On the construction of beauty
For the inaugural issue of Notes on Beauty, Academy Award-winner Julianne Moore muses on the dual nature of public and private personas with writer Whitney...
Lexee Smith and Dita Von Teese on the glamour of imperfection and the in-between
For Document's Spring/Summer 2025 issue, the It-Girl choreographer and queen of burlesque discuss how childhood fascinations informed their life trajectories
Aesthetics in the abstract
For the debut issue of Notes on Beauty, artists Lorna Simpson and Glenn Ligon discuss the broader implications of what is, and where to find,...
Joe Alwyn and Jonathan Anderson find personal salience in historical narratives
For Document’s Spring/Summer 2025 issue, the actor and designer trace the transformative power of dress and drama
‘The magic lives close to the edge’: Lorde and artist Martine Syms on the beauty of the self
For Document's Spring/Summer 2025 issue, the musician and artist discuss 'Virgin,' finding their creative edge, and the importance of having the stones
Musician Solange and artist Wangechi Mutu transit beyond disciplines
In this limited edition cover story for Document’s Fall/Winter 2024–25 issue, the artists are joined by MoMA curator Thomas (T.) Lax to discuss water as...
The intimacy of beauty with Holli Smith and Pony Rivers
For Document’s Fall/Winter 2024–25 issue, the hairstylist and longtime contributor transforms her partner into an array of characters for his fashion debut accompanied by a...
Chloë Sevigny and Eileen Myles disrupt artistic expectations
The filmmaker and actor joins the writer to talk about performance, Provincetown, and loving the broken and pathetic for Document’s Fall/Winter 2024–25 issue
Multidisciplinary artist Mickalene Thomas transforms before the lens for her debut as the indomitable model Mickey!
To accompany this exclusive fashion portfolio in Document’s Fall/Winter 2024–25 issue, Thomas is joined by actor and screenwriter Lena Waithe to unpack the art of...
Venus Williams expresses generosity through style and sport
For Document’s Fall/Winter 2024–25 issue, the athlete, author, and designer joins Style Director Ronald Burton III to discuss the creative and connective potentials of self-inquiry
Cate Blanchett and Alfonso Cuarón vitalize narrative potential
The actor and director unfurl the cinematic story for Document Journal’s Fall/Winter 2024–25 issue
Jake Gyllenhaal and Hans Ulrich Obrist put language into action
For Document’s Fall/Winter 2024-25 issue, the actor and curator discuss the potency of the word on paper, stage, and screen
The many lives of Mia Khalifa
For Document’s Spring/Summer 2024 issue, the activist, model, and jewelry designer opens up about the twists and turns of her career and the political power...
Searching for tenderness with Kelela
Inside the artist’s main characters for Document’s Spring/Summer 2024 issue—those who pre-game in Santee Alley, dance behind the DJ booth, and taking up space
Decoding the ‘it’ factor with Abbey Lee
In an exclusive digital interview for Document’s Spring/Summer 2024 issue, the cover star details how she found acting and a new sense of creative fulfillment
Bill T. Jones and Hank Willis Thomas reanimate creative freedom
The choreographer and conceptualist challenge the categories and moralities of the artist for Document’s Spring/Summer 2024
The gospel of Schiaparelli according to Creative Director Daniel Roseberry and his mom, Fran
Fashion Critic-at-Large Katharine K. Zarrella gets to the heart of sartorial scripture with the mother and son for Document’s Spring/Summer 2024 issue
Jacques Vallée and Jeffrey J. Kripal challenge the limits of knowledge
The scientist and scholar discuss UFO sightings, AI utopias, and top-secret projects for Document’s Spring/Summer 2024 issue
Clarissa Dalrymple and David Velasco imagine an art world built on human connection
In conversation for Document’s Spring/Summer 2024 issue, the curator and critic recount the friendships, politics, and small graces of New York City’s cultural legacies
Maya Hawke and Kim Gordon dissect the poetics of commerce
The multidisciplinary artists untangle lyric metaphors and pop cultural myths for Document’s Spring/Summer 2024 issue
Viggo Mortensen and Ron Howard see storytelling as an act of collaboration
For Document’s Spring/Summer 2024 issue, the filmmakers ruminate on the transportive power of cinema, the art of interpretation, and the importance of honoring your audience
Erykah Badu and Michèle Lamy summon the spirit of the future
The musician and designer participate in a visionary mind meld for Document’s Spring/Summer 2024 issue, addressing everything from artistic truth-telling to their gold teeth
The eternal dreams of Jean Paul Gaultier and Simone Rocha
Wit! Romance! Femininity! The designers talk with Fashion Critic-at-Large Katharine K. Zarrella about the state of haute couture for Document’s Spring/Summer 2024 issue
Isabelle Huppert and Bruce LaBruce capture the profound power of deviance
For Document’s Spring/Summer 2024 issue, the actor and director discuss the cinematic language, fashion, and revolution in their filmographies
Raul Lopez and Kelsey Lu mine material from personal histories
The designer and musician reconnect for Document’s Fall/Winter 2023 issue, talking taste, dreams, island time, and where they’ll go from here
Ishmael Reed and Boots Riley on the art of cultural agitation
The novelist and the filmmaker talk Oakland, Basquiat, hip-hop, and propaganda for Document’s Fall/Winter 2023 issue
Sumayya Vally and Alvaro Barrington work between the folds of familiar and imaginative belonging
For Document’s Fall/Winter 2023 issue, the architect and artist assess the importance of embracing historical nuance to fabricate new futures
Barry Keoghan makes his own luck
For Document’s Fall/Winter 2023 issue, the actor breaks down the art of keeping out of rhythm and seeking comfort in destiny
For Joan Jonas, everything is ongoing
The artist joins curator Daisy Desrosiers for Document’s Fall/Winter 2023 issue, revisiting her metamorphic archive of performance
Down the splinter of human injury with Sandra Hüller and Joachim Trier
For Document’s Fall/Winter 2023 issue, the actor and filmmaker meet to unpack the art of anti-storytelling
In the confessional with Jodie Foster and David Sedaris
Surveying dialects, dogs, death, and dating, the actor and writer meet for the first time for Document’s Fall/Winter 2023 issue
Lucas Ossendrijver and Sarah Richardson step outside the fitting room, seeking the humanist side of fashion
Theory Project’s debut designer and Document’s creative and fashion director reflect on a decade of collaboration, and the future of their industry
For Pieter Mulier and Amber Valletta, luxury is carved from personal connections
The designer and model look back on Alaïa’s heritage, and examine the value of sustainability—for the Earth, and for style, and in relationships
At the feet of LSDXOXO, nightlife’s deity of dance
For Document’s Spring/Summer 2023 issue, RJ Glasgow divulges his aspirations toward idolatry, detailing his pursuit of the perversion of pop
Thelma Golden and Lisa Phillips reevaluate the function of art institutions as public spaces
For Document’s Spring/Summer 2023 issue, the museum directors meet to dissect the fast-changing cultural landscape, and the ever-evolving purpose of their line of work
ANOHNI and Johanna Constantine invoke art from apocalypse
For Document’s Spring/Summer 2023 issue, Blacklips Performance Cult’s founders look back on their makeshift, allegorical archive
Cillian Murphy and Geoff Dyer evaluate the cross-medium art of observation
Years ago, the actor requested the cinematic rights to the writer’s ‘Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi’—here, they revisit the proposal
Myha’la Herrold pushes the on-screen envelope, redefining the antihero
Resistant to the archetype, the actor is emblematic of a new generation of performers, committed to complex characters and storylines
Saoirse Ronan and Grace Coddington are artists in the craft of character-building
After their first meeting more than a decade ago, the actor and fashion editor come together, looking back on New York and life along the...
Pedro Almodóvar and Anthony Vaccarello are true disciples of fashion’s storied love affair with film
The filmmaker and Saint Laurent Productions’s artistic director reflect on 'Strange Way of Life,' and giving new impetus to its decade-old script
Pa Salieu is the driving force behind a new cultural narrative
For Document’s Winter/Resort 2023 issue, the breakout musician reflects on his many lives, from the frontline to international fame
Tommy Pico and Carmen Maria Machado investigate horror as a reflection of the American psyche
For Document’s Winter/Resort 2023 issue, the writers delve deep into our collective subconscious to reveal the inextricable link between desire and fear
Rick Owens and Ron Athey were born from the sociosexual underworlds of Los Angeles
For Document’s Winter/Resort 2023 issue, the design deity and extreme performance artist reminisce on the teen degeneracy that informed their creative trajectories
Emma Corrin mines stories of unbridled, uncensored self-discovery
For Document’s Winter/Resort 2023 issue, the rising star speaks to film’s capacity for turning speculative freedoms into reality
Lupita Nyong’o leverages language to depict the nuances of humanity
Upon her return to the ‘Black Panther’ franchise, the celebrated actor reflects on healing alongside her character for Document’s Winter/Resort 2023 issue
Kevin Abstract and Charles Atlas interrogate physical realities in digital fantasies
For Document’s Winter/Resort 2023 issue, the musician and the artist meet for the first time to explore the evolving principles and practices of video-making
Sofia Prantera’s Aries evolves hand in hand with youth culture
For Document’s Winter/Resort 2023 issue, the designer delves into the persistent allure of subculture and subverting the all-knowing algorithm
Hari Nef and Lena Dunham on the complicated communion of performance
For Document’s Winter/Resort 2023 issue, the actor and writer reunite in the name of authenticity—delving into their respective cults of personality
Nicolas Cage and John Carpenter are cinema’s most studious eccentrics
For Document’s Winter/Resort 2023 issue, the horror master and the movie star expound on a possible curriculum for the apocryphal Nicolas Cage University
