Daytripping: Living in the gaps of being
In her biweekly column for Document, McKenzie Wark writes about dissonance—in music, at the party, and in one’s own body
ANOHNI and Johanna Constantine invoke art from apocalypse
For Document’s Spring/Summer 2023 issue, Blacklips Performance Cult’s founders look back on their makeshift, allegorical archive
Daytripping: Learning the art of letting go
In her biweekly column for Document, McKenzie Wark writes about a cross-generational spring party and the simple comforts of dance
Bad Words: Missing the Black Party, a pilgrimage site for gay men
The Saint’s legendary annual bacchanal shut down after 40 years, signaling a bittersweet transition in the landscape of queer life
Daytripping: The top 20 nightlife scenes in cinema
In her bi-weekly column for Document, McKenzie Wark lists her favorite instances of on-screen dancing, from the rave in Zion to ’60s sci-fi fantasia
Daytripping: Herding cats
In her bi-weekly column for Document, McKenzie Wark writes about raves in relation to service workers, and how she once got on the wrong side...
Document takes to Montreal, uniting nightlife and fashion with Holt Renfrew Ogilvy
For the second iteration of the 'After Dark' party series, cabaret bar Vol de Nuit set the stage for a night of transition and cultural...
Daytripping: Ghost dance
In her bi-weekly column for Document, McKenzie Wark tells a tale of two boroughs, two generations, and what we’ve lost and found through nightlife
McKenzie Wark on raving and the infrastructure of queer life
The writer meets with Document to discuss her latest book, the low genre of autofiction, and the makings of a good party
BOFFO makes its return to dry land with ‘Group Show: A Retrospective’
On Friday night, an exhibition-themed party brought alumni of the Fire Island residency back together, in the middle of Times Square
Daytripping: Dancing into the folds of time
In her bi-weekly column for Document Journal, McKenzie Wark writes about dancing at Berlin’s Berghain, the world-famous temple of techno
Daytripping: A dance to the music of time
In her biweekly column for Document, McKenzie Wark checks in with an intergenerational Downtown bohemia
Inside Document Journal and LOEWE Perfumes’s Fashion Week soirée
In the Sky Lounge atop New York City’s Virgin Hotel, Editor-in-Chief Nick Vogelson welcomed an array of friends and contributors for a night of revelry
Daytripping: How dancing can make you gay
In her bi-weekly column for Document, McKenzie Wark writes on the interpenetration of queer and straight spaces
Inside Marni and Carhartt WIP’s Campari-flush evening
At Men’s Fashion Week, the unlikely pairing united workwear with florals, and New York with Milan
Overheard at JW Anderson’s Milan Fashion Week afterparty
Between nostalgia, subversion, tomatoes, and gin, Document divulges what friends of the designer were hungry for
Daytripping: The irreplaceable soundtrack to MDMA
In her bi-weekly column for Document, McKenzie Wark writes of the gap between the body and the body’s image of itself
Daytripping: A night at the club, and tears before bedtime
In McKenzie Wark’s bi-weekly column for Document, two trans girls commune above the noise
Daytripping: The collective catharsis of ravespace
In her biweekly column for Document, McKenzie Wark explores the dance floor as an antidote to dysphoria
The Genesis of East Village Drag: An oral history of the Pyramid Club
Performer and hostess Linda Simpson, DJ Dany Johnson, and photographer Andé Whyland look back at a groundbreaking chapter in New York nightlife
Daytripping: A tale of two raves, and finding desire in the spaces between
In her biweekly column for Document, McKenzie Wark explores what we seek on a night out—and how we often find ourselves wanting more
Daytripping: The queer rave fulfills the promise of family that Thanksgiving can’t
In her biweekly column for Document, McKenzie Wark explores the catharsis of Halloween and the minefield of going home for the holidays
Inside Intima, the rave leading Brooklyn’s nightlife renaissance
“Intima means the innermost part of an organ. A party should feel that way, taking something intimate and imagining it as a space for closeness.”
It’s dream or die for Disco Tehran
Modeled off of Iran’s ’70s artistic scene, Arya Ghavamian and Mani Nilchiani’s nightlife project brings community and collective memory to New York City
The intimacy of nightlife, according to its curators
Chapel Bar’s Desta and the iconic model Liya Kebede on how to create a roaring room
The hedonism and kinship of New York disco, through the lens of Bill Bernstein
From Studio 54 to GG’s Barnum Room, the photographer captured the quintessential scenes of the nightlife era
As clubs remain closed, only radical solidarity will save the queer rave scene
Berghain may be too big to fail—but COVID-19 is threatening the survival of experimental nightlife spaces like WHOLE United Queer Festival.
Michele Saunders on the differences between the rhythm of big-city life and small-town pace
As part of Birkenstock’s 1774 collaboration series, Document Journal meets 10 creatives making the Hudson Valley a kingdom of their own. Moving upstate has offered...
Tracey Ryans on trading the glitz and glam of New York for rural Rhinebeck
As part of Birkenstock’s 1774 collaboration series, Document Journal meets 10 creatives making the Hudson Valley a kingdom of their own. Tracey Ryans, the entrepreneur...
Behind the renaissance of Hollywood’s Sunset Strip
With his latest hotel, Ian Schrager revives LA's iconic after-dark playground.
Grace Coddington, Marlon James, and Mario Sorrenti ring in the holiday season with Document and Public
Document and Public hosted an intimate dinner with some of art and fashion’s most distinguished names to celebrate the holidays and read Document Fall/Winter 2019.
Meet Amelie Lens, the Belgian DJ putting her fans before everything—including a sane sleep schedule
The artist spoke to Document about how she balances 8-hour sets, co-owning a label, and raving with her grandma ahead of the New York Time...
Hank Korsan and Tyrell Hampton take us through the Lower Manhattan party scene’s new guard
The generation that grew up on ‘High School Musical’ is leading the charge for chill, feel-good nightlife.
‘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.
Lanvin lets loose at Bushwick’s House of Yes
On Thursday night, the brand celebrated its new Soho storefront with Patrick Church, Richie Shazam, and Kim Ann Foxman. See all the evidence from the...
Party polaroids of Tyga, Pat Tracey, and Kelsey Lu’s blue eyebrows at the Lanvin Soho opening
Experience the christening of the brand's latest, mirror-filled New York home.
The Rapture’s Luke Jenner and DJ Justine D. look 20 years back at the last era of ‘underdog New York’
The 2000's, when the Strokes took photos in front of Kaws paintings and moving to New York was still career suicide.
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.
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.
Travel back to the birth of punk with the CBGB regulars who filmed it all
‘You gave up the rights for lawsuits when you came in to CBGB’: lessons from the legendary venue's heyday with Pat Ivers and Emily Armstrong.
DeSe Escobar defines the future of going-out glam
The Club Glam co-founder talks protests, trans visibility, and giving New York's parties a much needed dose of feathers.
Papi Juice on peers, parties, and pleasure
Adam Rhodes, Oscar Nñ, and Mohammed Fayaz discuss the challenge of throwing uniquely intentional parties following their most recent event at the Brooklyn Museum.
Paradise Found: Can this new club make Times Square fun?
Can the joint venture between ex-Studio 54 proprietor Ian Schrager and the bohemian nightclub House of Yes create a new Paradise in Times Square?
Amy Lamé gives voice to London After Dark
London's Night Czar is using legislation to preserve endangered art spaces; New York should take note.
Nina Las Vegas on how lockout laws are killing Sydney’s club culture
The Australian DJ vents about how much the nightlife landscape has changed for the worse since the introduction of Sydney's lockout laws.
New York introduces three bills to put an end to sexual harassment at clubs and bars
New York councilman Rafael Espinal, and House of Yes founders Kaye Burke and Anya Sapozhnikova, drafted a consent and awareness policy.
NYC Council Member Rafael Espinal continues to improve the city’s nightlife and the impact it leaves behind
With his new Agent of Change legislation, the Councilman from Brooklyn is looking to create harmony between New York's nightlife and the residents that have...
Drenched and rapturous, New York City’s Dance Parade celebrates a new chapter
With the repeal of the repressive Cabaret Laws that had been a thorn in the side of club goers for a century, New York City...
Taking back New York City’s nightlife
NYC is finally free to dance without fear of crackdown again with the repeal of New York’s 91-year-old Cabaret Law.
