Art Ballroom Marfa celebrates two decades of mystery and subversion The contemporary art organization located in Texas’s enigmatic desert highlights dozens of artists in a new publication and at aa Manhattan gala
Art Artist Lorenzo Amos paints domestic space as a site for revelation and togetherness In his debut solo show ‘No Regrets Because You’re My Sunshine,’ depictions of a social network reveal the creative self
“Hope, however, is an act of faith and has to be sustained by other concrete actions.” Photographer Drew Jarrett and Style Director Ronald Burton III collaborate on this fashion portfolio for Document’s Fall/Winter 2024–25 issue
Redefining intelligence through intuition From medieval mystics to modern radicals, for Document’s Fall/Winter 2024–25 issue, Ananda Yin explores the suppressed potency of intuitive knowledge
THING, the revolutionary magazine that chronicled the birth of Chicago’s queer, Black club culture DeForrest Brown, Jr. takes us inside the countercultural publication that served as a relic of desire and community-building before the internet by DeForrest Brown, Jr. Lukasz Pukowiec captures moments of sun-soaked calm in Zanzibar The photographer provides warm glimpses of life in the Tanzanian archipelago by Harshvardhan Shah Dawoud Bey’s ‘Street Portraits’ are a radical recentering of the Black community The legendary photographer speaks with curator Natasha Egan about his relationship to his subjects and the institutional response to Black Lives Matter by Ann Binlot Torkwase Dyson dives into the history of Black liberation with ‘Bird and Lava’ The painter on Black Compositional Thought, the climate crisis, and how scuba diving informs her work by Ann Binlot To Marta Pawłowska and Paolo Musa, the body is a canvas The model and photographer's new project is a journey of self-exploration and creative confidence by Document Journal Blueprints for a better world: Messages of hope For Document’s F/W 2020 issue, Tao Lin, Rhea Dillon, and Rachel Rabbit White reflect on where we’ve been and where we’re headed by Document Journal Blueprints for a better world: proposals and manifestos The Guerrilla Girls, Zegna's Alessandro Sartori, and architect Charles Renfro present concrete ideas for a kinder, more sustainable and just future by Document Journal Blueprints for a better world: Rethinking the role of community For Document’s Fall/Winter 2020 issue, we invited a selection of the culture’s most compelling creative minds to envision a new way of living by Document Journal Donald Judd’s radical departure from monochrome For our Spring/Summer 2020 issue, a close look at the artist’s annotated preparatory collages for his colorful late sculpture by Brian Boucher “When I look at you, do you see me?” Painter Amoako Boafo urges us to consider the complexities of blackness For Document No. 16, curator Osei Bonsu spoke with the painter about his upbringing in Ghana, creating space for black expression in Vienna, and balancing... by Ann Binlot Judy Chicago’s 1983 sketches still threaten the patriarchy The artist speaks to Nancy Princenthal about environmentalism and how she used fashion to expand our concept of the divine by Ann Binlot Haegue Yang counters sensory and linguistic isolation with a new artistic grammar The artist tells a visual story of kinship between humans and hardware with multi-sensory collages for Document's Fall/Winter 2019 issue. by Sofía Lemos The body as spectacle: Hayv Kahraman’s contorted female forms personify trauma and resistance The artist examines the human ability to reemerge from oppressive states in this portfolio for Document's Fall/Winter 2019 issue. by Aruna D'Souza Art, decadence, and religion: Francesco Vezzoli reinterprets a French literary legend at Musee D’Orsay An exhibition exploring the many artistic stages of Joris-Karl Huysmans, as seen by Italian artist Francesco Vezzoli for Document Fall/Winter 2019. by Document Journal Pope.L layers performances and haunted places to question dominant historical narratives Coinciding with the artist's on-going show at the Whitney, Document revisits 'The Escape,' a profound meditation on space, convention, and liberation, in Document F/W 2019. by Suzie Oppenheimer Borderlands: Mitch Epstein’s portfolio of America’s changing physical and social landscape From gun-toting ranchers to sweeping mountain vistas, the photographer unravels the implicit and explicit politics of the US-Mexico border. by Drew Sawyer Vivian Suter sculpts her own meaning out of landscape painting By allowing leaves and fruit to fall on her canvases, Suter invites the natural elements of Guatemala to become collaborators in her artistic process, in... by Cecilia Alemani Tschabalala Self maps the intricacy of the black aesthetic In her portfolio for Document S/S 2019, the artist layers and collages fabrics in a movement toward black beings existing without compromise. by Sasha Bonét Carmen Winant is taking vintage covergirls and shining a new, abstracted spotlight on them The artist pounds, massages, and wrinkles images of Playboy models into radical feminist art in Document S/S 2019. by Lucy Gallun The climate activists fighting for our future, from the deep south to Canadian north Photographer Laurence Ellis documents the fight against rising sea levels and Big Oil in a photo essay for Document S/S 2019. by Nathaniel Rich 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. by Drew Sawyer Garry Winogrand’s illusive color photography receives its due at The Brooklyn Museum Ahead of the exhibition, Document S/S 2019 featured a portfolio of the late photographer's color work with an introduction by Mitch Epstein. by Mitch Epstein Liz Johnson Artur captures black love and non-binary nightlife in London The Russian-Ghanaian photographer presents her portfolio ‘Return to Forever’ for Document's Fall/Winter 2018 issue. by Drew Sawyer Alex and Jaime Alex and Jaime met as strangers at a support group in a nondescript part of London. Here, Alex describes their first encounter, as photographer Markn... by Alexandera Loie Hollowell’s bodily landscapes Loie Hollowell's portfolio for Document's Fall/Winter 2018 issue marks a daring departure from the practice of early female abstractionists, reveling in the eroticism and ethereality... by Andrianna Campbell Ebony G. Patterson flashes her discordant opulence Above, below, beneath provides a window into the political stakes of Ebony G. Patterson's decadent, intricate tapestries from Document's Fall/Winter 2018 issue. by Ann Binlot The fight of Black America, through the lens of Gordon Parks For Document Fall/Winter 2018, The Gordon Parks Foundation contributed an exclusive portfolio of his photographs from that watershed moment in 1963, accompanied by his own... by Gordon Parks Sterling Ruby’s Basin Theology From his studio in Los Angeles, the artist created an exclusive portfolio—fusing garments with shards exploded in a kiln—for Document Spring/Summer 2014. by Kevin McGarry Gentlemen, watch your wallets John Waters curates and captions a never-before-seen selection of Karlheinz Weinberger images. by John Waters The first cut is the deepest Hairstylist Holli Smith started out trimming trees. She's now one of the top artists in her trade, cutting right to the soul of her model's... by Kim Ann Foxman Jack Pierson automates his artistic impulses The photographer and artist created this portfolio of golden watercolors as a push to get away from the brain and into the hand, a decompressing... by Jack Pierson A retrospective into Erwin Blumenfeld’s push for radical photography Fine art photographer Erwin Blumenfeld’s mesmerizing techniques in and out of the darkroom graced the the world’s finest fashion publications. Vince Aletti explores the man... by Vince Aletti This is the New York skyline circa 1980 Glenn O'Brien remembered the atmosphere in 1980 New York, ever present in the timeless beauty of Edo Bertoglio's photographs. by Glenn O'Brien See the vibrant faces of London’s Notting Hill Carnival Photographer Edd Horder documented the people and fashion of London's annual Caribbean summer street festival. by Document Journal Christelle De Castro zooms in on downtown NYC in ‘Citizens of the Bowery’ Christelle De Castro photographed and documented 60 denizens of the Bowery for the citizenM exhibition and documentary Citizens of the Bowery. by Ann Binlot Stef Mitchell captures a haunting adolescence in ‘One Damn Thing After Another’ The photographer captures the blur of transitioning from childhood to adulthood in her trademark poetic approach. by Shawn Lakin “It’s like a blood bath”: Inside the student protests rattling Bangladesh Document's New Vanguard Special Reportage winner Tahia Farhin Haque reports from the front lines of the student protests in Dhaka. by Caroline Christie In celebration of summer holidays, Document 12 contributors bring us to their favorite places Jil Sanders's Lucie Meier embarks on a journey to the mountains of Zermatt, while coder Fereshteh Forough travels to her favorite park in Afghanistan. by Vetle Egeland In the laboratory where the future of flight is being born One photographer's close look at Imperial College London's Aerial Robotics department where the future of drone flight is being hatched. by John Cronin Documenting the endless appetites of ‘starving artists’ 'FOOD SEX ART,' which opens at the Ryan Lee Gallery this week, dispels the idea of artistic penury with a survey of artistic indulgence from... by Clara Malley A new cross-cultural book series will help you ‘unlearn’ the tired narratives on Asian identity Volume One of FAR-NEAR approaches the cultural complications of Asian identity with artworks free from the pressures of place, expectation and stereotype. by Sharifa Morris Drenched and rapturous, New York City’s Dance Parade celebrates a new chapter With the repeal of the repressive Cabaret Laws that had been a thorn in the side of club goers for a century, New York City... by Daisy Prince Katharina Grosse rejects your idea that painting is archaic Known for work that takes place on a captivating scale, the painter discusses a technique that operates far beyond the realm of one dimension for... by Drew Sawyer 50 years later, a new look at the 1968 Paris protests from a lost archive Hidden away for half a century, rare photographs by a young freelancer captured the chaos and optimism of three weeks of social unrest known as... by Daisy Prince The world through a pinhole: the unseen paintings of Howardena Pindell The artist and social activist Howardena Pindell shares the never-before-seen pointillist experiments that would go on to mark her signature painting style—now the focus of... by Inga Fraser The endless drawings of Joan Jonas Never before published drawings by Joan Jonas that were inspired by a “Female Devouring Ghost” perched on the shore between life and death. by Gillian Young Rineke Dijkstra and capturing the awkward blooms of youth With The Louisiana Book, the Dutch photographer captures the essence of youth untamed and in the wild. by Phil Backes One student’s perspective on the March For Our Lives Photographs by a student at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School in Maryland capture an historic day of demonstration in Washington, D.C. by Nathan Taylor Pemberton Seeing is believing: The outsider art avatars of Britain’s CB radio underground A new book collects the zany world of "eyeball cards" used amongst Britain's CB radio users in the late 70s and early 80s. by Nathan Taylor Pemberton The secret drawings of Great Britain’s UFO Desk A new book reveals UFO drawings collected from six decades of correspondence sent to a top-secret agency of the British Government. by Nathan Taylor Pemberton
THING, the revolutionary magazine that chronicled the birth of Chicago’s queer, Black club culture DeForrest Brown, Jr. takes us inside the countercultural publication that served as a relic of desire and community-building before the internet by DeForrest Brown, Jr.
Lukasz Pukowiec captures moments of sun-soaked calm in Zanzibar The photographer provides warm glimpses of life in the Tanzanian archipelago by Harshvardhan Shah
Dawoud Bey’s ‘Street Portraits’ are a radical recentering of the Black community The legendary photographer speaks with curator Natasha Egan about his relationship to his subjects and the institutional response to Black Lives Matter by Ann Binlot
Torkwase Dyson dives into the history of Black liberation with ‘Bird and Lava’ The painter on Black Compositional Thought, the climate crisis, and how scuba diving informs her work by Ann Binlot
To Marta Pawłowska and Paolo Musa, the body is a canvas The model and photographer's new project is a journey of self-exploration and creative confidence by Document Journal
Blueprints for a better world: Messages of hope For Document’s F/W 2020 issue, Tao Lin, Rhea Dillon, and Rachel Rabbit White reflect on where we’ve been and where we’re headed by Document Journal
Blueprints for a better world: proposals and manifestos The Guerrilla Girls, Zegna's Alessandro Sartori, and architect Charles Renfro present concrete ideas for a kinder, more sustainable and just future by Document Journal
Blueprints for a better world: Rethinking the role of community For Document’s Fall/Winter 2020 issue, we invited a selection of the culture’s most compelling creative minds to envision a new way of living by Document Journal
Donald Judd’s radical departure from monochrome For our Spring/Summer 2020 issue, a close look at the artist’s annotated preparatory collages for his colorful late sculpture by Brian Boucher
“When I look at you, do you see me?” Painter Amoako Boafo urges us to consider the complexities of blackness For Document No. 16, curator Osei Bonsu spoke with the painter about his upbringing in Ghana, creating space for black expression in Vienna, and balancing... by Ann Binlot
Judy Chicago’s 1983 sketches still threaten the patriarchy The artist speaks to Nancy Princenthal about environmentalism and how she used fashion to expand our concept of the divine by Ann Binlot
Haegue Yang counters sensory and linguistic isolation with a new artistic grammar The artist tells a visual story of kinship between humans and hardware with multi-sensory collages for Document's Fall/Winter 2019 issue. by Sofía Lemos
The body as spectacle: Hayv Kahraman’s contorted female forms personify trauma and resistance The artist examines the human ability to reemerge from oppressive states in this portfolio for Document's Fall/Winter 2019 issue. by Aruna D'Souza
Art, decadence, and religion: Francesco Vezzoli reinterprets a French literary legend at Musee D’Orsay An exhibition exploring the many artistic stages of Joris-Karl Huysmans, as seen by Italian artist Francesco Vezzoli for Document Fall/Winter 2019. by Document Journal
Pope.L layers performances and haunted places to question dominant historical narratives Coinciding with the artist's on-going show at the Whitney, Document revisits 'The Escape,' a profound meditation on space, convention, and liberation, in Document F/W 2019. by Suzie Oppenheimer
Borderlands: Mitch Epstein’s portfolio of America’s changing physical and social landscape From gun-toting ranchers to sweeping mountain vistas, the photographer unravels the implicit and explicit politics of the US-Mexico border. by Drew Sawyer
Vivian Suter sculpts her own meaning out of landscape painting By allowing leaves and fruit to fall on her canvases, Suter invites the natural elements of Guatemala to become collaborators in her artistic process, in... by Cecilia Alemani
Tschabalala Self maps the intricacy of the black aesthetic In her portfolio for Document S/S 2019, the artist layers and collages fabrics in a movement toward black beings existing without compromise. by Sasha Bonét
Carmen Winant is taking vintage covergirls and shining a new, abstracted spotlight on them The artist pounds, massages, and wrinkles images of Playboy models into radical feminist art in Document S/S 2019. by Lucy Gallun
The climate activists fighting for our future, from the deep south to Canadian north Photographer Laurence Ellis documents the fight against rising sea levels and Big Oil in a photo essay for Document S/S 2019. by Nathaniel Rich
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. by Drew Sawyer
Garry Winogrand’s illusive color photography receives its due at The Brooklyn Museum Ahead of the exhibition, Document S/S 2019 featured a portfolio of the late photographer's color work with an introduction by Mitch Epstein. by Mitch Epstein
Liz Johnson Artur captures black love and non-binary nightlife in London The Russian-Ghanaian photographer presents her portfolio ‘Return to Forever’ for Document's Fall/Winter 2018 issue. by Drew Sawyer
Alex and Jaime Alex and Jaime met as strangers at a support group in a nondescript part of London. Here, Alex describes their first encounter, as photographer Markn... by Alexandera
Loie Hollowell’s bodily landscapes Loie Hollowell's portfolio for Document's Fall/Winter 2018 issue marks a daring departure from the practice of early female abstractionists, reveling in the eroticism and ethereality... by Andrianna Campbell
Ebony G. Patterson flashes her discordant opulence Above, below, beneath provides a window into the political stakes of Ebony G. Patterson's decadent, intricate tapestries from Document's Fall/Winter 2018 issue. by Ann Binlot
The fight of Black America, through the lens of Gordon Parks For Document Fall/Winter 2018, The Gordon Parks Foundation contributed an exclusive portfolio of his photographs from that watershed moment in 1963, accompanied by his own... by Gordon Parks
Sterling Ruby’s Basin Theology From his studio in Los Angeles, the artist created an exclusive portfolio—fusing garments with shards exploded in a kiln—for Document Spring/Summer 2014. by Kevin McGarry
Gentlemen, watch your wallets John Waters curates and captions a never-before-seen selection of Karlheinz Weinberger images. by John Waters
The first cut is the deepest Hairstylist Holli Smith started out trimming trees. She's now one of the top artists in her trade, cutting right to the soul of her model's... by Kim Ann Foxman
Jack Pierson automates his artistic impulses The photographer and artist created this portfolio of golden watercolors as a push to get away from the brain and into the hand, a decompressing... by Jack Pierson
A retrospective into Erwin Blumenfeld’s push for radical photography Fine art photographer Erwin Blumenfeld’s mesmerizing techniques in and out of the darkroom graced the the world’s finest fashion publications. Vince Aletti explores the man... by Vince Aletti
This is the New York skyline circa 1980 Glenn O'Brien remembered the atmosphere in 1980 New York, ever present in the timeless beauty of Edo Bertoglio's photographs. by Glenn O'Brien
See the vibrant faces of London’s Notting Hill Carnival Photographer Edd Horder documented the people and fashion of London's annual Caribbean summer street festival. by Document Journal
Christelle De Castro zooms in on downtown NYC in ‘Citizens of the Bowery’ Christelle De Castro photographed and documented 60 denizens of the Bowery for the citizenM exhibition and documentary Citizens of the Bowery. by Ann Binlot
Stef Mitchell captures a haunting adolescence in ‘One Damn Thing After Another’ The photographer captures the blur of transitioning from childhood to adulthood in her trademark poetic approach. by Shawn Lakin
“It’s like a blood bath”: Inside the student protests rattling Bangladesh Document's New Vanguard Special Reportage winner Tahia Farhin Haque reports from the front lines of the student protests in Dhaka. by Caroline Christie
In celebration of summer holidays, Document 12 contributors bring us to their favorite places Jil Sanders's Lucie Meier embarks on a journey to the mountains of Zermatt, while coder Fereshteh Forough travels to her favorite park in Afghanistan. by Vetle Egeland
In the laboratory where the future of flight is being born One photographer's close look at Imperial College London's Aerial Robotics department where the future of drone flight is being hatched. by John Cronin
Documenting the endless appetites of ‘starving artists’ 'FOOD SEX ART,' which opens at the Ryan Lee Gallery this week, dispels the idea of artistic penury with a survey of artistic indulgence from... by Clara Malley
A new cross-cultural book series will help you ‘unlearn’ the tired narratives on Asian identity Volume One of FAR-NEAR approaches the cultural complications of Asian identity with artworks free from the pressures of place, expectation and stereotype. by Sharifa Morris
Drenched and rapturous, New York City’s Dance Parade celebrates a new chapter With the repeal of the repressive Cabaret Laws that had been a thorn in the side of club goers for a century, New York City... by Daisy Prince
Katharina Grosse rejects your idea that painting is archaic Known for work that takes place on a captivating scale, the painter discusses a technique that operates far beyond the realm of one dimension for... by Drew Sawyer
50 years later, a new look at the 1968 Paris protests from a lost archive Hidden away for half a century, rare photographs by a young freelancer captured the chaos and optimism of three weeks of social unrest known as... by Daisy Prince
The world through a pinhole: the unseen paintings of Howardena Pindell The artist and social activist Howardena Pindell shares the never-before-seen pointillist experiments that would go on to mark her signature painting style—now the focus of... by Inga Fraser
The endless drawings of Joan Jonas Never before published drawings by Joan Jonas that were inspired by a “Female Devouring Ghost” perched on the shore between life and death. by Gillian Young
Rineke Dijkstra and capturing the awkward blooms of youth With The Louisiana Book, the Dutch photographer captures the essence of youth untamed and in the wild. by Phil Backes
One student’s perspective on the March For Our Lives Photographs by a student at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School in Maryland capture an historic day of demonstration in Washington, D.C. by Nathan Taylor Pemberton
Seeing is believing: The outsider art avatars of Britain’s CB radio underground A new book collects the zany world of "eyeball cards" used amongst Britain's CB radio users in the late 70s and early 80s. by Nathan Taylor Pemberton
The secret drawings of Great Britain’s UFO Desk A new book reveals UFO drawings collected from six decades of correspondence sent to a top-secret agency of the British Government. by Nathan Taylor Pemberton