
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...

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: 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...

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...

Bill T. Jones and Hank Willis Thomas reanimate creative freedom
...know connects to Caribbean and African traditions, becomes a global mythology. So now, this person who was from the Marcy Projects named Shawn is Jay-Z....

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...

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....

Daytripping: Vibe editor
Vibe editor By: Shawn Dickerson I never went to Studio 54—for me that was aspirational. Looking at it in magazines, I’d imagine I’d go to...

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...

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,...

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...

For Robert Roest, snarling dogs aren’t always angry
...skateboarder and artist Shawn Powers and Florida painter Motherseth. The group show features Roest’s series, Indoor feelings, and single-door kennels in your soul, which, like...

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...

‘How to Blow Up a Pipeline’ is a call-to-arms for a disillusioned world
...making amateur bombs. Then there’s Shawn (Marcus Scribner), a film student who—fed up with doom-scrolling—teams up with Xochitil and Theo, taking on a supporting role...

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...

Ariel Goldberg reveals the invisible history of queer community
...when the small one they have is dying. The curator led a conversation between JEB, Flash, Solís, and Shawn(ta) Smith Cruz, a co-coordinator of the...

Alvvays returns home in ‘Blue Rev’
...demo,” Rankin says. “We embraced the quirk of our first instincts.” The raw-sounding qualities of the record are not contrived. Producer Shawn Everett urged 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...

Margaret Qualley and Miranda July are embracing the power of pretend
...that I had kind of made the link that she was your child. Left: Jacket by Chanel RE22. Harness from Church Street Surplus. Right: Top...

Afternoon Song
Photographer Parker Woods and Document’s Senior Fashion Editor-at-Large Shawn Lakin collaborate on this fashion portfolio for Document’s Summer/Pre-Fall 2021 issue...

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...
