‘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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
For Snail Mail, vulnerability is a double-edged sword
...I can’t read the comments. I’m scared if I look at my explore page and see something mean about myself, I’m very guarded about it....
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...
‘Kimi’ doesn’t belong on the big screen—but neither do most stories
...in the Multiverse of Madness—the very name of which sprawls across the page. When Coppola or Emmerich complains that all movies look like one movie,...
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...
Lucy’s extensive list of songs he’s cried to
...you off guard if you’re unfamiliar with his music: There’s “Turn Page,” which lists off Handy’s former teachers by grade in the chorus, and “Hot...
Inside ‘My Comrade,’ a time capsule of NYC’s legendary drag scene
...Reproductions and blown-up pages of My Comrade fill the gallery walls, alongside Simpson’s color photos from the same period. Since the show opened, Simpson has...
‘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...
The new coming of age, according to Ever Anderson and Diana Silvers
...2021, me giving these really long, cringy talks to the camera. [Laughs] But I’m happy that I saved them before deleting them off my page....
Mapping a modern trans bohemia in the borough of the flesh
...Right: Some of Drew Pham’s powerful essays linking the wars in Vietnam and Afghanistan through her family history are: “From Vietnam to Afghanistan—and Back: An...
Little Simz subverts the exposure of stardom while standing in her own truth
...music? Or is it more that it happens when it happens for you? Little Simz: I get bursts where I can’t take my pen off...
Ocean Vuong and Edmund White explore the experiential modes of queer writing
...over the blank page I find myself closest to my mother, because it is the posture that has supposedly calcified her form throughout my childhood...
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...
Sigourney Weaver and James Cameron evaluate the changing landscape of science fiction
...was on a bus for two hours a day. And with all of my in class reading behind my math texts, I pretty much was...
Document Journal launches Summer/Pre-Fall 2022: A Coney Island of the Mind
...right back to our roots in the printed page, ten writers explore the legacy of the late Joan Didion, whose singular perspective burrowed into the...
Iggy Pop and Ottessa Moshfegh examine the pathologies of contemporary culture
...narrative where you turn the page and you go through the steps. But it still rings a bell in the wider area of what’s good...
The false promise of payment plans sends Gen Z into debt
...something we all think we are worthy of, to some extent. Its “For You Page” both feeds you unexpected content and offers the potential for...
The risks and rewards of sex tapes—according to the experts, and everyday people who make them
...their LinkedIn page. The individual who sent the videos was trying to get back at the employee by sharing this private information,” she explains. “Again,...
Campbell Addy lets his photos speak for themselves
...with? Campbell: We’re all beautiful. I’ve worked to explore myself heavily and reflect it back onto the page. Growing older, I know now I’m ever-changing....
