The superstructure behind Yiyun Li’s fiction
...linking and unlinking—a repeated thesis, antithesis, synthesis. As characters speak, consensus forms and is broken; ideas are rebuffed, solidified, re-wrought. Each story, each pair, each...
Motherhood at the end of the world
...It creates this really direct link between Antarctica and us. Alex: You’re very generous in handing over narrative shape to your protagonists—they almost narrate the...
The modern German fairytales of Christian Petzold
...German and deeply entangled in the wider images and cultural mythologies of Europe and America—albeit those which have entered into a new Millennial phase of...
‘Ed Templeton: Wires Crossed’ immortalizes DIY skate culture’s heyday
Aperture’s Ed Templeton: Wires Crossed speaks eloquently about loss and joy and oblivion, the stature and swagger of youth, and its link to the 40-mile...
‘Paris Memories’ probes the act of recollection, through its ties to community and death
...or ecstasy. The film also follows in a French tradition of psychological cinema, in which the perte de mémoire is linked to some spectral violence...
ANOHNI and Johanna Constantine invoke art from apocalypse
...ANOHNI commented, “This is not a missing link, it’s more like a missing continent. And it’s too late.” But if one tends to listen to...
With ‘Cyberfeminism Index,’ Mindy Seu snapshots a mutating movement
...I could respond to, and the form manifested from that. I’ve always loved collecting digital things, like links and artifacts, that I could then sort...
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...
A Spider and its Web: Designer Suchi Reddy on the inextricable link between humans and their environments
When Indian-American designer Suchi Reddy first got her start, the late Zaha Hadid was the only starchitect who was female and a person of color....
‘The Colors of Sies Marjan’ pays homage to the brand’s bold legacy
...those colors somewhere—but you’ve never seen them in such an elevated context, so you can’t really link it consciously. It’s only afterwards, when I say...
Nicolas Cage and John Carpenter are cinema’s most studious eccentrics
...one of the few times, really, where the video image and the audio image link up perfectly. John: You’re very kind. “I think you’re the...
Amazon is reading palms at Whole Foods
...the process. Tech policy analyst Frederike Kaltheuner suggests that this is the next logical step in “filling the gaps” of the Amazon empire: “There is...
On Model Mayhem, everyday people become the author of their own fantasy
...those characters––the most important thing being their membership number. That’s the key link. First, I approached them by email. It’s tough because they don’t let...
Photographer Suleika Mueller shoots architect Nevine Nasser in her Islamic heart creation
...came about during my doctorate, which explored the connection between sacred space and spiritual experience through practice. It was very timely! Through my research, I...
Searching for queer sanctuary in Porto
...before my arrival. I pored over the links that appeared when I’d type questions into my search engine like, “Where are the queer people in...
‘Spiderhead’ shows us what cinema gets wrong about the prison of the mind
...sexual activity, as you’d imagine. That’s played for laughs to some degree. But the script also links it to prison rape, a connection that highlights...
Ashton Sanders and Kimberly Drew on the inextricable link between art and chaos
...movement. We would study Linklater [voice progressions] and these different techniques. We would start our day doing yoga—sometimes just to be in our bodies. So...
The risks and rewards of sex tapes—according to the experts, and everyday people who make them
...on by?’ In my experience, and in the research I’ve consumed, there isn’t usually a causal link between what we like and why we like...
QAnon is calling the Will Smith Slap a deep state conspiracy
...purpose. Max Blumenthal, a decidedly pro-Putin journalist, managed to find a link between the Oscars scandal and the war in Ukraine, beyond the question of...
Welcome to the world of Nick Metropolis Collectibles
...over the world.” After 33 years of resiliency and faith in the collectible business, Nick’s livelihood is once again being threatened. This time it’s by...
Towa Bird is entering the mainstream
...expression? Towa: I feel like they’re quite separate. Fashion is another mode of self expression—but perhaps they do link more than I think. My style...
From the Archive: Margaret Qualley and Miranda July are embracing the power of pretend
...show, I’d seen so many little videos and pictures of her already that I had kind of made the link that she was your child....
Issey Miyake explores the natural world for Spring/Summer 2022
...its resort patterns; SWIMMING HUE has rich, solid tones, and lighthearted anemone hats. The LINK RINGS series is perhaps the most quintessentially Issey—totally hand-pleated dresses...
Michelle Zauner and Jiayang Fan on becoming their mothers’ artworks
...a link to a culture they had limited access to growing up in majority-white contexts, but also a Proustian connection to a rich emotional world...
Fraser T. Smith provides the Midas touch to London’s grime scene heavyweights
...garage—that’s where [Kano and I] really clicked. I used to DJ garage in my Craig David days, so that was our common link. And I...
Betty Images’s books for burgeoning leftists
...still have the URL but Rowling’s antics have definitely soured the mood. Real life is much more compelling right now. @bettyimagesIndustrialization =/= civilization #Marxist #leftist...
Bladee and Mechatok push the boundaries of pop with “Good Luck”
...the livestream a few hours before the launch of Good Luck, as I wanted to make sure I got the registration right. What I see...
Dior brings the tarot deck to life in an atmospheric film by Matteo Garrone
...qualities of a bygone era: devoré velvet, gold laminated gauze, exquisite embroidery, and indulgent textures that speak to couture’s enduring link to tradition and old...
Kim Jones taps Peter Doig for his latest art-inspired collection for Dior Men
...and tradition. “Christian Dior himself described the ceremonial entry of his models for each new look,” states the house in a press release. “[Ceremonial garb...
Lauren Wasser, the girl with the golden legs, is waging war on Big Tampon
...link between Rely and the surge in toxic shock syndrome cases (between 1978 and 1980 the CDC reported 1,600 cases). “Pat Kehm died because Procter...
American Artist and Legacy Russell are hacking the cultural mainframe for a nonbinary future
...time until we just had to link beyond our screens. American: Right! I had been following your work for a while, and I was really...
Thurston Moore on his new album, the old New York, and always resisting the mainstream
...book editor Eva Prinz. Moore joins Document to discuss the link between space and creativity, how COVID is changing the music industry, and the process...
Grand River plays with limitations and freedom in her expansive ambient sound
Music can color a season, and vice versa. Aimée Portioli’s new album as Grand River, ‘Blink A Few Times To Clear Your Eyes’, was meant...
Can’t find your favorite song on Spotify? Check the podcast section
...third-party “aggregator partners” to do so. Adding a podcast to the service is as simple as linking an RSS feed, via the podcast’s host platform,...
Is lab-grown the new grass-fed? A glimpse into the ethical future of meat
...Australia burn, it gets really hard not to draw a link between my food choices and larger climate processes. They’re literally burning the Amazon to...
Fashion from Isolation: 5 designers create looks using only household items
...the only window for communication with others. Our minds link with the world through these visible or invisible nets, while in reality, the wires build...
Dennis Rodman was Black boy joy before it was acceptable
...He wore a Cuban link chain and two pendants around his neck, two large silver earrings on the left and another one on the right,...
Focus beats, dance theater, very good films: Polina Zakh’s online culture guide
...annoyed when people say that they are bored during Q—seriously? I think it means that they are boring, not that they are bored, lol. Here...
Art From Isolation: 11 Illustrators visualize our new dystopian reality
...from other people, but also from history and the material artifacts that link us to a continuum of human civilization that we will probably lose...
Onyx Collective’s love letter to New York’s ever-changing landscape
...band together. “I’m thankful for today,” Williamson says. “But this is heartbreaking, really, because we can’t go places, we can’t link up with each other.”...
Senior Dog Gathering Room is a 24/7 lesson in lounging like it’s an extreme sport
...talked about his quarantine time with the New York Times. Cop a cult Greek wine Not a digital event, but here’s a digital link to...
Yannis Davy Guibinga exposes the imperialist roots of photography in Africa
...use of color to underscore the significance of its meaning in events and rituals. By combining color with hair, make-up, costume, models, and locales, Guibinga...
‘How we react in these times is everything’: designers are halting collections to make medical supplies
...her efforts, but she shared her experience over email. “Bunny sent me a link for @masks4medicine, and I called Hillary right away,” she told me....
Art from isolation: 9 photographers share a microcosm of their immediate world
...evoke the way in which Club Quarantine exists online but is, for each individual who logs on, also an in-person experience, irl and url. Document:...
5 things to do on the internet this week, from DJ streams to voguing lessons
...Museums, musicians, and presidential candidates have adapted to this weird new world just as rapidly; pivoting from IRL to URL to keep us connected, informed,...
The Blossom’s latest music video explores how precious and haunted our bedrooms actually are
...career as a singer, songwriter, and producer. When we did link up, we laughed through it, and she uttered what might be a credo for...
How LEYA’s avant-garde harp music provided Pornhub’s best film score
...to work on the project. I Love You (extremely NSFW link here) is three pornographic scenes, one featuring two cis women (Abella Danger and Kira...
Kean Etro invites us to his family hearth with this cozy, intimate collection
The ambition to go further than those who came before has always been a driving force for innovation of all kinds. While many try to...
Why the inevitable end of cash won’t fulfill its egalitarian promise
...a cashless form of payment like a credit or debit card or to link her smartphone—essentially, she can’t use or pay for these things at...
