Usher on masculinity, memory, and building a legacy
...being that wants greatness for all people and wants to offer my best. I’ve learned to collect because we’re preserving something important. Put your words...
Bruce Gilden’s neorealismo
...the image for 100 years, it’s not going to change. If it jumps off the page, you know it right away. That’s an interesting question...
Do you know what your soul wants? Maya Martinez might
...these plays performed, it was interesting to read them on the page for a variety of reasons, one of them being the stage directions. They’re...
Mohammed El-Kurd refuses to perform for the West
...about these things, but I think these are conversations you keep to the group chat. I don’t think this is for the stage or for...
Mystery at the Grooms’: Hermès’ Workshop of the Imagination
...the kind of layered storytelling we try to build page after page at Document. What’s perhaps most moving is the sense of collaboration across métiers,...
The business of being Philippa Snow
...career of these unexpected inquiries. Her first collection, Which As You Know Means Violence, considers the link between pain and performance. Her second, Trophy Lives,...
The reclamation of beauty as an act of resistance
...Facebook page raising awareness among our community about HIV/AIDS, financial empowerment, and denouncing violence against queer people both nationally and internationally. It wasn’t until 2018...
Lexee Smith and Dita Von Teese on the glamour of imperfection and the in-between
...known as a fetish model, the modern Bettie Page in the early ’90s. I had the first pinup girl website that ever existed on the...
Scene report: New York’s literati clash at Alex Kazemi’s New Millennium Boyz afterparty
...was famous but even that sent me over the edge. “I don’t care how many followers your meme page has. I don’t care that you’ve...
Joe Alwyn and Jonathan Anderson find personal salience in historical narratives
...complete and tight on the page. And it’s heavy. I liked the scope of it. It was asking so many big questions—about the immigrant experience...
‘The magic lives close to the edge’: Lorde and artist Martine Syms on the beauty of the self
...of the interruption or the slippage. This feeling that you were allowing humanity to sort of bust through. It worked so effectively. It was so...
The Gospel of Cookie Mueller
...Pool Painted Black had the opposite effect. When I finished the last page, I was hungry for more. Cookie Mueller, née Dorothy Karen Mueller, was...
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...
Letter from the Editor: Document launches Notes on Beauty
...these pages that moves you—not necessarily toward agreement, but toward reflection. That’s what beauty has always done for me. It has destabilized me, challenged me,...
The two sides of techno-speculation in DESTE Foundation’s ‘Dream Machines’
...says in his discussion with the curators reprinted in the 224 page catalogue. “It has a mechanical, almost analog vibe.” In one part of the...
Critic’s Notebook: Fantasy, history, and the question of wearability
...for guests in a 200-some-odd-page manifesto that greeted us guests upon arrival to our seats). It was theater—mildly evocative of Oh, Mary! or the 1968...
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...
Iwan Baan’s ‘Rome — Las Vegas’ explores both cities from above and below
...The object is not a typical perfect-bound book. The paper is stacked, meaning images end up bisected and mixed up, running front-to-back. The cover and...
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...
At ‘Montez Got Talent,’ karaoke is a competitive sport
...called ‘queer rap,’” they remark, quoting their own Wikipedia page after Emily Allan performs Eminem’s “8 Mile,” “you are the Joan Didion of rap.” These...
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...
Larry Stanton: A love story
...can be a white page, a white stage, an empty gallery, or an empty apartment. It can be with paintings, photography, video, with performers or...
The cotton-candy lushness of Pucci’s Fun Fair
...random Wikipedia page. A line snaked through the maze of activity and printed bean bags for readings from a tarot reader who sat under palm...
Ballroom Marfa celebrates two decades of mystery and subversion
...Ballroom released an extensive anthology and archive called Ballroom Marfa: The First Twenty Years via Monacelli Press. The 320 page volume features stories from artists,...
Redefining intelligence through intuition
...to grab at—organic intelligence, or, as many call it, intuition? I can almost hear it rustle in disapproval. I resent this page. I resent its...
The Shoptimist: An unbearable uniformity of being
...perform somewhat autoerotic navel gazing disguised as exercise (Pilates) and nothing more. Look at Alo, a newish leggings-and-bras-in-“fun”-colors brand. The copy on their “About Us”...
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
...colors, much like the Bratz dolls. — I’ll end by taking a page from Washington Post fashion writer Rachel Tashjian, whose Milan Fashion Week column...
Fine Print: Did Michel Houellebecq steal Thomas Bernhard’s coat?
...for so-called signs of Bernhardian influence, such as one sentence on page six which runs for ten lines or another on page 101 which begins...
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...
The lyric monuments of Barbara Chase-Riboud
...Ted Weiss Federal Building, and her more recent odes to Josephine Baker, which drape silk from winding armatures. She also works on the scale of...
Chloë Sevigny and Eileen Myles disrupt artistic expectations
...spend that kind of money. It’s a nightmare for publishers. They like Bonjour Tristesse, they like a 100-page book. And I do too, I love...
Multidisciplinary artist Mickalene Thomas transforms before the lens for her debut as the indomitable model Mickey!
...journey. I’ve loved collaborating with really fantastic costume designers who pay attention to the words that are on the page and bring their artistry to...
Cate Blanchett and Alfonso Cuarón vitalize narrative potential
...But if it can happen on set, you’re all on the same page. It invites a slightly different way of working, which I really warm...
Jake Gyllenhaal and Hans Ulrich Obrist put language into action
...the page, stage, screen, and beyond. Shirt, tie, and belt by Tom Ford. Trousers and boots by Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello. Watch and ring...
Poet Precious Okoyomon and artist Olivia McKayla Ross are using time as a creative medium
...onto the page. Caribbean video artist, computer programmer, and archivist Olivia McKayla Ross is no stranger to the ecstatic. Alongside director Jazmin Jones, Ross works...
Fine Print: ‘The weirder and freakier the better’
...only books but the people and culture around them. Sophia: What is on the page is only part of the interesting things happening around books....
Jonathan Lethem’s ‘Cellophane Bricks’ collides art writing with narrative imagination
...literary exploits, including completing Donald Carpenter’s final, unfinished novel Fridays at Enrico’s and editing The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick, a massive compilation of the...
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
...laugh. But the series does blur lines—between what we see on the page and what we can expect to see in IRL cultural spaces. Casual...
Benjamin Fredrickson’s ‘Wedgies’ turn schoolyard antics into ass-up uncanniness
...Wedgies appears sexual but not precisely sexy. Colossal thighs and curved buttocks throughout the 90 pages bloat past the point of gym-ripped perfection and take...
Steven Cuffie’s relational image-making
...which had a Facebook page, and I reached out to them. Through that, someone who knew my dad contacted me and sent me this body...
Fine Print: Poetry by any means necessary
For his monthly column, Drew Zeiba traverses New York City in search of performances beyond the page...
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...
Funto Omojola’s cosmological reckonings
...and performed poetry, Omojola merges multiple languages and traces intergenerational linkages unfurling across Nigeria, Europe, and the US. Though featuring none of their own words...
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...
Stacy Skolnik’s genre-bending ‘The Ginny Suite’ is an experiment in post-pandemic poetics
...by fictionalizing one’s self on the page. Stacy: It’s a playful way to poke fun at the discourse around autofiction. Maybe that has passed a...
Zegna Artistic Director Alessandro Sartori and actor Mads Mikkelsen imagine new narratives of creative responsibility
...their Oasi Zegna project, an initiative that has been in progress for 75 years. The 224-page tome celebrated the brand’s long heritage around Oasi Zegna,...
