Three of the great themes in art remain: love, death, and god—or the lack there of. In the new exhibition on until May 31 2015 of works by Ed Atkins, Recent Ouija, at The Stedelijk Museum of Art he asks these timeless questions of our contemporary experience in a digital world where cyberspace has turned inside out and envelope our vision and altered our bodies.
A photographer, an educator, a human rights advocate, a documentarian, an artist—Zanele Muholi is a fearless visual activist whose work creates visibility for the black lesbian and transgender communities of South Africa.
Early on associated with the Boston School of American Photography, Philip-Lorca diCorcia is among a group of artists who trained in the 70s at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts.
Olivier Rousteing began at Balmain in 2011, at only 25. Rousteing’s over-the-top rock aesthetic has garned him critical acclaim. And in a world where everything is really never enough, he has also caught the eye of the celebrity set. Kim Kardashian, Kanye West, and Rihanna have all leant their faces to the house’s campaigns.
Artist Marcela Gutiérrez shares a new series of paintings with Document, inspired by the iconic Flower Series photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe.
For nearly 20 years, the Belgium artist Michaël Borremans has been producing a surreal body of work in painting, drawing, and film that simultaneously mines contemporary image-making and the history of art—The Angel, a painting from 2013 for example, recalls fashion photography (Belgian model Hannelore Knuts served as the muse) as well as portraits by artists like Velazquez, Goya, and Manet. Document previously published a portfolio of the artist's hauntingly beautiful paintings. Last month, "Michaël Borremans: As sweet as it gets," the first solo show of the artist's works in all mediums, opened at the Dallas Museum of Art. Drew Sawyer sat down with curator Jeffrey Grove to discuss Borremans' practice and why he's finally getting a major survey in the U.S.
Two years ago when Hugo Boss hired Jason Wu as creative director, many were scratching their heads as Wu had never worked for a fashion company besides his own. But perhaps that was the genius of it all.
When we begin each new issue of Document Journal, we are reacting not only to our previous issues, of course, and to the season in fashion, but also to the media landscape—what we see every day on the news, as well as the intertwined relationship of media, fashion, and art.
Since the late 70s, Chicago-based artist Barbara Kasten has produced photographic work that exploits the medium’s inherent tension between representation and abstraction.