Document Journal

18/07/2023

A look back at 30 years of Gary Simmons through MCA Chicago's retrospective: 'Public Enemy.'

On view through October 1.

A retrospective at MCA Chicago studies the artist’s storied career, crossing mediums to prod at questions of race, class, and popular culture

17/07/2023

Greta Gerwig’s ‘Barbie’ and Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’ share a release date (this Friday), and a knack for sparking terminally online debate.

Greta Gerwig’s ‘Barbie’ and Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’ share a release date, and a knack for sparking terminally online debate

15/07/2023

Ahead of the release of her A24 feature debut, 'Earth Mama,' director Savanah Leaf joined Document to dissect the film and advocate for fiction’s capacity for truthful storytelling.

'Earth Mama' is on view in select theaters.

Ahead of the film’s release, Savanah Leaf joins Document to dissect her A24 feature debut and advocate for fiction’s capacity for truthful storytelling

15/07/2023

On her new album ‘In The End It Always Does,’ The Japanese House charts the trajectory of a q***r love story, from beginning to bittersweet end.

On new album ‘In The End It Always Does,’ Amber Bain charts the trajectory of a q***r love story, from beginning to bittersweet end

14/07/2023

Artist Jordan Raoufpur joined Document to muse on the standards he believes art should be held to, and elaborate on the ways he’s actively prevented himself from fulfilling them.

The artist joins Document to muse on the standards art should be held to, and elaborate on the ways he’s prevented himself from fulfilling them

14/07/2023

Following the release of her ‘Temporal Cove’ tape, untitled (halo)’s Ariana Mamnoon aka smilegoth offers Document a playlist that indulges in the evanescent.

Listen here.

Following the release of her ‘Temporal Cove’ tape, untitled (halo)’s Ariana Mamnoon offers Document a playlist that indulges in the evanescent

14/07/2023

“I’m trying to remove myself, or destroy certain paradigms of having your cake and eating it—I’m just gonna build a bakery, and put whatever I want in it.”

Jenson Leonard on his solo exhibition 'Workflow', on view at Pioneer Works through September 10.

Ahead of the exhibition’s opening, Jenson Leonard joins Document to expound upon his film’s intent, and muse on the compassion of comedy

14/07/2023

Document offers a look down the rabbit hole of Emily Allan—and a premiere of the “Perfect Brain” music video from upcoming album ‘Clanging.’

Watch here.

Document premieres the “Perfect Brain” music video from upcoming album ‘Clanging,’ picking the lyricist’s brain on e-girls and jealousy in Tompkins Square Park

14/07/2023

In case you missed the premiere of Héctor Oaks and SITA's “Loff Is All You Speed”—inspired by the energy of Spanish rave music and the cadence of Berlin techno.

Document premieres the music video here, underpinned by the influence of La Ruta del Bakalao scene, and the cadence of Berlin techno

13/07/2023

Daydreams of Hermès Pansage Bag.

13/07/2023

“Are we anxious because we are heading towards a Matrix-like world, and would we feel the same if The Matrix [never] existed?” —Inge de Leeuw

Metrograph's 'Neon Noir' series finds film noir tropes in fluorescent future worlds. On screen through July.

Curated by Inge de Leeuw, Metrograph’s July film series trades the crime dramas of the genre’s past for the science-fiction of the near future

13/07/2023

On the heels of the launch of her ready-to-wear collection IZZY DU /LIFELINE, the London-based outerwear designer joined Document to speak on bridging aesthetics, wearable energy, Pierre Cardin, and the “business of dressing people."

On the heels of the launch of her ready-to-wear collection, the designer joins Document to speak on wearable energy, Pierre Cardin, and the “business of dressing people”

13/07/2023

A portrait of q***rness in Egypt, through the lens of Jérémie Chegrane.

View the full gallery here.
https://www.documentjournal.com/2023/06/egyptian-gay-pride-photo-diary-jeremie-chegrane-sarah-hegazy-homophobia-human-rights/

01/07/2023

For Gen Z’s on-screen counterparts, moments of raw passion have been exchanged for obsession with the purity of youth—why can’t both exist at once?

01/07/2023

“I started looking at myself in the mirror: This appliance that I have, what can I do with it? How can I have fun with it?”—Pippa Garner

Pippa Garner and Gray Wielebinski meet to discuss trompe l’oeil, gender-hacking, and q***r visibility for Document.

Grounded by a shared affection for contemporary folklore, the two artists meet to discuss trompe l’oeil, gender-hacking, and q***r visibility

01/07/2023

“In the ring, you win or lose, like in life. And that doesn’t happen in an indirect way, with a ball or a pair of skis, but in the form of an essential, antique, and eternal fight.”

Antonio Monda makes a case for boxing—in spectacle and in life.

Antonio Monda stands behind the cutthroat sport—the last stage for the modern epic

30/06/2023

In her recently published zine, 'Some Girls,' New York-based photographer Sam Penn renders magic from memories, finding permanence in passing moments of affection.

Take a look at the works here.

In her first published work, the New York-based photographer renders magic from memories, finding permanence in passing moments of affection

30/06/2023

UNIIQU3 shares photographs from her world (domination) tour, spreading the gospel of Jersey club in the birthplace of techno.

View Detroit's Movement Festival through her lens.

The DJ shares photographs from her world (domination) tour, spreading the gospel of Jersey club in the birthplace of techno

30/06/2023

Document shares a look into the Jeffries and Jonah Almost's Pride party at Outer Heaven—characterized by a dynamic community and plenty of reason to celebrate.

The party kicked off Pride Month, uniting a dynamic crew of creatives under one roof in the Bowery

30/06/2023

“I don’t just want to return to the state in which I can endure this world as it is. I want to get free. I want to be outside the cyclical time of work and leisure. I want to be off in a different time altogether.”

—Mckenzie Wark, on fantasies of utopia.

In her biweekly column for Document, McKenzie Wark writes about the cis-het imagination, and blowing off steam at Pride

30/06/2023

Ahead of the release his latest album, Grian Chatten joined Document to dissect its anatomy and offer an analysis of the mercurial emotions that made it.

Listen to 'Chaos For The Fly'—out today.

Ahead of the release his album, Grian Chatten joins Document to dissect its anatomy and offer an analysis of the mercurial emotions that made it

29/06/2023

This week's Object of Desire: JW Anderson's Crystal Bumper Slides—if summer was a shoe.

29/06/2023

United in championing curiosity and self-expression—Document, Feeld, Ludovic de Saint Sernin and Mia Khalifa closed out the month’s festivities at the Times Square EDITION.

Recap the event here.

United in championing curiosity and self-expression, the hosts closed out the month’s festivities at the Times Square EDITION

29/06/2023

“It’s common in shops if something doesn’t sell, they have to [replace it with] things that sell. It’s never like that here. Of course, sometimes it’s hard, but we prefer to be radical.”

The Broken Arm founders reflect on 10 years of radical retail.

At Paris Fashion Week, founders Guillaume Steinmetz, Anaïs Lafarge, and Romain Joste reminisce on the venture’s beginning

29/06/2023

Following the release of her sophomore album ‘French Bath,’ May Rio shared a booklist with Document for reinventing the damsel in distress.

Following the release of her sophomore album ‘French Bath,’ the musician compiles incisive texts by modern female authors

29/06/2023

“I never had an intellectual relationship with cinema. It was more like a safe place, where you feel comfortable.”

Alice Winocour’s latest film, 'Paris Memories' is psychological cinema, with trauma as the impetus for coming-together.
https://www.documentjournal.com/2023/06/alice-winocour-paris-memories-new-film-nastya-golubeva-french-cinema-nocturama-psycho/

Alice Winocour’s latest film follows in the French tradition of psychological cinema, with trauma as the impetus for coming-together

28/06/2023

“Boxing is violent, barbarous, cruel, even be***al, but it is profoundly, unmistakably, tragically human. And, as such, it reveals our meanness—but also our payback, manipulation, courage, and folly.”

Antonio Monda stands behind the cutthroat sport—the last stage for the modern epic

27/06/2023

As the dawn of an expansive q***r consciousness eclipses the pressures of professional cohesion, Pippa Garner and Gray Wielebinski piece together new dimensions of personhood to find out what makes a body more than the sum of its parts.

Grounded by a shared affection for contemporary folklore, the two artists meet to discuss trompe l’oeil, gender-hacking, and q***r visibility

27/06/2023

“When you’re a kid, you can just kind of decide that your eyes are flowers or something like that; you can just make an arbitrary decision about reality. I feel like I’m granted that power again when I’m in the throes of creativity.”

Ahead of the release his album, Grian Chatten joins Document to dissect its anatomy and offer an analysis of the mercurial emotions that made it

27/06/2023

Q***r television has experienced the fabled “sexual devolution,” zapping up mainstream raunchy, or merely romantic, shows and replacing them with glorified teeny-boppers.

For Gen Z’s on-screen counterparts, moments of raw passion have been exchanged for obsession with the purity of youth—why can’t both exist at once?