Flatbush Zombies are the hip-hop Santas of NYC
The rap trio brought holiday cheer to Canal Street with their toy-drive that saw all donations and proceeds raised for Camba, a non-profit which connects...
Meet the women leading Latin America’s abortion rights revolution
Document’s Sam Weir spoke to five female activists on the fight for abortion in Argentina and found a common thread between them all: an unwavering...
Young activists take UK government to court over failing to tackle climate change
After research suggests the younger generation will be facing the effects of climate change, activists in the UK are holding the government responsible.
James Welling on his photo ‘1538’
“The challenge is to create something I haven't seen before."
Martine Rose is designing for the ‘dodgy’ man of her dreams, one piece at a time
Ahead of her Spring / Summer 2019 collection, Document met up with the London-born designer to discuss intuition, music, and the unpredictable, flashy, always dodgy,...
Tomas Maier on the ‘raw, simple, and emotional’ works of Donald Judd
We asked the Bottega Veneta creative director about his fascination with the legendary sculptor, whose aluminum works are on display this summer at the Judd...
Amy Arbus on her photo ‘Julio Q’
'In those days, it was so much fun to take pictures of people because they were never suspicious. They were just honored.'
Who’s that in the garden?
The latest monograph from Aperture, The Photographer in the Garden, is a simple homage to the garden's delicate perfection.
Joel Sternfeld on his photo ‘After A Flash Flood, Rancho Mirage’
'This photo of the flash flood in Rancho Mirage evokes all of the disasters that are going to happen because of extreme weather. I wish...
Joe Gaffney on his photo ‘Sunrise on the Avenue Montaigne’
For Contact Sheet, Document asks a photographer about the unseen story of a frame that defines their work.
Tina Tyrell on her photo ‘Time Will Have Its Fancy’
Every week for Contact Sheet, Document asks a photographer for the unseen story about the frame that has come to define their work.
After the show, Atlein’s Antonin Tron heads straight to the sea
"I find a great sensuality in surfing itself, getting changed in the early morning in the parking lot, putting on the wetsuit and getting ready...
Erika Cavallini always has a very special good luck charm on hand for her shows
Erika Cavallini reveals to Document the simple rituals she follows before any show and the one item she must always have on hand when it...
On Loan: The sublime chaos of Egypt’s unknown surrealist collective, Art et Liberté
As the works of this lesser-known art collective come to the Tate Liverpool this month, Document spoke with the show's curator about the stringent political...
Overheard at the new Barkley L. Hendricks show, Them Changes
“The 1970s. Wow. There was a lot going on. That world doesn’t exist anymore.”
Pieter Hugo on his photo “Portrait #3, Rwanda, 2014”
"I like to think of some of these pictures as little gifts from the universe."
Before any Roksanda show, it’s a cup of tea
Document asks designers about the backstage rituals that make the moments before the first look bearable.
The unfinished business of William Eggleston’s Los Alamos
The photographer's pursuit of American restlessness in Los Alamos is a collection of images suspicious of finality. It opens at The Metropolitan Museum of Art...
The American politics of the radical presidential portrait
Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald's portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama are the latest entries in a visual tradition defining the politics of the present.
Lucid dreaming backstage with Sies Marjan
Sies Marjan and Sander Lak take Document inside of their varicolored fantasy
Andreas Laszlo Konrath on his photo “Untitled (Joe #11, Braces 1)”
Contact Sheet is Document's newest weekly installment on the story behind the images shaping our visual culture.
Tempting fate backstage with Vaquera
The New York label's FW18 extravaganza was equal parts Sin City and Sunday morning.
The Document Agenda: “An approach that is better aware of uncertainty is more reliable”
Uncertainty might help with making better decisions, a Vantablack house is built for the Winter Olympics, those who contemplate the future are better at waiting.
Ryker Allen looks at the upcoming models of New York Fashion Week Men’s
Seeing the new look of the next generation of models at New York Men's Fashion Week.
The Document Agenda: “Time is not at all something that is an immutable truth”
Director Agnes Varda sends the Academy of Motion Pictures a cut-out of her face, the first Britons may have actually been black, and Facebook’s algorithms...
The ‘Soul of a Nation’ comes to a small corner of America’s heartland
The groundbreaking Tate Modern show comes, of all places, to the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Arkansas
The cryptocurrency revolution begins to fray
Is one of the most-hyped advancements in technology beginning to wreak havoc?
Museums are gradually practicing the art of embracing women’s stories
Museums in the UK are removing stereotypical representations of the female form and replacing them with stories of female empowerment
The Vatican is looking to capitalize on Andy Warhol’s closeted Catholicism
A retrospective of the artist's "spiritual works" will be featured in a joint exhibition by the Vatican and The Andy Warhol Museum in 2019
PFW18: Viktor & Rolf’s couture is a meticulous cultural commentary
The Dutch "fashion artists" can't just do style for style's sake
Hobby Lobby can’t stop smuggling Mesopotamian artifacts
The Justice Department has requested another 245 artifacts smuggled out of Iraq
The Dutch Fashion Police are scanning the streets for Gucci and Rolex
Police in Rotterdam will soon be on the hunt for “Big Rolexes" and "Gucci jackets"
The epidemic ravaging the developed world? Loneliness.
Social atomization, separated families and lack of physical contact between people are creating a spike of loneliness across the U.S. and U.K.
FW18: Hairstylist Guido Palau reflects on male beauty at Lanvin
"What seemed shocking a few years ago, what you can do to a man and their hair, seems quite tame now."
The #resistance might be great for your career says study
Civic engagement is, unsurprisingly, a good thing for individuals
FW18: Luxury is the go with Fendi’s accessories for men
It's fitting considering the fashion house started as an accessories boutique back in 1918
Cape Town is at risk of running out of water by April
South Africa's second-largest city has nearly drained its reservoirs
Algorithms could aid in the successful integration of refugees
Researchers have produced an algorithm that processes multiple factors to formalize the perfect match between a migrant and a location
New York City reviews its “symbols of hate,” removes only one
The statue of Dr. J. Marion Sims will be relocated to Green-Wood Cemetery
Massimo Giorgetti and MSGM are Italian fashion for a new generation
"It’s fashion, but it’s important that it is still believable."
The latest health trend for affluent Americans is tracking sleep
And no one can say why they're doing it
CVS bans the airbrush on its beauty products
And introduces the "beauty mark" for brands that retouch
LFWM 2018: Edward Crutchley Isn’t a Menswear Company
Almost all of the British designer's latest collection is for everyone
Gucci Opens a Restaurant in the Latest Example of Fashion’s Enduring Obsession With Food
Haute couture meets haute cuisine
LFWM 2018: Cottweiler Wants to Make Sportswear to Obsess Over
"Sportswear has just always been something to do sport in and not something to look at and to touch."
Job Automation Might Cut Wages For a Lot of New Yorkers
A report estimates that $92 billion could be cut
The NYPD is Attempting to Obtain the ‘Entire Digital History’ of a Minor
The department has requested contacts, e-mails, history and other digital documentation
Converse Gives the Fastbreak Mid Zip a Utilitarian Update
Converse gives it's iconic shoe a makeover.
What Will Take the Place of Beauty?
Document alum Max Hirschberger sets the unlikely against the traditional in this web-exclusive editorial.
