Document Journal

Document Journal is a standalone magazine that focuses on culture, arts, and fashion. Established in New York in 2012, it releases issues twice a year, in the spring and fall. The magazine is printed in a book-style format and is available worldwide.

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Electricity becomes transcendent in Shay Frisch’s China debut

1 week ago | documentjournal.com | Katie K Rex

At MAM Shanghai, the Rome-based artist creates immersive electrical installations that bridge ancient spiritual symbols with modern scientific principles Shay Frisch’s creative practice unfolds as a complex landscape of meticulous scientific processes, where technology, light projection, and the incitement of existential introspection address the question, “why not?” The tangible materials in his works are merely the vehicle for an experience of grandeur referencing the ephemeral nature of...
For Tasneem Sarkez, Memory is the Medium

1 week ago | documentjournal.com | Sahir Ahmed

Tasneem Sarkez grew up surrounded by online images. An early aughts baby, the 22-year-old Libyan-American artist works across painting, installation, and found objects. In just a few years, she’s built a portfolio that reads like a lossy acid trip through the 2010s into the 2020s, where white noise bubbles over.
Inside Willo Perron’s Synesthetic Installation for Vans

2 weeks ago | documentjournal.com | Maraya Fisher

Posted Vans launches its Future Make platform with a psychedelic feat of light, sound, and design I’ve always envied those with synesthesia—that sensory, cognitive phenomenon that allows one to see sounds in colors or taste words. This year at Milan Design Week, the Vans immersive installation, Checkered Future: Frequency Manifest, granted this wish, if only for a few incredible moments.
Gucci unveils 'The Art of Silk' initiative

2 weeks ago | documentjournal.com | Colin Boyle

The iconic fashion house celebrates its silk scarf heritage with nine contemporary artists, a retrospective book, and a Steven Meisel campaign featuring Julia Garner On March 21, Gucci announced their newest cultural project The Art of Silk, a multi-format series which includes a reimagining of their silk scarf collection by several artists, a retrospective book, and a stunning new campaign by the iconic Steven Meisel.
Sausha serves her eponymous EP straight, no mixer

2 weeks ago | documentjournal.com | Ryan Petersen

Known for her high-octane sets, the NYC-based DJ discusses her EP’s intimate sonic journey, the emotional toll of creation, and her decade-long relationship with the city As a DJ, Sausha is known for her frenetic, high-energy sets, dense with texture and disparate influences. With her debut EP, premiering today, she’s opted to turn inward, translating the kinetic energy of the booth into something more intimate and uncanny.
Performance Space New York's 2025 Gala was a 'space for everyone'

3 weeks 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.
Loewe unveils ‘Crafted World’ in Tokyo, a love letter to artisanship

3 weeks ago | documentjournal.com | Colin Boyle

From leather atelier to global luxury brand, the exhibition traces the house’s evolution while honoring Japanese craft traditions and marking a creative turning point How does a company evolve from a discreet leathermaking collective to a brand, then from a brand to a creative world? This is the central question for Loewe’s Crafted World, the exhibition by the Spanish luxury fashion house which opened in Tokyo’s Harajuku district on March 29.
Zsela's new 'Moth Dance' music video peels back the curtain

3 weeks ago | 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.
The dual voice of May Stevens

4 weeks ago | documentjournal.com | Grace Byron

Between Guerrilla Girls activism and lyrical abstraction, Stevens's art, currently exhibited At Mary Ryan Gallery and Ryan Lee Gallery, reveals multiple paths for feminist expression The identity of the original Guerrilla Girls is still a hushed secret. An anonymous activist group that formed in 1985 to protest the lack of mainstream representation for women artists and is still active today, only a few members’ names are known—including the beguiling painter May Stevens (1924-2019).
In 'Trauma Plot,' Jamie Hood writes herself whole again

1 month ago | documentjournal.com | Maya Kotomori

In ‘Trauma Plot,’ Jamie Hood writes herself whole again Posted Through raw excavation and narrative shape-shifting, Hood transforms her assault wounds into a rebellion against literary conventions Meet Jamie. A book character, a woman, a friend. She is a reliable narrator and someone people would call a survivor; of multiple assaults, of life.