Nick Hornby: Grand Narratives and Little Anecdotes
...exhibition at Glyndebourne Opera in the U.K., which is a prestigious commission. Previous artists have included Tony Cragg, Anish Kapoor, and Antony Gormley, and this...
The Return of the Real
Photographer Rachel Lamb and stylist Venia Polyhronaki use sheer, opaque, and translucent garments from Spring/Summer 2017 to explore how layers of clothing can be used...
Escaping Reality: A Tour Through the 57th Venice Biennale with Patrik Ervell
...shredding and places them inside cross-hatching along a post-modern grid, his signature style. One of the fair’s youngest artists, Rachel Rose presents a new stop...
Portraits by Dana Schutz
...white page. They reveal an artist who is, at heart, a drawer. An artist whose draftsmanship has been upstaged by her vibrant color palette and...
Robin Broadbent’s Inanimate Portraits
...of the great things in life. There is something special about turning a page and discovering what is next. Since moving to New York, I’ve...
Literary giants Junot Díaz and Toni Morrison on their unwillingness to surrender
...writer I know. Toni—Speaking of slow, I’ve been writing a book for about two years now, and I think it’s wonderful. I have about 80...
Jeweler Gaia Repossi and Artist Francesco Vezzoli Observe an Unexpected Sparkle
...are linking: we have clients in common with important galleries, and this makes you think about who is today’s customer. I’m not a businesswoman. I...
A Trace of the Real
...essentials. It’s like a rare manuscript—precious and, yet, totally accessible—one that invites the viewer to flip through its pages and encounter a trace of the...
In a fashion world where realists are pulling dreamers out of their fantasies, Peter Dundas is leading Roberto Cavalli into a new era of glamour.
...often been referenced in his womenswear as well—Jimmy Page, Keith Richards, Mick Jagger, Jimi Hendrix, Robert Plant, Serge Gainsbourg, Gram Parsons—Dundas nailed fashion’s hot topic...
Alternative Vision: Martine Sitbon Discusses Testimony and New Tome with Partner Marc Ascoli
...It was very interesting to work with Martine on this project, and I think when you turn the page you can see the fusion of...
A Week in Revolt: Backstage London Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2017
...moments from the week. J.W. Anderson Taking a page from 16th century English costume, Jonathan Anderson armored his girls in slashed tudor sleeves this season...
“Richard Avedon – Moving Image”
...and Rachel Williams. Also on view is intimate footage of model Catherine Deneuve in rehearsals for the 1972 Chanel No. 5 series, and a 1973...
Boyd McDonald: True Homosexual Experiences
...of the Straight to Hell, a zine that collected readers’s “true homosexual experiences” beginning in 1973. Ryan Linkof, Associate Curator at Academy Museum of Motion...
Anthony Vaccarello on Discovering a New Life
...I have both. CHARLOTTE—I feel lucky too to have both music and acting. I miss one, when I’m doing the other. They don’t link into...
The Not So Simple Life: Buck Ellison on his solo show “Country Day”
...is about to some degree. But I want to pose that question to you first. Buck—I link this “disciplined body” to a certain class, so...
London Collections: Men’s
...this collection seems to have taken a page from American sports culture. The striped motif resembled that of referee uniforms, varsity style jackets dominated their...
Andrés Laracuente at 83 Pitt Street
...to me that there is a link between the wind that can’t blow in the fan work, and the grass that can’t sway in the...
Wolfgang Tillmans celebrates the promise of a blank page in this ‘free association magazine insert’
Over the past two decades, Wolfgang Tillmans has come to appreciate the promise of a blank page—or two or ten or 12. The “free association...
Olivier Rizzo: A Tribute to His Obsessions
...Inquisition; you cannot escape this dark past with the hunting by the inquisitors across the flatlands. In Flemish painting there is also the Baroque and...
Andre Walker’s Aesthetics
...where he still works from to this day. In this Document exclusive, inspirational women including Shirley, downtown girl Rachel Chandler, and Hannelore herself—with a suprise...
The Stroke of a New Era: Maison Margiela
...and silhouette. The Artisan can see beauty in everything; piece by piece, line by line, as the idea disperses like pigment across the page. Couture...
That Girl: Tavi Gevinson’s Transformations
...only have value, but can and will change the world—but to recognize that on every page of that monumental project there is Tavi: sure footed,...
Adam Selman and Marc Balet on pattern making, film, and pushing past the limits
...of struggle. It’s not in Vogue yet, there aren’t full page spreads yet, but for showing just four collections now, it’s been a huge success....
Joseph Szabo on Photography
As a high school teacher of photography, Szabo has an insight into the teenage world that other photographers have failed to grasp in such a...
Doug Abraham, aka @BessNYC4, Discusses Fashion and Controversy with Image Man Fabien Baron
...the Real Fashion Wear and Sniff Art Underwater, Doug Aitken Returns to the Real Fabien—I have to tell you, I really like what you’ve been...
Juliette Binoche By Francesco Vezzoli
...because we’re all on a journey, we all want a transformation. This existentialist possibility in any art form or medium is the purpose of it,...
Lady Bunny and Jimmy Paul on perfecting the art of hair and performance
...crunchdown in the cab is giving you a cowlick on your immaculate coiffure.” Lady Bunny: But there was kind of a blue eyed soul link...
Future, In Conversation With Italo Zucchelli
...Calvin Klein Collection, discusses the relationship between sound and style with musician Future. Nicholas—Let’s start by talking about how music intersects with fashion. Zucchelli—I think...
Valeria Golino and Francesca Marciano on their new film ‘Miele’ and living without borders
...worked towards minimizing that. We almost went in the opposite direction. We took every word on the page and converted it into our own language....
Robert Heinecken implicates himself in a vast system of sex, money, and power with his ‘comprimised’ magazines
In ’69, the Los Angeles–based artist Robert Heinecken (1931– 2006) disassembled several issues of Time magazine, lithographed a found image of a nude pin-up on...
Miuccia Prada and OMA still remember a time when art could scandalize
...that you could go page by page, or item by item, and come up with a value. The art market when dealing with individual works...
Sergio Zambon reinvigorates the ‘power pyjama,’ a favorite of Jacqueline Kennedy and Diana Vreeland
...about ‘60s influences and the label’s mix of European and American taste. Rachel Pidcock: You were kind enough to send us the letter from Jacqueline...
The enduring resonance of artist Jack Goldstein’s insular nihilism
Being aware of Jack Goldstein in his resurging posthumous glory of existential exploration and insular nihilism lends itself to questioning the greater picture of an...
Pure Murder: An American Honor Killing
...in Westchester. Online he claimed to be a satanist. As “John Psychedelic,” he put up a page on twistedsiblings.com (a Goth-oriented social site linked to...
The Source Family is one of L.A.’s most infamous cults: Isis Aquarian takes Document behind the curtain
...him shooting artists like Jimi Hendrix, Donovan, the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Jim Morrison, Jimmy Page and Led Zeppelin until the day she turned into...
In my own mind
...for the images to find their destiny even a commercial one. Rachel—Why make a wordless, picture based magazine? Maurizio— Pictures are the true international language....
From ‘Let Me In’ to ‘The Road,’ actor Kodi Smit-McPhee is brings a strength beyond his years
...boy, not yet a man. The pictures on his Twitter page reinforce the tension: in the black-and-white background snapshot, he’s a sweet kid in a...
‘Infidels,’ or falling in love with Marilyn Monroe: a work of fiction by Abdellah Tai
...His dirty linens, I washed. His dirty dishes, I cleaned. The odor of musk that we breathed at his place, I caused. The musk was...
Isaac Mizrahi unites his creative threads through cabaret
...really wanted to know. A page from Isaac Mizrahi’s performance notebook. The question that most intrigued me was why, with all the many projects he’s...
