Would you dox a bad date?
...home page, adorable dog photos and acquaintances’ wedding announcements be damned. This algorithmic insistence on pushing content from “Are We Dating the Same Guy? New...
Caroline Calloway lies to tell the truth
It’s a tribute to Caroline Calloway’s strange talent that I wondered, briefly, if I should refrain from taking a pink highlighter to the pages of...
‘Ed Templeton: Wires Crossed’ immortalizes DIY skate culture’s heyday
...Ed: I don’t remember what the first page count was, but it wasn’t much bigger than it is now. It might have had 20 pages...
‘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...
‘Everything is a Self-Portrait’ centers the unending self
...by way of phone and email for Everything is a Self-Portrait, a 300-page exploration of the “unending self”—finding familiar in the unfamiliar, seeking reflections of...
‘100% (Ciento por Ciento)’ spotlights Patagonia’s storied landscape, and the fight to protect it
...partner organizations Fundación Somuncurá and Fundanción Patagonia Natural. The journey manifested in 100% (Ciento por Ciento)—an 108-page, hardbound, carbon-printed photo book, launched on Earth Day...
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...
Document Launches Spring/Summer 2023: Return to the Real
...it produced, turning fantasies of participation into present gratification. The same can be said for the ways in which culture travels by the printed page....
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,...
The noirish, alternative world of ‘The Biography of X’
...off-the-page, like that kind of promiscuity. I see no problem with it, morally. A person like X would maybe be using sex to access different...
You probably haven’t heard about the most egregious Oscars snub
...front-page reviews, and so on. If it’s any consolation, award shows like the Oscars seem to decrease in relevance with each passing scandal. With egregious...
With ‘Cyberfeminism Index,’ Mindy Seu snapshots a mutating movement
...trying to trust emergence, [but] that’s difficult to do for someone who is a future-focused planner. I’m not the kind of designer who is excited...
Chiiild’s sonic North Stars
...Next Life is the natural next page in a practice marked by soulful, psychedelic, genre-bending soundscapes—much-anticipated by his steadily growing fan base. Chiiild (born Yonatan...
Art Baja California’s inaugural festival is rooted in locality
...meditative attitude, encouraging among its artists and visitors an awareness of local ecosystems and communities. Rachel Garrard That encouragement of presence isn’t necessarily limited to...
Loris Messina and Simone Rizzo cultivate the SUNNEI state of mind
...and participate, lest they be crushed. It’s the perfect next page to the label’s nontraditional practice, which boasts a long line of runway shows that...
Model/Actriz’s ‘Dogsbody’ is an emotional map of New York
...songwriting more in terms of storytelling, or maintaining a poetic sense of ambiguity? Cole: I want it to be poetry; I want it to look...
For Soltera, music is a means of sovereignty
...beside me, she opens to a blank page and draws 16 rectangles, filling them in by fours: “This is what makes a techno beat.” She...
Perverted Book Club’s raunchy required reading
...pervert should keep on their shelf. Attached by Amir Levine and Rachel S. F. Heller “We love this book. It’s probably the one we suggest...
From heart-racing to heart-melting, Erika Lust’s Valentine’s Day film list will evoke your fantasies
...Disobedience by Naomi Alderman explores the story of Ronit (Rachel Weisz), who, after the death of her father—a leading rabbi—decides to move back to an...
Inside Document Journal and LOEWE Perfumes’s Fashion Week soirée
...Left: Jade Huber. Right: Aleasandra Caporaso. The Carry Nation. Left: Maike Inga, Rachel Marx, and Akeem. Left: Michael Seater. Right: Lior Cole. Left: Brock Colyar....
Clothes for the Chronically Online: Irreverent DIY brands are carving out space in the fashion industry
...labels are usurping Instagram feeds, being passed around in group chats and on meme pages. The unrelenting uniformity of ‘clean girl aesthetics’ and micro-trends like...
‘WHO’S WHO’ maps out New York’s cultural players, from fresh faces to old-school characters
...York Local Edition. The 276-page book—encased in cardboard, colored taxi-cab yellow, and stamped with black block text like a newspaper—profiles 75 individuals actively contributing to...
Word on the Street: Document surveys the crowd outside Givenchy’s Fall 2023 menswear show
...superfans quickly reached consensus: Fall 2023 was Matthew Williams’s best menswear season yet. The designer was on the same page: “It’s one of my favorite...
Tommy Pico and Carmen Maria Machado investigate horror as a reflection of the American psyche
Tommy Pico’s poems keep going. They’re not easily constrained to a few lines on a page; rather, they flow forth with momentum, reimagining the tradition...
In ‘Reproduction,’ Barry McGee finds sympathy for the junked
...images are immediate, casual, intimate, and anarchic all at once,” reads a statement from Aperture, the edition’s publisher. Page from Barry McGee: Reproduction (Aperture, 2022)....
Christeene and Narcissister are exploring life’s profane pleasures
...even in the sense of this interview—is something I want to manifest. I feel that we were on the same page with our sex magic....
Between illusion and the studied art of the tease, strip clubs are the last bastion of the American Dream
...a Crowd, Tunbridge, Vermont, 1975. In Striptease: The Untold History of the Girlie Show, Rachel Shteir traces the origins of the American strip club to...
In ‘Death of A,’ Kandis Williams invents recognition of the internal
...scene changes. Everything is too leaden, too literal, too slow to take flight. On the page, we’re thrown into a mind that’s falling apart. But...
Film families that are probably worse than your own
...men who spend their free time freeloading at weddings, but even a girl like Rachel McAdams isn’t worth the constant come-ons from her character’s treacherous...
Raw eggs, pink pills, and embodied identity: Online communities create their own proof in a vacuum of truth
...credibility. On social media, “proof of body” has become the de facto verification for all claims. Simply put, no one wants Rachel Dolezal to lecture...
A love letter to Naples, from photographer Brett Lloyd
...name has become synonymous with daydreams of summers spent on Italy’s southwest coast. Those fantasies have taken tangible form in a 135-page edition, published by...
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
...closing its doors. Now, Lak is paying homage to its enduring impact in The Colors of Sies Marjan, a 400-page volume published by Rizzoli. Rather...
At London’s Toklas, Document and Aries toast to mutual friends and 10 years of creativity
...friends and treasured contributors. Creatives of all disciplines—Juergen Teller, Venetia Scott, Richard Bush, Aivita Muze, Alice Lefons, Rachel Elliston, Paul Hanlon, Natalie Hand, Nicki Bidder,...
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...
Document Journal launches Winter/Resort 2023: The Fabric of America
...this issue traverses our nation’s vast and varied landscapes. Rachel Rabbit White positions the strip club as the ultimate American institution, tracking its history from...
Saint Laurent revisits ‘Sex,’ Madonna’s seminal text on all things desire
In 1992, Madonna released Sex—her 128-page coffee table book, wrapped in Mylar to resemble a condom, and stacked cover to cover with the Queen of...
‘Aesthetica’ is a modern tale of the timeless desire to be seen
...to explore its trajectory on the page. That’s what I mean by ‘emotional truth.’ I am emotionally connected to the material, and many of the...
Overheard at the launch of fashion personality Katie Grand’s ‘Tears & Tearsheets’
...intensive career as a creative director and pioneer of fashion journalism, which finds physical form in her latest project Tears & Tearsheets. It is a...
Oscar yi Hou makes art from the spaces in between
...symbols are paired with Chinese motifs, almost like each painting is a page out of a scrapbook. There’s sheriff stars, taijitu symbols, hidden text, and...
At Art Partner’s #CreateCOP27 competition, creatives make the global climate emergency personal
...and on the Art Partner Instagram page through November 18. Orilla Negra, Lizeth Lozano Palomino First place Peruvian artist Lizeth Lozano Palomino won first place...
Indie sleaze gets the cinematic treatment in the new documentary, ‘Meet Me In the Bathroom’
...The documentary takes place over five years. How did you decide which events you wanted to cover? Dylan: It was tough and really daunting. Taking...
For Porches, music is a memoir
...subject to growth and change. “If anyone read a page back in their diary they’d probably cringe; the fact that it’s public doesn’t mean that...
Jonathan Anderson subverts expectations with an open, anthurium-shaped heart
...the surface, and it will trap you in the perpetual rhythm of its blossoming glory. Earlier this year, Rachel Tashjian wrote, “Whether you like what...
Dr. Noki on rule-breaking, ’90s Shoreditch, and the rave uniform
...Zine is two t-shirts overlocked together, to make what I saw as a Shoreditch textile zine, instead of traditional paper one. I’d graffiti and subvert...
