Haunted mansions, homoerotic art: Rick Castro’s guide to self-isolating online
The underground fetish legend picks 6 spooky, sexy things to do on the internet this week
Life lessons from a former dominatrix
Meet Claudia Summers, a downtown rebel who learned S&M methods from Robert Mapplethorpe
Look inside ‘0-9,’ the radically experimental magazine that broke all the rules of language
The lost ’60s magazine that gave artists Sol Lewitt and Adrian Piper true conceptual freedom
5 things to do on the internet this week, from DJ streams to voguing lessons
Document's URL guide to staying cultured from your couch
Here’s how to donate protective gear to the COVID-19 frontlines
Mask Crusaders is calling on all artists, builders, and anyone else with spare masks or monthly MetroCards
The DIY magic of Art-Rite, the magazine that redefined the 1970s art scene
Featuring works by Genesis P-Orridge, Patti Smith, and Laurie Anderson, Art-Rite embodied the anarchic free-for-all that was Downtown New York.
Terry and Tricia Jones, the iconoclastic duo behind ‘i-D’ magazine, find salvation in Upstate New York
As part of Birkenstock’s 1774 collaboration series, Document Journal meets 10 creatives making the Hudson Valley a kingdom of their own. 40 years after its...
Cultural appropriation is bad, but we wouldn’t have hip hop without it
From viral dances to ‘American Dirt,’ author Lauren Michele Jackson explains the difference between creative evolution and cultural theft.
Only NY honors Peter Saul and the soul of New York City
The streetwear brand salutes the eccentric, anti-establishment art of Peter Saul at New Museum.
Unmasking Paris Fashion Week’s most controversial, coronavirus-fueled trend
Surgical masks dominated front rows this week—why I'm not wearing fashion's new favorite accessory.
I just kinda wish you were gay: my thrilling, painful dive into queerbaiting culture
As pop stars increasingly tap into queer aesthetics, our codes of recognition have been transmuted into accessories for capitalistic gain.
Inside the rowdy world of Brooklyn indie wrestling
Outlaw Wrestling brings The Southern Psycho and full body-slams to a Catholic school gym.
Vince Aletti teaches us how to build a legendary magazine collection
The writer and champion of print media makes a compelling case for spending more time on eBay.
‘Six Feet Under’ still serves our collective cultural anxiety
Why—in today's ‘golden age of television’—I turned to the surreal family drama that dominated television from 2001 to 2005.
Meet Ross Days, the triple fire sign who became Jeremy O. Harris’s latest muse
Kimberly Drew speaks to New York’s favorite SoulCycle instructor-turned-actor about his passion for social work and the importance of black, queer representation.
Natasha Stagg’s 4 favorite works of (sad girl) fiction and cultural criticism
From Eve Babitz to Elizabeth Hardwick, the ‘Sleeveless’ author gives a crash course in navigating your social existence.
frog design’s Moon scooters are one giant ‘LEAP’ for transportation
For Document's Fall/Winter 2019 lunar portfolio, the worldwide design firm imagines three products for life on the Moon.
The untold stories of Chicago’s tough-as-hell girl gangs, from a woman who lived it all
A former Lady OA member recalls the lengths she went to survive in a hyper-masculine world.
Why the Moon should operate on a ‘Hotel California’ principle
‘You can check out but you can't leave.’ Critic and sociologist Steve Fuller makes the case in this installment of Document's imagining of lunar life...
What will we drive on the moon? Lexus shows Document the future
For Document Fall/Winter 2019, we called upon culture's brightest minds to envision lunar life. Here are Lexus's seven proposals for luxury space travel.
RIP, Opening Ceremony: designers, DJs, and Club Kids remember the store that was more like a family
“In the new millennium, the city submerged into a cultural blackout period...Opening Ceremony offered an anchoring beam of light.” Walt Cassidy, Natasha Stagg, and more...
‘The L Word’ is back, and less relevant than ever
10 years after the problematic and beloved original, ‘The L Word: Generation Q’ still can't articulate cohesive queer stories. Matilda Douglas-Henry tell us why.
Behind the renaissance of Hollywood’s Sunset Strip
With his latest hotel, Ian Schrager revives LA's iconic after-dark playground.
Colette’s Sarah Andelman and i-D founders Terry and Tricia Jones were influencers before it was a job
The effortlessly cool trio reflect on curation, team-building, and 40 years of 'i-D' in Document's Fall/Winter 2019 issue.
Y2K, 20 years later: Document’s contributors recall the armageddon that never was
Michele Saunders, The Rapture’s Luke Jenner, and more recall the parties, anxieties, and lessons learned on the eve of the new millennium.
The hysteria-inducing, swashbuckling adventurers behind Louis Vuitton’s most well-traveled trunks
From Douglas Fairbanks, the eccentric, old Hollywood celebrity to Casanova orchestra conductor Leopold Stokowski, discover whirlwind lives of the original Louis Vuitton carriers.
Why museums are on the front lines of discovering the boundaries between semantics and substantive change
The politics of language is affecting art institutions, from honoring Ancient Roman same-sex relationships to reckoning with an imperialist legacy.
‘Influencing is heading into the void’: Natasha Stagg and Kate Durbin on the future of social media
Following the release of ‘Sleeveless,’ author Natasha Stagg joins Kate Durbin to discuss the Kardashians’ quest for immortality, ‘it girls’, and maintaining identity in the...
My uncanny experience reading Tegan & Sara’s queer coming-of-age memoir
‘High School’ inspires Matilda Douglas-Henry to meditate on her own memories of sleepovers, secret love letters, and the agonizing weight of queer desires.
Katya Bankowsky and Michèle Lamy wage a boxing ‘Battle Royale’ in the Bronx
The director of ‘Shadow Boxers’ speaks about documenting the violent beauty of boxing in her films. ‘I wanted to make a movie about a female...
A photographer’s 18-year quest to uncover Spiritualism’s radical feminist history
Shannon Taggart and Pam Grossman, host of ‘The Witch Wave’ podcast, discusses the egalitarian spirit of occult practices from around the world.
Dive into the waters of ‘Wet: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing’
We revisit the oddball ’70s magazine, which counted Debbie Harry and Mick Jagger among its cover stars, for Document Fall/Winter 2019
Peter Berlin, the original thirst trap king, revisits his erotic visual diary
The king-sized son of nobility's hot, spontaneous self-portraits are collected in the upcoming book ‘Peter Berlin: Icon, Artist, Photosexual.’
Roxane Gay, Gloria Allred, and Siri Hustvedt envision the law rewritten by women
The women discuss the 2020 candidates, reproductive freedom, sci-fi matriarchies, and the power of female anger for Document's Fall/Winter 2019 issue.
Danny Bowien, the mastermind behind Mission Chinese, reveals the secret sauce for a pop punk dinner party
The chef discusses the origins of his band NARX, late night meals at Denny’s, and his people-pleasing tendencies.
Brendan Fernandes reinterprets Isamu Noguchi and Martha Graham’s ‘strange beauty’
The Kenyan-born artist and choreographer on 'Contract and Release,' the performance he choreographed for The Noguchi Museum.
Maison Kitsuné brings Parisian luxury and Japanese minimalism to their first NYC café
After establishing their fashion line and record label, founders Gildas Loaëc and Masaya Kuroki set their sights on hospitality.
The fall of the Berlin Wall: a visual timeline
30 years later, experience the moments where everything changed, through the lenses of photographers on the ground.
What it’s actually like to own a marijuana dispensary as a woman of color in Colorado
“People think that dispensary owners are just rolling in dough, and that is just not the case.” A window into a broken, out-moded system with...
‘New York Club Kids’: Waltpaper’s dazzling ode to America’s first true influencers
Inside the iconic ’90s subculture with one of its founding members, who talks visual identity, self-branding, and passing the torch to Gen-Z.
Remembering the fall of the Berlin Wall, 30 years later
Peaches, Liz Johnson Artur, the infamous Berghain bouncer Sven Marquardt, and others share their memories of an international turning point in Document's F/W 2019 issue.
6 real-life geniuses wear Moncler Genius
Document talks to six thinkers and creators across food, art, design, and tech about redefining how we experience the world.
The radical feminist sex worker who photographed her clients at their most grotesque
Cammie Toloui takes us behind the Private Pleasures curtain at Lusty Lady Theater, a worker-owned strip club where men were made the objects of intrigue.
Fiddles on full blast, and not a drop of booze in sight: a weekend at Knothead Jamboree square dance
Josh Ethan Johnson photographs the wholesome revelry of a fading tradition.
Daniel Arnold, New York’s best-loved street photographer, takes us on a beautiful journey into his ‘crazy brain’
The writer-turned-photographer on his first solo show and why he sees the streets of New York as a perpetually exciting sandwich platter
Why do curators still equate the ‘queer experience’ with pain?
Suffering for our sexuality—In contemporary art, being queer looks authentic if it hurts
How Floating Points, producer and neuroscientist, made the perfect soundtrack for our existing chaos
Sam Shepherd discusses the unhinged, five-week process of creating 'Crush,' his most club-ready album yet
King Princess and Mj Rodriguez on the self-actualizing power of inventing a new persona
‘Queer people are the reason we have fashion’—the singer and 'Pose' star get real about giving credit, being crowned 'queer icons', and serving a greater...
‘For the skaters, by the skaters’: London’s roller skating scene is more like a family
Mototake Makishima takes Document into the rink at Fix8, with the roller skating community putting the culture first
