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2 weeks ago | 
documentjournal.com | Adnan Qiblawi
From founding a Gowanus squat to performing at MoMA PS1, the transdisciplinary artist has carved a path from New York's margins to its cultural center without losing his edge As a kid growing up in downtown Brooklyn, Ellery Neon was always up to no good. Born to a Lithuanian poet father and a New York-native visual artist mother, his artistic journey unspools like a punk odyssey—from teenage graffiti tagger to squat founder, train-hopping wanderer to drag wrestling impresario.
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2 weeks ago | 
documentjournal.com | Adnan Qiblawi
Photographer Slava Mogutin unites 28 artists across generations for an exhibition at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division Last Wednesday, a group of artists and onlookers gathered at the bookstore Bureau of General Services—Queer Division at the LGBT Community Center for a walkthrough of My Romantic Ideal, the photography exhibition curated by Slava Mogutin showcasing 28 queer artists exploring the politics of love, intimacy, and desire.
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1 month ago | 
documentjournal.com | Adnan Qiblawi
The Greek photographer reflects on the shift from documenting nightlife hedonism to capturing queer intimacy in his largest exhibition yet at Berlin’s Rosegarden In the summer of 2021, as lockdown restrictions eased in New York City, I was diverging from my pre-Covid life—my old friends, my old apartment, even my old name. I was in early infatuation with a lover who had just moved to the city from Berlin. He is an adonis, a classic beauty, as though pulled right from an ancient Byzantine coin.
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1 month ago | 
documentjournal.com | Adnan Qiblawi
Blending Tibetan mantra, electronic subversion, and generational memory, YESHE’s debut album and music video reclaim space and refuse silence With her debut album DUST and titular music video, Tibetan singer-songwriter YESHE introduces a new kind of diva—rooted in diaspora, fueled by defiance, and cloaked in unapologetic glamour.
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1 month ago | 
usa.10magazine.com | Adnan Qiblawi
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2 months ago | 
documentjournal.com | Adnan Qiblawi
In anticipation of his upcoming performance as Father Bartholomew Mary, Gideon Jacobs speaks with Trevor Paglen on how humanity’s ancient anxieties around visual representation are taking on new forms Tomorrow, April 18th, writer and performer Gideon Jacobs will take the stage at EARTH, the New York arts space curated by Dean Kissick, to premiere the sold-out three-performance run of his new show Images.
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2 months ago | 
documentjournal.com | Adnan Qiblawi
Design meets desire in Vezzoli’s Monte Carlo show, a vivid reconstruction of Lagerfeld’s 1980s fantasy apartment—and a reflection on queer interior worlds When Karl Lagerfeld, fashion’s most notorious monochrome minimalist, filled his Monte Carlo apartment with the riotous, color-saturated furniture of the Memphis Group in 1983, he created an unlikely temple—one now resurrected by Italian artist Francesco Vezzoli in his latest exhibition.
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2 months ago | 
documentjournal.com | Adnan Qiblawi
From Debbie Harry's duet with Kelsey Lu as Kermit the Frog to bloodletting performances and duct tape couture, this year's experimental arts party celebrated New York's most iconic provocateurs This past Friday, Document attended the 2025 Performance Space Gala, which celebrated 45 years of experimental programming and honored three New York titans: Yoko Ono, Fran Lebowitz, and Adrienne Edwards, plus a surprise guest.
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Mar 28, 2025 | 
documentjournal.com | Adnan Qiblawi
From a sprained ankle to soaring wings, Zsela tells Document about how this new music video brings her 'Big For You' album journey full circle Imagine a moth dance: a velvet bug fluttering around a candle in a dark room. The eyespots on her wings blink as she hovers with the candle flame–A waltz of restraint, before she inevitably succumbs to her darkest impulses, breaking step, crashing into the flame. Zsela’s Moth Dance is much the same. The track is like an anti-swan song.
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Mar 2, 2025 | 
news.artnet.com | Adnan Qiblawi
As far back as the 8th century B.C.E., the city of Corinth served as the beating heart of the Mediterranean’s commerce. Lechaion, its sea port, was at the very core of its success. A new study has revealed that the port may be even older than previously thought. Built on the Gulf of Corinth, Lechaion was the largest harbor in ancient Greece, a hub for Phoenican, Mycenaean, Byzantine, and Roman ships which passed through carrying trade goods such as pottery, fragrances, and textiles.
