Music 4 rising musicians leading today’s psychedelic renaissance Vinyl Williams, Teen Daze, Sunbeam Sound Machine, and Gold Celeste discuss how they are taking a 60s sound to strange new heights.
Fashion Kris Van Assche is luxury menswear’s hopeful romantic The designer discusses the freedom and terror of being Berluti’s new man.
Art Ming Smith’s ‘Strange Fruit’ reveals the specters of American history The photographer’s experiments in shadow and light reform gender and racial boundaries in a portfolio for Document S/S 2019.
Art Photographer Mitch Epstein on the incisive eye of his mentor Garry Winogrand As ‘Garry Winogrand: Color’ opens at The Brooklyn Museum, his former student tells Document why the emotive character of Winogrand's color photography still resonates today.
Above the Fold A closer look at Ai Weiwei’s selfie with the leader of Germany’s anti-immigrant party The Chinese-born dissident artist has long used social media as an artistic medium, so how are we to interpret his recent selfie with one of... by Caroline Christie Above the Fold Why has South Korea suddenly paused the K-Pop blaring across the DMZ? South Korea's decades-long aural assault on North Korea has suddenly gone quiet. by Caroline Christie Above the Fold Michael Pinsky’s latest installation, ‘Pollution Pods,’ deemed too toxic for the public The artist captured air samples from major cities across the globe in his latest installation, which has been deemed unfit for public exposure. by Caroline Christie Above the Fold First memorial to victims of racial terror opens in Alabama The National Memorial for Peace and Justice makes steps to right the wrongs of the American South. by Caroline Christie Above the Fold The costs of trying to touch the sky The question of building skyscrapers in dense urban areas is one we should be asking. by Caroline Christie Above the Fold British prosectors can’t tell the difference between art and ‘revenge porn’ But at least the artwork in question earned a top prize. by Caroline Christie Above the Fold Cynthia Nixon is pulling Andrew Cuomo’s strings After the actress-turned-gubernatorial hopeful announced her proposal to legalize marijuana, last week, guess who followed suit? by Caroline Christie Above the Fold Researchers are measuring your ego’s development by combing through 25 years worth of human language Researchers at Florida Atlantic University discovered that ego-centric words are used less as humans age. by Caroline Christie Above the Fold The doors of the Chelsea Hotel are being auctioned to support the homeless Auction house Guernsey's is offering bidders the bedroom doors the once contained Janis Joplin, Leonard Cohen, Jimi Hendrix, and Humphrey Bogart. by Caroline Christie Above the Fold Making sense of YouTube’s creepy relationship with kids The platform is increasingly targeting pre-teens with a total disregard for privacy. by Caroline Christie Above the Fold The UK and Russia are throwing unprecedented amounts of literary shade at each other Watch out, Sherlock. by Caroline Christie Above the Fold How Grindr and Facebook are networking shame The dangers of innocuous data have never been more visible until now. by Caroline Christie Above the Fold The Oxford English Dictionary essentially created a new word for gender nonconformity Trans* can be pronounced three different ways and represents up to four different gender variances. by Caroline Christie Above the Fold North Korea is waging a war against its most precious pastime: karaoke Kim Jong-un's government is seizing all "anti-socialist" sing-along machines. by Caroline Christie Above the Fold Why does the Trump administration want the Census citizenship question? Total erasure of immigrant communities. by Caroline Christie Above the Fold Land degradation is the panic-button environmental issue that will affect millions across the globe Up to 3.2 billion people are already at risk due to overfarming, mining, and urban infrastructures. by Caroline Christie Above the Fold Why are the attacks on the march for our lives so laughable? Conservative America is in a panic. by Caroline Christie Above the Fold A New York City bill aims to protect a worker’s right to ‘disconnect’ A bill filed by City Councilman Rafael L. Espinal would require companies with more than ten employees to refrain from off-hour communications. by Caroline Christie Above the Fold The Uber fatality highlights the plight of the American pedestrian The tragedy in Arizona took place at the intersection of economic inequality and urban planning's long-standing apathy for pedestrians. by Caroline Christie Above the Fold Imagining the end of Facebook, for the first time As the Cambridge Analytica revelations widen, the company's demise no longer seems like a fantastical possibility. by Caroline Christie Above the Fold On Loan: An observation on life in a British prison Document spoke with an archivist with England's Mass Observation Unit about a special artifact on life in one of the country's oldest prisons. by Caroline Christie Above the Fold Is Germaine Greer’s clear-eyed approach to #MeToo actually controversial? The prominent feminist author of 'The Female Eunuch' is thought to be against the #MeToo movement, yet a close reading of her words portrays an... by Caroline Christie Above the Fold Why does Facebook keep trying to censor artwork with nudity in France of all places? The platform has found itself in the past weeks waging cultural battles with several French users over the use of nudity in works of art,... by Caroline Christie Above the Fold The Document Agenda: “The inner architectural voice of the city” Los Angeles now has a design Czar, it turns out humans began innovating much earlier in history than assume, and the Vatican comes clean about... by Caroline Christie Above the Fold The Document Agenda: “An enchanted world now exists alongside the disenchanted one” Half of the world's wildlife may be gone in the next century, the devil is trending, and listening to your favorite song while studying isn't... by Caroline Christie Above the Fold The Document Agenda: “Learning tools for young surgeons” The iPhone may be a brain surgeon's best friend, meet the Cobalt Cowboy, and were Hubert de Givenchy and Audrey Hepburn the original influencers? by Caroline Christie Above the Fold The Document Agenda: “No deference to a good looking face” Wearing makeup may come at cost for women in leadership roles, Leonardo Da Vinci's notes on urban planning may be of use today, and DJ... by Caroline Christie Above the Fold The Document Agenda: “Living in the loudest cities” A survey of noise pollution across the world, the Frida Kahlo Barbie Doll is problematic, and Russia now legally recognizes contemporary art. by Caroline Christie Above the Fold The Document Agenda: “To dabble in the occult of orange” There is a toxic history to the pigment that makes the color orange, a shanty-town is home to the thriving Ugandan film industry, and is... by Caroline Christie Above the Fold The Document Agenda: “A bath in radioactive water” Doctors in the Czech Republic have been using a radioactive pool to treat patients, the field of neuroforensics comes to the courtroom, and the Vatican... by Caroline Christie Above the Fold The Document Agenda: “We must also acknowledge that art is owned” A VR hacking collective take over MoMA for a night, the first major exhibition of western art is set to show in Tehran, and one... by Caroline Christie Above the Fold The Document Agenda: “The power and importance of human touch” Holding hands might ease a partner's pain, polar regions encounter this year's spring weather before the rest of the globe, and Dolce & Gabbana comes... by Caroline Christie Above the Fold The Document Agenda: “Looking into a portable funhouse mirror” Japan rebuts cannibalistic fake news, satire could actually, maybe, be a political motivator, and selfies are warping self-perception. by Caroline Christie Above the Fold The Document Agenda: “A library of the 20th century” A pact protecting environmental activists in South America is set to be signed, 4G service comes to the moon, and the poetry collector behind the... by Caroline Christie Above the Fold The Document Agenda: “A curiosity hangs by the thigh of a man” A dangerous toad threatens the ecology of Madagascar, a painkilling alternative to opioids may exist in the brain, and the story behind one of the... by Caroline Christie Above the Fold The Document Agenda: “Discovering that life has somehow found a way to make it work” Researchers look at the impact of sea-level rise on the West Coast, there may be the possibility life on Mars, after all, and a debate... by Caroline Christie Above the Fold 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... by Caroline Christie Above the Fold The Document Agenda: “Some things have not changed” One writer explores masculine identity in the age of Trump, researchers are still confused by sonic attacks on U.S. diplomats in Cuba, and mathematicians uncover... by Caroline Christie Above the Fold The Document Agenda: “We thought there was one last wild species” There are no more truly 'wild' horses left on the planet, Elon Musk's Hyperloop may finally break ground on the East Coast, and Mr. Chow... by Caroline Christie Above the Fold The Document Agenda: “Solid light works” Iran indulges its reptilian paranoia, machines are making art that's fooling the human eye, and book reviews, argues one critic, only seem to offer vapid... by Caroline Christie Above the Fold The Document Agenda: “I think everybody should like everybody” Cape Town holds off its water crisis, for now, intimate Andy Warhol recordings recently unearthed, and one of the world's largest publishing CEOs says Ebooks... by Caroline Christie Above the Fold The Document Agenda: “How many times can you continue knocking on a closed door?” Iran's first and only female conductor on the country's political climate, Sotheby's helps you visual your taste in art, and is that really Trump tweeting? by Caroline Christie Above the Fold The Document Agenda: “An appropriate place for a bit of end-of-the-world hedonism” Dubai relaunches a debauched luxury development, researchers uncover new secrets about Picasso's artistic practice, and scientists now understand the need for sleep better than ever. by Caroline Christie Above the Fold The Antarctic’s icy spell becomes a tourism fantasy The world's most inhospitable continent may be the next hospitality hot spot. by Caroline Christie Above the Fold The Document Agenda: “A bridge between the minuscule quantum world and our macroscopic reality” Japan's stubborn immigration policies, the story behind the science photo of the year, and volcanic ash might be material of the future. by Caroline Christie Above the Fold The Document Agenda: “They could not escape time’s eraser” The Tea Party's racialized language studied, Tech CEOs are making an end-times retreat in New Zealand, and avant-garde artist Jef Geys died at 83. by Caroline Christie Above the Fold The Document Agenda: “A new way to participate in the growing experience” The very vocal future of hydroponics, Silvo Berlusconi's animal instincts are political, and a visual study of cultural hegemony. by Caroline Christie Above the Fold The Document Agenda: “The biggest impact to the landscape is human activity” Man-made climate change is measure in Kenya, Wolfgang Tillmans on his latest EP. by Caroline Christie Above the Fold On Loan: Loose change from the enlightenment This week, an exploration of the British Museum's archives yields a copper coin tells the story of England's ascent from the dark ages. by Caroline Christie Above the Fold The Document Agenda: “Blooming, buzzing confusion” Unseen beauty at the bottom of the Antarctic, Netflix's film still methodology, and the story of a mysterious radio station. by Caroline Christie
Above the Fold A closer look at Ai Weiwei’s selfie with the leader of Germany’s anti-immigrant party The Chinese-born dissident artist has long used social media as an artistic medium, so how are we to interpret his recent selfie with one of... by Caroline Christie
Above the Fold Why has South Korea suddenly paused the K-Pop blaring across the DMZ? South Korea's decades-long aural assault on North Korea has suddenly gone quiet. by Caroline Christie
Above the Fold Michael Pinsky’s latest installation, ‘Pollution Pods,’ deemed too toxic for the public The artist captured air samples from major cities across the globe in his latest installation, which has been deemed unfit for public exposure. by Caroline Christie
Above the Fold First memorial to victims of racial terror opens in Alabama The National Memorial for Peace and Justice makes steps to right the wrongs of the American South. by Caroline Christie
Above the Fold The costs of trying to touch the sky The question of building skyscrapers in dense urban areas is one we should be asking. by Caroline Christie
Above the Fold British prosectors can’t tell the difference between art and ‘revenge porn’ But at least the artwork in question earned a top prize. by Caroline Christie
Above the Fold Cynthia Nixon is pulling Andrew Cuomo’s strings After the actress-turned-gubernatorial hopeful announced her proposal to legalize marijuana, last week, guess who followed suit? by Caroline Christie
Above the Fold Researchers are measuring your ego’s development by combing through 25 years worth of human language Researchers at Florida Atlantic University discovered that ego-centric words are used less as humans age. by Caroline Christie
Above the Fold The doors of the Chelsea Hotel are being auctioned to support the homeless Auction house Guernsey's is offering bidders the bedroom doors the once contained Janis Joplin, Leonard Cohen, Jimi Hendrix, and Humphrey Bogart. by Caroline Christie
Above the Fold Making sense of YouTube’s creepy relationship with kids The platform is increasingly targeting pre-teens with a total disregard for privacy. by Caroline Christie
Above the Fold The UK and Russia are throwing unprecedented amounts of literary shade at each other Watch out, Sherlock. by Caroline Christie
Above the Fold How Grindr and Facebook are networking shame The dangers of innocuous data have never been more visible until now. by Caroline Christie
Above the Fold The Oxford English Dictionary essentially created a new word for gender nonconformity Trans* can be pronounced three different ways and represents up to four different gender variances. by Caroline Christie
Above the Fold North Korea is waging a war against its most precious pastime: karaoke Kim Jong-un's government is seizing all "anti-socialist" sing-along machines. by Caroline Christie
Above the Fold Why does the Trump administration want the Census citizenship question? Total erasure of immigrant communities. by Caroline Christie
Above the Fold Land degradation is the panic-button environmental issue that will affect millions across the globe Up to 3.2 billion people are already at risk due to overfarming, mining, and urban infrastructures. by Caroline Christie
Above the Fold Why are the attacks on the march for our lives so laughable? Conservative America is in a panic. by Caroline Christie
Above the Fold A New York City bill aims to protect a worker’s right to ‘disconnect’ A bill filed by City Councilman Rafael L. Espinal would require companies with more than ten employees to refrain from off-hour communications. by Caroline Christie
Above the Fold The Uber fatality highlights the plight of the American pedestrian The tragedy in Arizona took place at the intersection of economic inequality and urban planning's long-standing apathy for pedestrians. by Caroline Christie
Above the Fold Imagining the end of Facebook, for the first time As the Cambridge Analytica revelations widen, the company's demise no longer seems like a fantastical possibility. by Caroline Christie
Above the Fold On Loan: An observation on life in a British prison Document spoke with an archivist with England's Mass Observation Unit about a special artifact on life in one of the country's oldest prisons. by Caroline Christie
Above the Fold Is Germaine Greer’s clear-eyed approach to #MeToo actually controversial? The prominent feminist author of 'The Female Eunuch' is thought to be against the #MeToo movement, yet a close reading of her words portrays an... by Caroline Christie
Above the Fold Why does Facebook keep trying to censor artwork with nudity in France of all places? The platform has found itself in the past weeks waging cultural battles with several French users over the use of nudity in works of art,... by Caroline Christie
Above the Fold The Document Agenda: “The inner architectural voice of the city” Los Angeles now has a design Czar, it turns out humans began innovating much earlier in history than assume, and the Vatican comes clean about... by Caroline Christie
Above the Fold The Document Agenda: “An enchanted world now exists alongside the disenchanted one” Half of the world's wildlife may be gone in the next century, the devil is trending, and listening to your favorite song while studying isn't... by Caroline Christie
Above the Fold The Document Agenda: “Learning tools for young surgeons” The iPhone may be a brain surgeon's best friend, meet the Cobalt Cowboy, and were Hubert de Givenchy and Audrey Hepburn the original influencers? by Caroline Christie
Above the Fold The Document Agenda: “No deference to a good looking face” Wearing makeup may come at cost for women in leadership roles, Leonardo Da Vinci's notes on urban planning may be of use today, and DJ... by Caroline Christie
Above the Fold The Document Agenda: “Living in the loudest cities” A survey of noise pollution across the world, the Frida Kahlo Barbie Doll is problematic, and Russia now legally recognizes contemporary art. by Caroline Christie
Above the Fold The Document Agenda: “To dabble in the occult of orange” There is a toxic history to the pigment that makes the color orange, a shanty-town is home to the thriving Ugandan film industry, and is... by Caroline Christie
Above the Fold The Document Agenda: “A bath in radioactive water” Doctors in the Czech Republic have been using a radioactive pool to treat patients, the field of neuroforensics comes to the courtroom, and the Vatican... by Caroline Christie
Above the Fold The Document Agenda: “We must also acknowledge that art is owned” A VR hacking collective take over MoMA for a night, the first major exhibition of western art is set to show in Tehran, and one... by Caroline Christie
Above the Fold The Document Agenda: “The power and importance of human touch” Holding hands might ease a partner's pain, polar regions encounter this year's spring weather before the rest of the globe, and Dolce & Gabbana comes... by Caroline Christie
Above the Fold The Document Agenda: “Looking into a portable funhouse mirror” Japan rebuts cannibalistic fake news, satire could actually, maybe, be a political motivator, and selfies are warping self-perception. by Caroline Christie
Above the Fold The Document Agenda: “A library of the 20th century” A pact protecting environmental activists in South America is set to be signed, 4G service comes to the moon, and the poetry collector behind the... by Caroline Christie
Above the Fold The Document Agenda: “A curiosity hangs by the thigh of a man” A dangerous toad threatens the ecology of Madagascar, a painkilling alternative to opioids may exist in the brain, and the story behind one of the... by Caroline Christie
Above the Fold The Document Agenda: “Discovering that life has somehow found a way to make it work” Researchers look at the impact of sea-level rise on the West Coast, there may be the possibility life on Mars, after all, and a debate... by Caroline Christie
Above the Fold 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... by Caroline Christie
Above the Fold The Document Agenda: “Some things have not changed” One writer explores masculine identity in the age of Trump, researchers are still confused by sonic attacks on U.S. diplomats in Cuba, and mathematicians uncover... by Caroline Christie
Above the Fold The Document Agenda: “We thought there was one last wild species” There are no more truly 'wild' horses left on the planet, Elon Musk's Hyperloop may finally break ground on the East Coast, and Mr. Chow... by Caroline Christie
Above the Fold The Document Agenda: “Solid light works” Iran indulges its reptilian paranoia, machines are making art that's fooling the human eye, and book reviews, argues one critic, only seem to offer vapid... by Caroline Christie
Above the Fold The Document Agenda: “I think everybody should like everybody” Cape Town holds off its water crisis, for now, intimate Andy Warhol recordings recently unearthed, and one of the world's largest publishing CEOs says Ebooks... by Caroline Christie
Above the Fold The Document Agenda: “How many times can you continue knocking on a closed door?” Iran's first and only female conductor on the country's political climate, Sotheby's helps you visual your taste in art, and is that really Trump tweeting? by Caroline Christie
Above the Fold The Document Agenda: “An appropriate place for a bit of end-of-the-world hedonism” Dubai relaunches a debauched luxury development, researchers uncover new secrets about Picasso's artistic practice, and scientists now understand the need for sleep better than ever. by Caroline Christie
Above the Fold The Antarctic’s icy spell becomes a tourism fantasy The world's most inhospitable continent may be the next hospitality hot spot. by Caroline Christie
Above the Fold The Document Agenda: “A bridge between the minuscule quantum world and our macroscopic reality” Japan's stubborn immigration policies, the story behind the science photo of the year, and volcanic ash might be material of the future. by Caroline Christie
Above the Fold The Document Agenda: “They could not escape time’s eraser” The Tea Party's racialized language studied, Tech CEOs are making an end-times retreat in New Zealand, and avant-garde artist Jef Geys died at 83. by Caroline Christie
Above the Fold The Document Agenda: “A new way to participate in the growing experience” The very vocal future of hydroponics, Silvo Berlusconi's animal instincts are political, and a visual study of cultural hegemony. by Caroline Christie
Above the Fold The Document Agenda: “The biggest impact to the landscape is human activity” Man-made climate change is measure in Kenya, Wolfgang Tillmans on his latest EP. by Caroline Christie
Above the Fold On Loan: Loose change from the enlightenment This week, an exploration of the British Museum's archives yields a copper coin tells the story of England's ascent from the dark ages. by Caroline Christie
Above the Fold The Document Agenda: “Blooming, buzzing confusion” Unseen beauty at the bottom of the Antarctic, Netflix's film still methodology, and the story of a mysterious radio station. by Caroline Christie