Literature ‘Like Love’ guides readers through years of Maggie Nelson’s thoughtful work The autotheorist’s latest book is a best-of collection of essays equal parts academic and personal
Art Danielle Mckinney’s portraits of glamor On view at Marianne Boesky Gallery in Chelsea, the artist’s paintings are a gleaming tribute to womanhood and perfectionism
Fashion ESSX evolves the New York retail landscape At an iconic intersection on the LES, the multi-brand retailer redefines what it means to shop luxury Downtown
Above the Fold Jacolby Satterwhite is using the past to create art about the future ...flesh-and-blood reality. Painstakingly rendered and dense with creative detail, Satterwhite’s genre-bending work has been widely celebrated and featured in prestigious art world institutions, including the... by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold 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... by Morgan Becker Conversations 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... by Maraya Fisher Above the Fold Sarah Lewis brings her Vision & Justice project to Frieze New York ...exited Penn Station after being released on bail. A 2012 photograph of Braxton McKinney and Lavon Thomas by Bey hangs in Bey’s current exhibition at... by Ann Binlot Above the Fold Frankie Alduino captures the longtime residents of Westbeth Artists’ Housing ...a 1999 Grammy. Now, it’s at the edge of one of New York’s most expensive neighborhoods; The new Whitney Museum is just two blocks away,... by Ann Binlot Above the Fold Ray Moon does R&B on her own terms ...the intrigue of its title. Moon’s work is already varied. It ranges in influence from rap, to soul, to R&B, to house. She grew up... by Morgan Becker Above the Fold Artist Sam Moyer creates a personal narrative in abstraction ...collections of the Whitney Museum of Art, The Morgan Library, and Fondation Louis Vuitton. Moyer chose to name the sculptures Doors for Doris, after the... by Ann Binlot Above the Fold Finally, a Polaroid camera for going out ...Polaroid is partnering with a group of creators pushing artistic boundaries with the campaign “Go Create.” London-based musician Arlo Parks and Lizzo’s creative director Quinn... by Megan Hullander Above the Fold Justine Kurland’s ‘SCUMB Manifesto’ creates a vision of female artistic legacy ...was asked to speak about Andy Warhol for The Whitney during his exhibition. Valerie Solanas was my way of accessing that exhibition. Avery: You have... by Avery Norman Above the Fold 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... by Hannah Ongley Above the Fold Pacifico Silano’s ‘I wish I never Saw the Sunshine’ collages queer identity from the tattered folds of gay erotica ...this collection from this former curator from the Whitney who passed away. I found out about it because my therapist said, ‘Hey I have a... by Allie Monck Above the Fold Betty Images’s books for burgeoning leftists ...still have the URL but Rowling’s antics have definitely soured the mood. Real life is much more compelling right now. @bettyimagesIndustrialization =/= civilization #Marxist #leftist... by Maraya Fisher Above the Fold Bladee and Mechatok push the boundaries of pop with “Good Luck” ...the livestream a few hours before the launch of Good Luck, as I wanted to make sure I got the registration right. What I see... by Federico Sargentone Above the Fold Dior brings the tarot deck to life in an atmospheric film by Matteo Garrone ...qualities of a bygone era: devoré velvet, gold laminated gauze, exquisite embroidery, and indulgent textures that speak to couture’s enduring link to tradition and old... by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold Kim Jones taps Peter Doig for his latest art-inspired collection for Dior Men ...and tradition. “Christian Dior himself described the ceremonial entry of his models for each new look,” states the house in a press release. “[Ceremonial garb... by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold Lauren Wasser, the girl with the golden legs, is waging war on Big Tampon ...link between Rely and the surge in toxic shock syndrome cases (between 1978 and 1980 the CDC reported 1,600 cases). “Pat Kehm died because Procter... by Alex Hodor-Lee Documented Blueprints for a better world: proposals and manifestos ...sequences all of which will frame and encase the bioreactor and AquaPulse system. The first prototype is now scheduled to premiere at the Gwangju Biennial... by Document Journal Conversations American Artist and Legacy Russell are hacking the cultural mainframe for a nonbinary future ...July 2020, they digitally Looted the Whitney, replacing the images of art on the museum’s website with photographs of plywood in reference to the boarded-up... by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold Thurston Moore on his new album, the old New York, and always resisting the mainstream ...book editor Eva Prinz. Moore joins Document to discuss the link between space and creativity, how COVID is changing the music industry, and the process... by Avery Norman Above the Fold Grand River plays with limitations and freedom in her expansive ambient sound Music can color a season, and vice versa. Aimée Portioli’s new album as Grand River, ‘Blink A Few Times To Clear Your Eyes’, was meant... by Oli Warwick Above the Fold Meet American Artist, the artist who ‘looted’ the Whitney ...about. Alex: You ‘looted’ the Whitney. Can you explain how that happened? You replaced all of the art on the Whitney’s home page with photographs... by Alex Hodor-Lee Above the Fold Can’t find your favorite song on Spotify? Check the podcast section ...third-party “aggregator partners” to do so. Adding a podcast to the service is as simple as linking an RSS feed, via the podcast’s host platform,... by Benji Geisler At Large Is lab-grown the new grass-fed? A glimpse into the ethical future of meat ...Australia burn, it gets really hard not to draw a link between my food choices and larger climate processes. They’re literally burning the Amazon to... by Nina Burleigh Above the Fold Fashion from Isolation: 5 designers create looks using only household items ...the only window for communication with others. Our minds link with the world through these visible or invisible nets, while in reality, the wires build... by Shawn Lakin Above the Fold Dennis Rodman was Black boy joy before it was acceptable ...He wore a Cuban link chain and two pendants around his neck, two large silver earrings on the left and another one on the right,... by Kemi Fatoba Above the Fold Buck Angel and Rachel Mason select 7 radically queer books for Pride ...section. Her work has been featured at the Detroit Museum of Contemporary Art, The Whitney, and LACMA. Decades later the two would meet at Outfest... by Ann Binlot At Large How do we memorialize America’s gun violence epidemic if we can’t yet see its end? ...to build a national memorial to victims of gun violence in the United States. The Gun Violence Memorial Project was unveiled at the Chicago Architecture... by Oliver Wainwright Above the Fold Montez Press Radio brings us the best (and weirdest) of the downtown arts and culture scene ...with—like a bunch of your smartest friends hanging out and talking shop.” The Literature and Art of AIDS “The summer we started Montez Press Radio... by Caroline Reagan Above the Fold At 80-years-old, Harlem photographer Shawn Walker finally gets his due ...Whitney Museum of American Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, and the Cincinnati Art Museum after the COVID-19 crisis passes. The exhibition... by Miss Rosen Above the Fold Focus beats, dance theater, very good films: Polina Zakh’s online culture guide ...annoyed when people say that they are bored during Q—seriously? I think it means that they are boring, not that they are bored, lol. Here... by Hannah Ongley Above the Fold Art From Isolation: 11 Illustrators visualize our new dystopian reality ...from other people, but also from history and the material artifacts that link us to a continuum of human civilization that we will probably lose... by Liana Blum Above the Fold Onyx Collective’s love letter to New York’s ever-changing landscape ...band together. “I’m thankful for today,” Williamson says. “But this is heartbreaking, really, because we can’t go places, we can’t link up with each other.”... by Kedar Berntson Above the Fold Senior Dog Gathering Room is a 24/7 lesson in lounging like it’s an extreme sport ...talked about his quarantine time with the New York Times. Cop a cult Greek wine Not a digital event, but here’s a digital link to... by Steele Kratt Above the Fold Yannis Davy Guibinga exposes the imperialist roots of photography in Africa ...use of color to underscore the significance of its meaning in events and rituals. By combining color with hair, make-up, costume, models, and locales, Guibinga... by Miss Rosen Above the Fold ‘How we react in these times is everything’: designers are halting collections to make medical supplies ...her efforts, but she shared her experience over email. “Bunny sent me a link for @masks4medicine, and I called Hillary right away,” she told me.... by Callan Malone Above the Fold Art from isolation: 9 photographers share a microcosm of their immediate world ...evoke the way in which Club Quarantine exists online but is, for each individual who logs on, also an in-person experience, irl and url. Document:... by Document Journal Above the Fold 5 things to do on the internet this week, from DJ streams to voguing lessons ...Museums, musicians, and presidential candidates have adapted to this weird new world just as rapidly; pivoting from IRL to URL to keep us connected, informed,... by Hannah Ongley Above the Fold The Blossom’s latest music video explores how precious and haunted our bedrooms actually are ...career as a singer, songwriter, and producer. When we did link up, we laughed through it, and she uttered what might be a credo for... by Jordan Levy Above the Fold The DIY magic of Art-Rite, the magazine that redefined the 1970s art scene ...America, but they decided to go it one better and launch their own. Art-Rite, as it would soon be known, came into being when the... by Miss Rosen Above the Fold How LEYA’s avant-garde harp music provided Pornhub’s best film score ...to work on the project. I Love You (extremely NSFW link here) is three pornographic scenes, one featuring two cis women (Abella Danger and Kira... by Noah Berlatsky Above the Fold Olaf Breuning refreshes his cheeky creativity in the Hudson River Valley ...Swiss-born artist approaches his work with a heavy dose of humor, as in the 2008 Whitney Biennial, where he created an army by connecting teapot... by Ann Binlot Above the Fold Samuel Jablon and Mark Flood talk dirty words, hedonism, psychotropic drugs ...Whitney. Defend yourself! Samuel: I sort of came up through an activist poetry background. One of my teachers was Amiri Baraka, who was the Poet... by Ann Binlot Above the Fold Kean Etro invites us to his family hearth with this cozy, intimate collection The ambition to go further than those who came before has always been a driving force for innovation of all kinds. While many try to... by Jordan Levy Above the Fold Why the inevitable end of cash won’t fulfill its egalitarian promise ...a cashless form of payment like a credit or debit card or to link her smartphone—essentially, she can’t use or pay for these things at... by Cody Delistraty Above the Fold Michèle Lamy on taking her love affair with Comme des Garçons to the dance floor ...Performa 19, the eighth edition of New York’s performance art biennial which, dedicated this year to the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus school (the first... by Coco Romack Above the Fold Jordan Nassar’s new apartment exhibition lives between the Israel, Palestine binary ...the new Whitney Museum show, Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019, can speak to the historical interplay between Arab and Jew better than most. Some... by Aaron Hicklin Above the Fold Performa revives the legacy of Oskar Schlemmer, the Bauhaus’s avant-garde theater visionary ...Bauhaus. Last week, Schlemmer’s oeuvre was the source of inspiration for the gala celebrating the performance art biennial Performa at SIR Stage37 in New York.... by Ann Binlot Above the Fold Brendan Fernandes reinterprets Isamu Noguchi and Martha Graham’s ‘strange beauty’ ...1991, as both reveled in the act of creative collaboration. Document spoke to Fernandes about the performance, which comes off the heels of his participation... by Ann Binlot Documented Pope.L layers performances and haunted places to question dominant historical narratives ...place […] before I’ll be representationed like that.” In The Escape, liberation—and its counterpart, confinement—are symbols with many faces. Pope.L: Choir will be on view... by Suzie Oppenheimer Above the Fold Mitch Epstein confronts America’s psychological darkness in ‘Sunshine Hotel’ ...link in, be they American Indians at Standing Rock, humanitarian workers in the Borderlands, or native Hawaiians taking a stand against the construction of the... by Rachel Cheung
Above the Fold Jacolby Satterwhite is using the past to create art about the future ...flesh-and-blood reality. Painstakingly rendered and dense with creative detail, Satterwhite’s genre-bending work has been widely celebrated and featured in prestigious art world institutions, including the... by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold 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... by Morgan Becker
Conversations 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... by Maraya Fisher
Above the Fold Sarah Lewis brings her Vision & Justice project to Frieze New York ...exited Penn Station after being released on bail. A 2012 photograph of Braxton McKinney and Lavon Thomas by Bey hangs in Bey’s current exhibition at... by Ann Binlot
Above the Fold Frankie Alduino captures the longtime residents of Westbeth Artists’ Housing ...a 1999 Grammy. Now, it’s at the edge of one of New York’s most expensive neighborhoods; The new Whitney Museum is just two blocks away,... by Ann Binlot
Above the Fold Ray Moon does R&B on her own terms ...the intrigue of its title. Moon’s work is already varied. It ranges in influence from rap, to soul, to R&B, to house. She grew up... by Morgan Becker
Above the Fold Artist Sam Moyer creates a personal narrative in abstraction ...collections of the Whitney Museum of Art, The Morgan Library, and Fondation Louis Vuitton. Moyer chose to name the sculptures Doors for Doris, after the... by Ann Binlot
Above the Fold Finally, a Polaroid camera for going out ...Polaroid is partnering with a group of creators pushing artistic boundaries with the campaign “Go Create.” London-based musician Arlo Parks and Lizzo’s creative director Quinn... by Megan Hullander
Above the Fold Justine Kurland’s ‘SCUMB Manifesto’ creates a vision of female artistic legacy ...was asked to speak about Andy Warhol for The Whitney during his exhibition. Valerie Solanas was my way of accessing that exhibition. Avery: You have... by Avery Norman
Above the Fold 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... by Hannah Ongley
Above the Fold Pacifico Silano’s ‘I wish I never Saw the Sunshine’ collages queer identity from the tattered folds of gay erotica ...this collection from this former curator from the Whitney who passed away. I found out about it because my therapist said, ‘Hey I have a... by Allie Monck
Above the Fold Betty Images’s books for burgeoning leftists ...still have the URL but Rowling’s antics have definitely soured the mood. Real life is much more compelling right now. @bettyimagesIndustrialization =/= civilization #Marxist #leftist... by Maraya Fisher
Above the Fold Bladee and Mechatok push the boundaries of pop with “Good Luck” ...the livestream a few hours before the launch of Good Luck, as I wanted to make sure I got the registration right. What I see... by Federico Sargentone
Above the Fold Dior brings the tarot deck to life in an atmospheric film by Matteo Garrone ...qualities of a bygone era: devoré velvet, gold laminated gauze, exquisite embroidery, and indulgent textures that speak to couture’s enduring link to tradition and old... by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold Kim Jones taps Peter Doig for his latest art-inspired collection for Dior Men ...and tradition. “Christian Dior himself described the ceremonial entry of his models for each new look,” states the house in a press release. “[Ceremonial garb... by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold Lauren Wasser, the girl with the golden legs, is waging war on Big Tampon ...link between Rely and the surge in toxic shock syndrome cases (between 1978 and 1980 the CDC reported 1,600 cases). “Pat Kehm died because Procter... by Alex Hodor-Lee
Documented Blueprints for a better world: proposals and manifestos ...sequences all of which will frame and encase the bioreactor and AquaPulse system. The first prototype is now scheduled to premiere at the Gwangju Biennial... by Document Journal
Conversations American Artist and Legacy Russell are hacking the cultural mainframe for a nonbinary future ...July 2020, they digitally Looted the Whitney, replacing the images of art on the museum’s website with photographs of plywood in reference to the boarded-up... by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold Thurston Moore on his new album, the old New York, and always resisting the mainstream ...book editor Eva Prinz. Moore joins Document to discuss the link between space and creativity, how COVID is changing the music industry, and the process... by Avery Norman
Above the Fold Grand River plays with limitations and freedom in her expansive ambient sound Music can color a season, and vice versa. Aimée Portioli’s new album as Grand River, ‘Blink A Few Times To Clear Your Eyes’, was meant... by Oli Warwick
Above the Fold Meet American Artist, the artist who ‘looted’ the Whitney ...about. Alex: You ‘looted’ the Whitney. Can you explain how that happened? You replaced all of the art on the Whitney’s home page with photographs... by Alex Hodor-Lee
Above the Fold Can’t find your favorite song on Spotify? Check the podcast section ...third-party “aggregator partners” to do so. Adding a podcast to the service is as simple as linking an RSS feed, via the podcast’s host platform,... by Benji Geisler
At Large Is lab-grown the new grass-fed? A glimpse into the ethical future of meat ...Australia burn, it gets really hard not to draw a link between my food choices and larger climate processes. They’re literally burning the Amazon to... by Nina Burleigh
Above the Fold Fashion from Isolation: 5 designers create looks using only household items ...the only window for communication with others. Our minds link with the world through these visible or invisible nets, while in reality, the wires build... by Shawn Lakin
Above the Fold Dennis Rodman was Black boy joy before it was acceptable ...He wore a Cuban link chain and two pendants around his neck, two large silver earrings on the left and another one on the right,... by Kemi Fatoba
Above the Fold Buck Angel and Rachel Mason select 7 radically queer books for Pride ...section. Her work has been featured at the Detroit Museum of Contemporary Art, The Whitney, and LACMA. Decades later the two would meet at Outfest... by Ann Binlot
At Large How do we memorialize America’s gun violence epidemic if we can’t yet see its end? ...to build a national memorial to victims of gun violence in the United States. The Gun Violence Memorial Project was unveiled at the Chicago Architecture... by Oliver Wainwright
Above the Fold Montez Press Radio brings us the best (and weirdest) of the downtown arts and culture scene ...with—like a bunch of your smartest friends hanging out and talking shop.” The Literature and Art of AIDS “The summer we started Montez Press Radio... by Caroline Reagan
Above the Fold At 80-years-old, Harlem photographer Shawn Walker finally gets his due ...Whitney Museum of American Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, and the Cincinnati Art Museum after the COVID-19 crisis passes. The exhibition... by Miss Rosen
Above the Fold Focus beats, dance theater, very good films: Polina Zakh’s online culture guide ...annoyed when people say that they are bored during Q—seriously? I think it means that they are boring, not that they are bored, lol. Here... by Hannah Ongley
Above the Fold Art From Isolation: 11 Illustrators visualize our new dystopian reality ...from other people, but also from history and the material artifacts that link us to a continuum of human civilization that we will probably lose... by Liana Blum
Above the Fold Onyx Collective’s love letter to New York’s ever-changing landscape ...band together. “I’m thankful for today,” Williamson says. “But this is heartbreaking, really, because we can’t go places, we can’t link up with each other.”... by Kedar Berntson
Above the Fold Senior Dog Gathering Room is a 24/7 lesson in lounging like it’s an extreme sport ...talked about his quarantine time with the New York Times. Cop a cult Greek wine Not a digital event, but here’s a digital link to... by Steele Kratt
Above the Fold Yannis Davy Guibinga exposes the imperialist roots of photography in Africa ...use of color to underscore the significance of its meaning in events and rituals. By combining color with hair, make-up, costume, models, and locales, Guibinga... by Miss Rosen
Above the Fold ‘How we react in these times is everything’: designers are halting collections to make medical supplies ...her efforts, but she shared her experience over email. “Bunny sent me a link for @masks4medicine, and I called Hillary right away,” she told me.... by Callan Malone
Above the Fold Art from isolation: 9 photographers share a microcosm of their immediate world ...evoke the way in which Club Quarantine exists online but is, for each individual who logs on, also an in-person experience, irl and url. Document:... by Document Journal
Above the Fold 5 things to do on the internet this week, from DJ streams to voguing lessons ...Museums, musicians, and presidential candidates have adapted to this weird new world just as rapidly; pivoting from IRL to URL to keep us connected, informed,... by Hannah Ongley
Above the Fold The Blossom’s latest music video explores how precious and haunted our bedrooms actually are ...career as a singer, songwriter, and producer. When we did link up, we laughed through it, and she uttered what might be a credo for... by Jordan Levy
Above the Fold The DIY magic of Art-Rite, the magazine that redefined the 1970s art scene ...America, but they decided to go it one better and launch their own. Art-Rite, as it would soon be known, came into being when the... by Miss Rosen
Above the Fold How LEYA’s avant-garde harp music provided Pornhub’s best film score ...to work on the project. I Love You (extremely NSFW link here) is three pornographic scenes, one featuring two cis women (Abella Danger and Kira... by Noah Berlatsky
Above the Fold Olaf Breuning refreshes his cheeky creativity in the Hudson River Valley ...Swiss-born artist approaches his work with a heavy dose of humor, as in the 2008 Whitney Biennial, where he created an army by connecting teapot... by Ann Binlot
Above the Fold Samuel Jablon and Mark Flood talk dirty words, hedonism, psychotropic drugs ...Whitney. Defend yourself! Samuel: I sort of came up through an activist poetry background. One of my teachers was Amiri Baraka, who was the Poet... by Ann Binlot
Above the Fold Kean Etro invites us to his family hearth with this cozy, intimate collection The ambition to go further than those who came before has always been a driving force for innovation of all kinds. While many try to... by Jordan Levy
Above the Fold Why the inevitable end of cash won’t fulfill its egalitarian promise ...a cashless form of payment like a credit or debit card or to link her smartphone—essentially, she can’t use or pay for these things at... by Cody Delistraty
Above the Fold Michèle Lamy on taking her love affair with Comme des Garçons to the dance floor ...Performa 19, the eighth edition of New York’s performance art biennial which, dedicated this year to the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus school (the first... by Coco Romack
Above the Fold Jordan Nassar’s new apartment exhibition lives between the Israel, Palestine binary ...the new Whitney Museum show, Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019, can speak to the historical interplay between Arab and Jew better than most. Some... by Aaron Hicklin
Above the Fold Performa revives the legacy of Oskar Schlemmer, the Bauhaus’s avant-garde theater visionary ...Bauhaus. Last week, Schlemmer’s oeuvre was the source of inspiration for the gala celebrating the performance art biennial Performa at SIR Stage37 in New York.... by Ann Binlot
Above the Fold Brendan Fernandes reinterprets Isamu Noguchi and Martha Graham’s ‘strange beauty’ ...1991, as both reveled in the act of creative collaboration. Document spoke to Fernandes about the performance, which comes off the heels of his participation... by Ann Binlot
Documented Pope.L layers performances and haunted places to question dominant historical narratives ...place […] before I’ll be representationed like that.” In The Escape, liberation—and its counterpart, confinement—are symbols with many faces. Pope.L: Choir will be on view... by Suzie Oppenheimer
Above the Fold Mitch Epstein confronts America’s psychological darkness in ‘Sunshine Hotel’ ...link in, be they American Indians at Standing Rock, humanitarian workers in the Borderlands, or native Hawaiians taking a stand against the construction of the... by Rachel Cheung