how the cities he’s lived...
New York was killing me: Seeking community in the city of cultural saturation
For Document’s tenth anniversary, Rahel Aima reflects on what New York gave to her, and why she left it
Jimmy DeSana, an iconoclast even within the ’70s avant-garde, is finally entering mainstream consciousness
Laurie Simmons and Drew Sawyer discuss the late artist’s AIDS-era collages in a portfolio for Document’s tenth anniversary
Eileen Myles chronicles a people’s history of East River Park
For Document’s tenth anniversary, the writer merges personal, political, and geological histories to document a city in flux
Frédéric Lagrange finds faith in faces
For Document’s tenth anniversary, the photographer presents the most memorable moments of his career in a series of portraits
Nicolas Party warps familiar realities into an unsettling world of his own
The Swiss artist discusses his otherworldly portfolio and paying homage to the rattlesnake in his painting of Joan Didion for Document’s Tenth Anniversary cover
The art of cruising in the post-digital age
From screens to streets: Drew Zeiba outlines the resurgence of anonymous sex in the city
Living at Xanadu: Ten writers muse on Joan Didion’s literary legacy
Cynthia Zarin, Ira Silverberg, Fariha Róisín, and others reflect on the reach of the iconic American voice
A war vocabulary: Displaced Ukrainians share fragmented stories of loss, trauma, and absurdity
“In a time of war, beauty becomes dangerous. Beautiful things, people, relationships—nowadays they don’t exist to inspire. They exist to be annihilated.”
Mapping a modern trans bohemia in the borough of the flesh
From Greenpoint to Flatbush, McKenzie Wark outlines community on the margins of straight life
Slab City, California: The artistic outpost where outsiders find home
Photographer Laurence Ellis captures creative community on the fringes for Document’s Winter 2021/Resort 2022 issue
Eric N. Mack reconsiders the dimensions of visual art
For Document’s Winter 2021/Resort 2022 issue, the artist speaks on how he’s translating his South Bronx informed textile practice to the context of the Italian...
New Cosmologies: Could reconsidering the Big Bang theory save us?
Tao Lin takes a closer look at science’s creation stories, examining their implications for human culture at large
The alienation and fantasy of modern femininity
Safy-Hallan Farah examines the performance of womanhood in the attention economy, with the Real Housewives as case study
The myth of the lone creative genius
From Steve Jobs to Albert Einstein, it’s an appealing notion that brilliant individuals are behind the world’s most significant creative breakthroughs. But is it true?
From ecological restoration to robot artists, technologists explore how machines could transform our relationship with nature
In this portfolio for Document’s Summer/Pre-Fall 2021 edition, photographer Laurence Ellis investigates how emerging technologies might shape our planetary future
Dispatches from a nonbeliever
Larissa Pham details her quest for the divine
Rediscovering desire in a panopticon of virtual pleasures
Dean Kissick prescribes a renaissance of sensualism to save us from our collective ennui
Adriana Cuenca’s new film is a rich, diaristic journey through Myanmar
As we travel through the nation’s expansive landscape, we are given a glimpse into the daily life of its people
The internet didn’t kill counterculture—you just won’t find it on Instagram
“To be truly countercultural in a time of tech hegemony, one has to, above all, betray the platform.”
Inside ‘Mondo 2000,’ the cyberpunk magazine that gave us a glimpse of the utopian future that never was
The magazine's founder R.U. Sirius talks with Claire L. Evans about internet culture's psychedelic early days and its clusterfuck present
Dior fine jewelry designer Victoire de Castellane takes us inside her technicolor dreamworld
The former 'bourgeois punk' on how she incorporated tie-dye in her latest collection
The politics of pleasure: Is there a place for partying in the revolution?
In pursuit of this question, Michelle Lhooq takes Document inside Seattle’s autonomous zone and through the history of protest
The battle over the visual language of counterculture, from Dada to the digital age
Transgressive design has been defined by the provocative, cut-and-paste aesthetics of punk. Now, a new face of counterculture has emerged.
Saved by the rave: British youth are reclaiming public land to party, even during a pandemic
Photographer Laurence Ellis documents the outdoor free parties where communitarian spirit rages on
Fish, Pole: on crises, change, and the American condition
On the eve of the 2020 Presidential Election, writer Brian Blanchfield considers change in the absence of divine intervention
Eddie Van Halen, the guitar god who boosted hard rock into a neon future
The late rock legend is best remembered for his searing guitar solos—but Eddie Van Halen's most genius creative moment was one that horrified fans, rock...
Andrew Yang joins Document to discuss political polarization, universal basic income, and America’s future
The former presidential hopeful on lessons learned from the campaign trail
In the Australian outback, a vision of our uncertain future
Anangu have lived in the Australian deserts for millennia, but rising temperatures threaten to make the region inhospitable to humans
Vietnam’s “plastic village” is the tale of Western excess
For Document's Spring/Summer 2020 issue, photographer Laurence Ellis traveled to Australia, Zambia, and Vietnam to investigate what might become of the planet
A new law seeks to expose the NYPD’s secret surveillance technology
A closer look at New York City's landmark POST Act—a law the NYPD and Bill de Blasio spent three years trying to quash
From virtual Lolitas to extreme sex, deepfake porn is blurring the lines of consent and reality
Exploring the dark, liberating, and potentially catastrophic future of technology's freakiest frontier
Is lab-grown the new grass-fed? A glimpse into the ethical future of meat
From climate change to public health, synthetic meat is going to change our world
How do we memorialize America’s gun violence epidemic if we can’t yet see its end?
“The question of how to memorialize an ongoing epidemic is a fraught one, particularly at a time when mass shootings have become such a common...
The blurred faces—and ethics—of protest photography
Amid revelations of the NYPD’s biometric surveillance programs, photojournalists are forced to reconsider photography in public space.
Re-centering the Black experience in the horror genre, from ‘Beloved’ to ‘Get Out’
“Black history is black horror”: scholars and creators Tananarive Due, John Jennings, and Robin R. Means Coleman probe the future of horror—with an eye to...
Portrait of Warren, Ohio—a microcosm of the Rust Belt struggle
Trumbull County was a Democratic stronghold before it flipped for Trump in 2016
frog design’s Moon scooters are one giant ‘LEAP’ for transportation
For Document's Fall/Winter 2019 lunar portfolio, the worldwide design firm imagines three products for life on the Moon.
