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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.”...
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...
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...
‘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....
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:...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
Daniel Arnold, New York’s best-loved street photographer, takes us on a beautiful journey into his ‘crazy brain’
...one was expecting you to be taking a photo. Even still, it’s pretty hidden. But it was that missing link moment where I could get...
Why do curators still equate the ‘queer experience’ with pain?
...it seemed, rested on the boxes I hadn’t checked. After visiting the 2019 Whitney Biennial, one image, a photograph by gender non-conforming artist Elle Pérez...
David Antonio Cruz, the artist giving LGTBQ victims of violence a place in art history
...rape, exploitation, and assault during their journey to the United States. “I call her the diva,” said Cruz. “I was really thinking about Whitney Houston...
Mark Leckey on ‘Fiorucci,’ folklore, and finding language for working-class stories
...North London, he’s trying to tease out the link between his forthcoming work and 1999’s Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore, Leckey’s ecstatic found footage opus spanning...
Pyer Moss becomes NYFW’s hottest ticket with its message of black liberation
...The Blood, the gospel choir that provided the show’s soulful soundtrack that included Donny Hathaway’s “Little Ghetto Boy,” Whitney Houston’s “Where Do Broken Hearts Go,”...
Gia Kuan, the PR powerhouse behind New York’s fashion renaissance
...who worked with Chanel, Armani, The Whitney, and more. “ I was really, really drawn to what she was doing,” said Kuan. “I actually had...
Nobody puts these bangers in the corner: ‘Dirty Dancing’ keeps on giving three decades later
...shot Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You” to the highest echelons of sing-along fame, and Saturday Night Fever, the film that shot John Travolta...
5 tips for mitigating the honey bee crisis—and urban bee keeping is not the answer
...dinner off with a beef tallow candle flavored with urfa biber, garlic, and herbs that dinner guests could dip their bread into. Monroe wanted to...
Paradise Garage’s final nights: crying and dancing at the definitive rager of ’80s NYC
...by the hottest artists of the era, featuring everyone from Grace Jones to Whitney Houston, Sylvester to Divine, Klaus Nomi to New Order, Gwen Guthrie...
Tremaine Emory of No Vacancy Inn on the 5 books that ignited his love of art
...and navigating the pain that brings a lot of the times, such as the images in this book which link directly to my culture. These...
On the ground in Puerto Rico, with 4 artists on the frontline of revolution
...the 2019 Whitney Biennial. “There are so many reasons,” she continued. “It’s been an accumulation of long years of corruption and abuse, and above all,...
An artist infiltrates The Hamptons’ cult of wellness
...year’s Whitney Biennial. The film, Human Design even begins in Restoration Hardware. “I got obsessed with the African wood carving that I saw in there,”...
2019 in photojournalism: encapsulating the stories we can’t afford to forget
...year, the 62nd of the competition, esteemed judges including Whitney Johnson of National Geographic and Barbara Stauss of Mare Magazine surveyed nearly 80,000 photo submissions...
