Meet the fierce Texan who helped Dolly Parton and Stephen Tyler become fashion icons
Costume designer Antoinette 'Tony' Sales remembers trading accessories with Freddie Mercury, and the speed-fueled all-nighters spent sewing at the Gramercy Hotel.
Chula the clown’s hysterical path to self-discovery
The Mexico City-based performer believes clowning can address very philosophical questions.
Feathers, glitter, White Castle: Bushwig through the eyes of four drag queens and a pop star
Document dispensed nine disposable cameras to eight extremely generous queens and Slayyyter, a pop star who performed at the annual drag festival. Shockingly(!), only four...
The secret world of images not meant for human eyes
In a new exhibition at Fondazione Prada, Trevor Paglen and Kate Crawford investigate AI’s political underpinnings.
A brief history of protest and counterculture at Tompkins Square Park
Almost 30 years after the Tompkins Square Riot, a new protest headed by skaters preserves the sanctity of a downtown safe haven.
Gia Coppola and Kelsey Lu turn literary works into art
“You are unlocking a secret garden." A new exhibition in Los Angeles investigates notions of authorship, identity, and inspiration.
Gia Kuan, the PR powerhouse behind New York’s fashion renaissance
Meet the first fashion publicist everyone wants to be friends with.
‘Thinking different’ means looking the same—How the uniform went from working class symbol to Silicon Valley style code
The personal uniform may combat decision fatigue among today’s thought leaders, but it also indicates a dangerous problem with modern work culture.
Running towards enlightenment: District Vision values curiosity over cultism
The athletic brand finds a guiding light in Esalen Institute, the birthplace of ʼ60s counterculture and the Human Potential Movement, seeking an investigative and holistic...
‘Meet Me in the Bathroom: The Art Show’ resurrects rock-and-roll’s insurgent spirit
The Strokes, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, an actual bathroom. Lizzy Goodman gets the band back together on Bowery.
Paul Bui and Document present ‘Othered: the queer future of Asian-American identity’
West Dakota, K Rizz, DJ NK Badtz Maru, and others celebrate finding community and defying rigid gender expectations.
The revolution will be uh…uploaded by teens to TikTok
The home of Egirls and furries is now a hotbed of political action.
BTS, BLACKPINK, and…Jackson Pollock? The novice’s guide to K-Pop
Dive into the cultural behemoth with this immersive account of an outsider’s journey.
Ghetto Gastro teaches you how to make their award-winning watermelon granita
The Bronx-based collective employs a multidisciplinary approach to food as an act of cultural diplomacy.
Michele Saunders’ old school rules for nightclubbing like it’s ’85
From dance moves to Dexedrine: A Paradise Garage regular's guide to looking (and staying) fresh when your night begins at 4am.
Marie Tomanova captures the haunting discomfort of being lost in her own homeland
The photographer's new exhibition, 'Like a Dream,' reveals her first trip back to the Czech Republic in eight years.
Paradise Garage’s final nights: crying and dancing at the definitive rager of ’80s NYC
Michele Saunders and Tina Paul share memories and photographs from a weekend-long party where Grace Jones shared the DJ booth with Larry Levan.
Making a murderer iconic? A Charles Manson exhibit reveals the human psyche’s darkest corners
’Once Upon a Time in ’69’ is a fascinating and unsettling commentary on our cultural obsession with violence.
Moscow’s ‘regulated graffiti’ might be worse than its state-sanctioned rap
Officials attempt to fight counterculture from the inside, censoring street art by killing everything it stands for.
Toni Morrison remembered—in the words of Marlon James, Yara Shahidi, and Janet Mock
The giant of American literature has passed away at the age of 88—Here, five cultural figures describe the Morrison novels they'll never forget.
Remembering Lucien Bahaj—creator of the French bistro that became NYC’s last cultural salon
Artist Clayton Patterson on the man behind Lucien bistro, where everyone is a superstar.
On the ground in Puerto Rico, with 4 artists on the frontline of revolution
‘We know that it is not over’: Governor Ricardo Rosselló has finally promised to resign, but protestors aren't ready to go home.
In North Korea, contraband mascara is a weapon of resistance
Why black market beauty products from South Korea are a threat to the authoritarian regime.
Diary of a decision: a poet’s honest reflection on abortion
Reproductive rights are under threat around the world—Elizabeth Senja Spackman reminds us of their deeply personal implications, in a handwritten, illustrated account.
Got milk? In China, the dairy industry finds its savior
By 2020, China will overtake the U.S. to become the world’s biggest milk producer.
‘Viva L’Algerie!’: Amidst political turmoil in Algeria, New Yorkers speak out
“I want people back home to know that people here have their back...we don’t only have Algerian people, we have New Yorkers from all walks...
Nike’s legendary 1972 ‘Moon Shoes’ just sold for $437,500
Canadian businessman Miles Nadal completed his haul of 100 of the world’s rarest sneakers.
Who is Turkmenistan’s dictator and why is he always holding puppies?
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow—taking a note from Trump, Kim, and Putin—has been distracting us from human rights violations with puppies, horses, and a viral rap video.
Russia’s hottest influencer destination is actually a toxic dumping ground
Chemical runoff from a nearby power plant has made the "Novosibirsk Maldives" the perfect yoga selfie backdrop.
Pussy Riot’s face down with the Alabama abortion ban
The punk protest performers trade Moscow for Birmingham in a sold-out show today.
On the ground at Milan Pride, as Italy’s LGBTQ immigrants speak out
“I believe it is our responsibility as people of color, as LGBTQ+ people of color, immigrants, refugees, to repossess the concept [of Pride] and bring...
One night at ChokeHole, where drag performance meets pro wrestling
The southern-fried smackdown is taking drag culture back to its subversive roots.
‘Chronicles’: a fantasy anthology starring Ajak Deng and @uglyworldwide
Fashion photography's answer to 'Game of Thrones.'
Vintage shopping and stage diving with the women of Seoul’s underground scene
Jennifer Cheng photographs CIFIKA, SUMIN, and more in the clothing that they take to the stage.
Vampires: from gruesome outcast to tragic survivor
How depictions of vampires have betrayed our worst anxieties about sex, death, and disease.
Celebrating Swingueira, the Brazilian dance form imbued with narratives of race, gender, and identity
Barbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca bring Swingueira to an international stage at the Venice Biennale.
Why a feminist political organization from 1848 is back in the spotlight
Austria just got its first female chancellor—Here's how The Viennese Democratic Women's Association laid the groundwork.
Occupation, appropriation, and the Palestinian scarf at the center of it all
The story behind the keffiyeh, the traditional Palestinian scarf co-opted by Urban Outfitters.
John Waters shares very John Waters advice for the 2020 presidential candidates
At Marfa Ballroom's 2019 spring celebration at the Times Square Edition hotel, the Pope of Trash revealed why the White House needs a brutalist makeover.
Robyn Kanner revives the lost art of telephone conversations
The artist and writer discusses wanting to bring people together through a more open, compassionate dialogue.
An ode to gay t-shirts, from The Oscar Wilde Temple to The Wizard of Oz
As part of her annual zine ‘Gay Tees,’ writer Emily Manning goes through 16 playful and poignant t-shirts and the stories behind them.
“Supreme is Jesus”: meet the artist crucifying hypebeasts on a Supreme-branded cross
The artist spent Mother’s Day with a group of die-hard Supreme fans and a large Supreme-wrapped crucifix.
Document celebrates S/S 2019 at PUBLIC
Document hosted an intimate dinner and party to celebrate Issue No. 14 with special guest Liz Johnson Artur and the Brooklyn Museum at PUBLIC with...
Naomi Wadler and Yara Shahidi want to stop the adultification of black girls
The activists discussed the pressures of being young, black, and female at Harvard's Vision and Justice conference last week.
Edd Horder captures the elaborate uniforms of British social clubs
From choir girls to polo players, Edd Horder photographs a rarely seen side of British society for London Unstyled.
Bob Colacello captured the private hours of the 70s most public figures
How Bob Colacello became the one every A-Lister shared their secrets with.
‘The Village Voice’ nurtured New York’s preeminent thinkers—here are their untold stories
Writer Bob Morris reflects on the alternative weekly golden era with Hilton Als, Lynn Yaeger, Michael Musto, and Vince Aletti.
‘Fades and Braids,’ the short film exploring Asian identity through hairstyles
FAR–NEAR, a cross-cultural book series aimed at broadening perspectives of Asia, launches its second issue with a short film about hair and heritage.
Anna Delvey’s ‘delusions of grandeur’ and the gaslighting of an entire generation
Anna Sorokin—the fake heiress on trial for swindling New York’s elite—is being propped up as a symbol for millennials as deluded, entitled, and narcissistic.
