‘The magic lives close to the edge’: Lorde and artist Martine Syms on the beauty of the self
...that was still really emotional, but without sentiment. I wanted to see what was possible there. Rachel Cusk does that too. Martine: There’s a Lydia...
George Rouy explores the human body as both subject and medium
...viewer, a new object or the figure. There is this very direct link, so I can see why there’s that reference to Bacon, because of...
The Shoptimist: An advertisement in influencer’s clothing
...proliferates to 308,000 followers on Instagram and 611,500 followers on TikTok. Her link-in-bio redirects users to a dark oatmeal-colored landing page where you can shop...
The Last Dinner Party rewrites the rules of pop
...Make-up Rebecca Wordingham at MA+ Talent using Armani Beauty. Manicure Abena Robinson at Agency 41. Digital Technician Giorgio Lattanzi. Photo Assistants Ed Bourmier, Hayleigh Longman,...
Fine Print: Thirty-three top reads of 2024
...was correct. Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake (Scribner, 2024) I asked Rachel Kushner if she’d write something for the magazine. She politely said she was too...
David Gray’s ‘Wait For It’ renders New York City as a playground of light and shadow
...where the link may not be obvious at first, can give both of them greater meaning. Or perhaps just magnify the humor or whimsy [of...
Redefining intelligence through intuition
...link intuitive creation to an artistic gesture, Hildegard’s intuition was medicinal, botanical— she is considered by many as a pioneer of natural medicine and scientific...
Desiring literature with Nate Lippens and Kate Zambreno
...concept and the deadline (as I link, I think, my own recent and current work, including my own study of Guibert, to having a late-stage...
The Shoptimist: Put an end to the microtrend
...your consumption accordingly. It’s a good thing TikTok provides live shopping links for you to do so. The weirdest part to me is that the...
Fine Print: Did Michel Houellebecq steal Thomas Bernhard’s coat?
...serious as to be mocked by the narrator of Rachel Kushner’s recent novel Creation Lake wherein she describes a character working on an “agronomy novel”...
When post-irony renders real and fake indistinguishable, irreverence becomes a political weapon
...journalist Rachel Maddow in a 2019 MSNBC episode of The Rachel Maddow Show that focused on the messaging of the Trump administration. Post-ironic communications evade...
Fine Print: ‘The weirder and freakier the better’
...email to send it to both of us. I’m so excited. I’m reading Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner right now. It’s so crazy and weird....
Jonathan Lethem’s ‘Cellophane Bricks’ collides art writing with narrative imagination
The novelist joins Document to discuss his new collection of prose on the work of Nan Goldin, Rachel Harrison, and several others...
The Shoptimist: Myths, markets, and the business model of hype
...was released, Supreme’s myth bloomed within the downtown arts scene, creating a link between in-the-know artsy Soho chillers and underground skate culture where both informed...
Roving literary event Casual Encounterz prioritizes the pen over the persona
...Colm Toibin, Constance Debré, Chris Kraus, Alexis Okeowo, Hedi El Kholti, Rachel Kushner out to read with emerging talent in independent spaces. In this way,...
Benjamin Fredrickson’s ‘Wedgies’ turn schoolyard antics into ass-up uncanniness
...his name on the artist registry of the organization Visual AIDS. The dealer put Fredrickson in a group show at his Chelsea gallery alongside photographers...
Even undead, Joan Didion won’t back down
...founded the short-lived but influential magazine Grand Street, where Walter Hopps, Rachel Kushner, Hilton Als, and Deborah Triesman all worked at. Stein discovered Ottessa Moshfegh...
The mother and the monster in Catalina Ouyang’s ‘Trick’
...sheer size. An intimidatingly massive black metal sculpture with a wide ring serving as the base shooting two arms that link the air. The machine...
Hallucinating sense in the era of infinity-content
...“Chicago” as “Chicano,” Chicago being historically linked to gangsters and present-day drill music, the date suggesting some important historical event, the Michelangelo motif giving the...
Guerreiro do Divino Amor builds a Helvetian Olympus at the 60th Venice Biennale
...linked to decisions made in Switzerland.” Aesthetically, Guerreiro cites Brazilian carnival culture as a driving reference point (alongside video games). But he also clocks the...
The sincere glamor of Candy Darling
...date a trans woman named Rachel Humphreys before tossing her aside, an all-too-common trend of the time.) He also wrote “Candy Says,” the sad tranny...
Erykah Badu and Michèle Lamy summon the spirit of the future
...we have this in common; we feel we are one link in the chain. Another thing we have in common is we feel like everywhere...
Lucia De Vito’s contemporary take on Fabiana Filippi
...the nature of the Umbria region, which is known as the “green lung” of Italy. The company’s values are deeply linked with history, culture, and...
Can Botox help you live longer?
...treatments such as hormonal imbalance tests and fertility screenings are considered as essential to “wellness” as are services for Botox injections. The link between physical...
Fine Print: Can two writers handle real life together?
...a link that sounded compelling. Three paragraphs in, a pit welled in my stomach. There I was: post-party, coked out, foolish, and, of course, 22....
For Hugo Comte, abstraction is the highest form of flattery
...an experimental or home movie? Hugo: It is my first. I’ve written a bunch of short narratives for music videos that didn’t turn into anything....
Erin Grant celebrates her New York premiere with a night of cinematic illusions
We were given white roses before we descended. People filed in, slowly. The lights dimmed and the title card came up without introduction: Lemon Tree,...
For London’s newest class of designers, performance and wearability go hand in hand
...full stomach and fresh inspiration. Whether I’m sat on the bus or doing a food shop, I am constantly examining the world, seeing how I...
Sumayya Vally and Alvaro Barrington work between the folds of familiar and imaginative belonging
...how you perform this aspiration. Sumayya: Aspiration is about manifesting forms of imagination that link back to myths from different landscapes. But they also are...
Martine Gutierrez deconstructs the avatar, in conversation with Zackary Drucker
...Drucker knows the line that must be toed, pitting the paradigmatic against the three-dimensional subject. Self-narrativizing is inextricably linked to the documentarian’s process, most recently...
The next wave of indie publishing
...a particular New York crowd. The target of both ire and admiration from mainstream media, The Drunken Canal—which counted Dean Kissick, Caroline Calloway, Cat Marnell,...
For Romy and Charlotte Wells, joy and grief are inextricable
...you deeply respect and admire? Romy Madley Croft: [Laughs] Yeah, what if I was secretly horrible? When I got sent the link to watch Aftersun,...
slowdive finds substance in sound
...remember how it felt. And I’m glad I don’t feel that way anymore. Simon Scott: I think they all just really like Rachel—she’s like a...
Desired Scenes: Claudia Dey cuts to the core of ‘Daughter’
...life—sequencing them to make sense of them, to give them a form separate from yourself so you are no longer possessed or weakened by them....
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...
‘Bottoms’ flips the script on the teen sex comedy
...The second film from director Emma Seligman, Bottoms follows two lesbian best friends at the bottom of the high school food chain: The bold, bossy...
A preternatural attraction to cuteness
...The pop star’s lasting social impact is twofold: She taught an entire generation how to spell “bananas,” and became a cautionary tale on cultural appropriation...
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...
Candy Claws’s playlist for a road trip through the past
...human partner with a playfully psychedelic shimmer, as they venture through the Mesozoic Era. Bound by a shared love for Rachel Carson and natural history,...
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...
May Rio’s booklist for reinventing the damsel in distress
...is a heroine unto herself.” Second Place by Rachel Cusk “‘Some people write simply because they don’t know how to live in the moment and...
Water From Your Eyes is expert in the art of accident
...‘Barley’ namedrops 311. Rachel: That’s not on purpose. Nate: I thought that was on purpose. Rachel: You had it as some other number. Not that...
At Club Onyx, Adrienne Raquel documents the reality behind the strip club’s fantasy
...to exchange one’s sexual capital for cash: “After all, [strippers have] our own fantasy, too,” writes the poet, author, and former exotic dancer Rachel Rabbit...
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...
Myha’la Herrold pushes the on-screen envelope, redefining the antihero
...with Sophie, compelling Bee to Check… her… texts with a dying breath. As much as Bodies Bodies Bodies presents a character list of modern-day archetypes—vapid...
Tokens of a Type: How Levi’s AI models continue a history of human-averaging
...audacious PR campaign, which went to extraordinary lengths to conceal the identity of Rachel Roberts, the real-life model-turned-actor—and, three months prior to the release date,...
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...
