Why the Moon should operate on a ‘Hotel California’ principle
‘You can check out but you can't leave.’ Critic and sociologist Steve Fuller makes the case in this installment of Document's imagining of lunar life...
What will we drive on the moon? Lexus shows Document the future
For Document Fall/Winter 2019, we called upon culture's brightest minds to envision lunar life. Here are Lexus's seven proposals for luxury space travel.
10 extraordinary creators imagine life on the Moon in Document’s ‘Lunar Portfolio’
Lexus, Nike, OMA, DJ Honey Dijon, and more share their visions for what our future among the stars might hold in this portfolio for Document's...
Their lands, our future: photographing the resiliency and innovation in the Zambian floodplains
Laurence Ellis documents the Barotseland region for Document's Fall/Winter 2019 issue.
The hysteria-inducing, swashbuckling adventurers behind Louis Vuitton’s most well-traveled trunks
From Douglas Fairbanks, the eccentric, old Hollywood celebrity to Casanova orchestra conductor Leopold Stokowski, discover whirlwind lives of the original Louis Vuitton carriers.
Dive into the waters of ‘Wet: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing’
We revisit the oddball ’70s magazine, which counted Debbie Harry and Mick Jagger among its cover stars, for Document Fall/Winter 2019
Remembering the fall of the Berlin Wall, 30 years later
Peaches, Liz Johnson Artur, the infamous Berghain bouncer Sven Marquardt, and others share their memories of an international turning point in Document's F/W 2019 issue.
What it’s like to earn a Master’s degree in the basement of an Amsterdam nightclub
Dr. Nelly Ben Hayoun's University of the Underground offers a Master's in the Design of Experiences. After the program's first two chaotic years, Ben Hayoun...
Their lands, our future: the indigenous frontline defenders of the Amazon
Photographer Laurence Ellis documents the Loreto region of the Amazon rainforest for Document Fall/Winter 2019.
The new Space Race, and the desperately outdated laws that govern it
With talk of Space Force and Moon colonization, Becky Ferreira explains why it might be time to update our 50 year old space treaty in...
‘The Village Voice’ nurtured New York’s preeminent thinkers—here are their untold stories
Writer Bob Morris reflects on the alternative weekly golden era with Hilton Als, Lynn Yaeger, Michael Musto, and Vince Aletti.
Document spotlights 5 extraordinary people whose work is transporting us from untenable presents to unimagined futures
We hear from Jose Antonio Vargas on immigration, Marion Nestle on food, Damian Woetzel on the arts, Sarah Lewis on images, and Irin Carmon on...
Peter Saville’s fashion apocalypse now
The graphic artist discusses his relationships with Yohji Yamamoto and Adidas and why it’s time to ask the hard questions about the fashion industry.
Andre Walker’s uniquely candid approach to aesthetics basics
Hilton Als captures Andre Walker's ingenious, sensual world in a cross-cultural stream of consciousness.
Fashion’s “new” problem? Moving the needle forward in the age of infinite reference
Is fashion suffering a crisis of originality? We can’t seem to stop talking about who’s stealing from whom but appropriation is a thoroughly old-fashioned practice—the...
Revisiting Suck magazine’s experiment in radical feminist pornography
Lynne Tillman and other contributors to Suck magazine look back and analyze the legacy that the transgressive magazine left behind.
At Alaska’s “ground zero” for climate change, a new generation of activists fights to preserve a vanishing way of life
Photographer Laurence Ellis and Peter H. Gleick chronicle Alaskans' efforts to fight climate change in Document's Fall/Winter 2018 issue.
Has the internet broken the marketplace of ideas? Rethinking free speech in the Digital Age
Writer Cody Delistraty explores the limitations of free speech absolution in the era of social media for Document's Fall/Winter 2018 issue.
Denham Fouts: The most expensive male sex worker in the world
So-called by novelist Christopher Isherwood, Denham Fouts was pursued by a Greek king, a German baron, a British viscount, and many, many more. Arthur Vanderbilt...
A look back at Gore Vidal’s “sexual paradise”
Was Gore Vidal’s objection to being defined as gay intellectual—“post-gay” before his time?—or was it personal, rooted in the sexual mores of a different generation?
Empress Of carves out a kingdom
Empress Of singer Lorely Rodriguez talks about her insistence on living through empathy and her DIY origins in Los Angeles.
The complexities of getting off in the age of technological pleasure
Access to sexual pleasure has never been greater than in the present—but has that increased satisfaction?
Information overload: When everything is everywhere, how do we understand what’s important?
Political scientist Brendan Nyhan explores where the democratization of information and freedom of choice turn sour for Document's Spring/Summer 2017 issue.
Fashion Nova on the rise
Document transforms the slinky Instagram clubwear sensation Fashion Nova into an indie punk dream.
Author Chris Kraus interrogates social practice in her upcoming book of the same name
Chris Kraus makes radical proposals for how art can be read through context and circumstances in Social Practice
Ottessa Moshfegh gives sleeping it off a try, for once
Murder, booze, and sex have been just some of the novelist's go-tos in the past. Now, the dissolution of her latest book takes its inspiration...
A window into 1980s New York with Robert Mapplethorpe, Cooke Mueller, and Sade
East Village Eye uncovered the brightest minds of 1980s New York. Thirty years later, editor Leonard Abrams finally shares its story in Document S/S 2018.
The next generation of designers determined to make sustainability a fashion reality
Document and graduating students from Parsons School of Design question the fashion industry’s model of excess in this sustainable editorial.
Where have all the cowboys gone? The gay rodeo inherits the American West
“The animal doesn’t care if I’m male or female, gay or straight. When I’m steer riding is the one time I can legitimately say I’m...
David Lynch still keeps his head
Piecing together the fragments of the director's infamously opaque creative process with his new memoir, 'Room to Dream.'
serpentwithfeet sows the seeds of love in ‘soil’
Josiah Wise's latest release as serpentwithfeet is a sensuous plea to indulge the fantasies of unbroken human intimacy.
A life of objects lost in translation
An intimate tour of Christie's acclaimed Rockefeller Auction, this past May, revealed the lie at the heart of estate sales—and of the American dream so...
Forensic Architecture are rebuilding objective truths in a subjective world
The Turner Prize-nominated research collective are bridging the space of war zones and human rights atrocities with the world of fine arts to establish undeniable...
Three emerging Latina artists trace the connection to the ‘Radical Women’ before them
As the Brooklyn Museum shines a long overdue light on two decades of conceptual works by pioneering Latina artists, a trio of emerging New York...
If you haven’t a sense of humor, don’t speak to Geoff Dyer. Or read his books.
If you do, the novelist's latest, a literary meditation on photographer Garry Winogrand, is the kind of cheeky, yet critical, approach to photography we've long...
Visions of Vigilantism
How two recent films, Eli Roth's remake of 'Death Wish' and the Safdie Brother's 'Good Time,' update a less-spoken promise of the American dream: instant...
In ‘Blue Self-Portrait’ Noémi Lefebvre created a space to breathe
Document talks with the French author about her breakthrough novel, Blue Self-Portrait, out in the U.S. this month.
Automated for the people
What does the rise of workwear in fashion say about our own ideas about labor in the age of automation and the Amazon warehouse?
Lucie and Luke Meier are in pursuit of minimalism’s soul
The creative directors of Jil Sander have brought their fusion of elite and cult style to the brand's minimalist halls.
The existential paranoia fueling Elon Musk’s fear of AI
The scaremongering by Musk and other 'tech-bros' says more about the exploitative business model of Silicon Valley than Artificial Intelligence's capacity to do actual harm.
Aggregators of anxiety
Artist Jon Rafman captures the anxiety unleashed by the aggregations of Russian trolls and Cambridge Analytica.
Amen Dunes makes peace with freedom
On ‘Freedom’, his fifth record as Amen Dunes, Damon McMahon makes post-modern soul music that stares down the borderless terrain of the self.
The end of fur as we know it?
As an increasing number of designers end their relationship with fur, we ask if the split is permanent.
Saskia de Brauw says the #MeToo moment has made her rethink ‘normal’
The artist and model on working in an industry looking to make amends.
Amongst the artworks counted as the newest detainees of the war on terror
The art made by Guantanamo Bay detainees and the photographs of Edmund Clarke, both on display in New York City this spring, offers new perspectives...
The tales of Duncan Hannah’s weird and raw New York City
The stately painter, whose attentive personality flourished in the underground of 1970s New York, tells Document the stories behind the stories of his collected journals,...
Listening to the ‘music of the future’ in the future
Irv Teibel’s ‘Environments’ created a whole new category of escapist listening in the ’60s and ’70s. Now reissued as an app by the Numero Group,...
Taking back New York City’s nightlife
NYC is finally free to dance without fear of crackdown again with the repeal of New York’s 91-year-old Cabaret Law.
Destination POV
In the age of Instagram, travel has become the pursuit not of a singular experience—but the same point of view.
