The curators shaping the future of archives: Drew Sawyer
...gearing up for the 2026 Whitney Biennial. In his practice, Sawyer treads a careful line between honoring the authenticity of an object, while finding its...
Vaginal Davis skypes with artist Bjarne Melgaard about toe sucking, Xerox parties, and her many personas
...notions of queerness and infiltrated galleries and museums with his unique visual assault. His work has appeared in the 2014 Whitney Biennial, recent solo shows...
The spiral stories of David Wojnarowicz in ‘Memories That Smell Like Gasoline’
...complications at age 37 in 1992. He continues to be exhibited widely (the Whitney had a retrospective in 2018; the Leslie-Lohman Museum hosted a program...
At Performance Space New York, Tara-Jo Tashna builds a sonic sanctuary
...and devastation amidst this beautiful, resilient earth—it’s becoming more difficult to deny that we and all things are inextricably linked. For the past two years,...
The business of being Philippa Snow
...career of these unexpected inquiries. Her first collection, Which As You Know Means Violence, considers the link between pain and performance. Her second, Trophy Lives,...
On the construction of beauty
...this idea that beauty is somehow visited upon us, it’s freeing.” Whitney Mallet: I really feel like I already know you. Julianne Moore: That’s funny....
Beyond the festival: meet the artists behind TONO 2025
...attendees from Mexico City—such as chef Elena Reygadas and artist Damián Ortega—as well as international guests like Neue Nationalgalerie director Klaus Biesenbach and Whitney Museum...
Document Celebrates Spring/Summer 2025 at Jean’s with Joe Alwyn and JW Anderson
...Fran Lebowitz, Mickalene Thomas, Pati Hertling, Gabriella Karefa-Johnson, Whitney Mallett, Joshua Woods, Richie Shazam, DJ Volvox, and more, as well as Document staff and friends....
A literary coven meets on Madison Avenue
Is a witch a polymath? At Experience of Vastness, a panel held at the Upper East Side gallery Fleiss-Vallois in partnership with The Whitney Review...
George Rouy explores the human body as both subject and medium
...viewer, a new object or the figure. There is this very direct link, so I can see why there’s that reference to Bacon, because of...
Manuela Moscoso embraces change at ZsONAMACO
...curatorial ecosystems. Document Journal: You’ve worked on biennials, including the 2020 Liverpool Biennial, at museums like the Queens Museum and the Tamayo, and at experimental...
The Shoptimist: An advertisement in influencer’s clothing
...proliferates to 308,000 followers on Instagram and 611,500 followers on TikTok. Her link-in-bio redirects users to a dark oatmeal-colored landing page where you can shop...
Sarah Gavlak’s New Wave Art Wknd transforms West Palm Beach into an artistic haven
...to visit that friend, and I thought, Why isn’t anyone doing a contemporary art gallery here featuring artists who appear in the Whitney Biennial or...
Fine Print: Thirty-three top reads of 2024
...not that individuals (that is, characters, but also, we readers) become important, but that all people and all agents are inescapably, if invisibly, linked. Sure,...
David Gray’s ‘Wait For It’ renders New York City as a playground of light and shadow
...where the link may not be obvious at first, can give both of them greater meaning. Or perhaps just magnify the humor or whimsy [of...
The Venice Biennale gets a closing ritual in the form of ‘La Culebra’
...DJ and creative director of Mexican music label NAAFI Alberto Bustamante and curator Sam Ozer to conceive a performance as a “closing ritual” for the...
‘The Whitney Review of New Writing’ turns Performance Space into a speculative archive
...one-night-only performance program curated by writer and editor Whitney Mallett at Performance Space New York in the East Village. The evening celebrated the launch of...
Escapism without escape
...heave and tug against each other. Uncanny dynamics emerge. Furniture reads like the passage of time. I meet up with Whitney and Maya. We’re starving....
Redefining intelligence through intuition
...link intuitive creation to an artistic gesture, Hildegard’s intuition was medicinal, botanical— she is considered by many as a pioneer of natural medicine and scientific...
Desiring literature with Nate Lippens and Kate Zambreno
...concept and the deadline (as I link, I think, my own recent and current work, including my own study of Guibert, to having a late-stage...
Document and Performa celebrate boundary-breaking art together
To coincide with the release of its Fall/Winter 2025 issue, Document hosted the afterparty for the live art biennial’s 20th-anniversary gala...
Performa to celebrate 20 years of artistic impact with Artist Party co-hosted by Document
Founded by art historian and curator RoseLee Goldberg 20 years ago, Performa has become a leading biennial exhibition of boundary-pushing live artwork. Over the past...
Shapeshifting press Semiotext(e)’s five decades of politics and poetics
For Document’s Fall/Winter 2024–25 issue, Whitney Mallett talks to co-editors, writers, and collaborators of the legendary publisher of theory and fiction...
Document Launches Fall/Winter 2024–25: A New Perspective
...do well to follow Chris Kraus’s idea, as she explains to Whitney Mallett in a reflection on legendary independent press Semiotext(e), not to “separate personal...
Mark Armijo McKnight’s ‘Decreation’ undoes the self
...Mexico Badlands pliable like dough, and ominous goat skeletons. Select works from Decreation are on view at The Whitney Museum until January 2025. For Document,...
The Shoptimist: Myths, markets, and the business model of hype
...was released, Supreme’s myth bloomed within the downtown arts scene, creating a link between in-the-know artsy Soho chillers and underground skate culture where both informed...
Roving literary event Casual Encounterz prioritizes the pen over the persona
...Tulathimutte reads a short story from forthcoming collection Rejection—a version that he remarks had been considered “too dirty” for The Paris Review. Whitney Mallett, founding...
Joshua Serafin’s ‘VOID’ mines the elemental, ancestral, and transmigratory experience of their ancestry
...and the earth. When Patrick Flores invited me to participate in VIVA Excon, which is a biennial in the Philippines located in my region, this...
Fine Print: Poetry by any means necessary
...sun set, I Citibiked over the Brooklyn Bridge to make it to Metrograph, on Ludlow Street, for an evening of three films organized by Whitney...
The mother and the monster in Catalina Ouyang’s ‘Trick’
...sheer size. An intimidatingly massive black metal sculpture with a wide ring serving as the base shooting two arms that link the air. The machine...
Hallucinating sense in the era of infinity-content
...“Chicago” as “Chicano,” Chicago being historically linked to gangsters and present-day drill music, the date suggesting some important historical event, the Michelangelo motif giving the...
New Red Order blends satire and sincerity to deconstruct empire
...centers, installations, or, as shown at major venues like the Sharjah Biennial and the Museum of Modern Art, photogrammetry videos that turn sculptures of exponents...
Mara Mckevitt’s cult of persona
...(2023) 64 pages, edition of 100, published by Clementin Seedorf. Courtesy Mara Mckevitt. Whitney: I liked that Maya [Martinez]’s review of Making Of in The...
Bill T. Jones and Hank Willis Thomas reanimate creative freedom
...studies, and visual criticism into the carefully considered multimedia art he creates today. In addition to showing at institutions like the Museum of Modern Art,...
Guerreiro do Divino Amor builds a Helvetian Olympus at the 60th Venice Biennale
...linked to decisions made in Switzerland.” Aesthetically, Guerreiro cites Brazilian carnival culture as a driving reference point (alongside video games). But he also clocks the...
Club Document: Celebrating SS24 with Erykah Badu, Michèle Lamy, and Editor-in-Chief Nick Vogelson
...Participant Inc.’s Lia Gangitano, Daisy Prince, Sam Penn, Parma Ham, Thomas Rom, Performance Space New York’s Pati Hertling, Whitney Mallett, Taylore Scarabelli, Michelle Duncan, Michael...
The sincere glamor of Candy Darling
...starlit autonomy. (The artist Greer Lankton would later make dolls of Vreeland and Candy, the latter for the 1995 Whitney Biennial. Many of Lankton’s dolls...
Erykah Badu and Michèle Lamy summon the spirit of the future
...we have this in common; we feel we are one link in the chain. Another thing we have in common is we feel like everywhere...
Isabelle Huppert and Bruce LaBruce capture the profound power of deviance
“Maybe I have a twisted spirit,” says Isabelle Huppert. “But I never thought there was any perversity or brutality in any of the roles I’ve...
Lucia De Vito’s contemporary take on Fabiana Filippi
...the nature of the Umbria region, which is known as the “green lung” of Italy. The company’s values are deeply linked with history, culture, and...
Cooper Brovenick’s diagnosis for the new age
...high-profile clients of his early mentor, interior design legend Whitney Robinson. A Modern Disease—like jetlag is his second presentation as a curator, a show that...
Taja Cheek makes curation a collaborative art
...guest curator for the 2024 Whitney Biennial’s performance program. As L’Rain, Cheek’s releases regularly top “best of” lists, and she’s toured with acts like Animal...
Fine Print: A Tale of One City
...Whitney Mallett, the eponymous editor of The Whitney Review of New Writing, who’d graciously brought me as her plus-one. Most men wore blazers, except for...
Can Botox help you live longer?
...treatments such as hormonal imbalance tests and fertility screenings are considered as essential to “wellness” as are services for Botox injections. The link between physical...
Fine Print: Can two writers handle real life together?
...a link that sounded compelling. Three paragraphs in, a pit welled in my stomach. There I was: post-party, coked out, foolish, and, of course, 22....
For Hugo Comte, abstraction is the highest form of flattery
...an experimental or home movie? Hugo: It is my first. I’ve written a bunch of short narratives for music videos that didn’t turn into anything....
50 years at church with the Poetry Project
...acoustic guitar in a Colette T-shirt screen-printed “VICTORIAN PUNK.” Photographed by Whitney Mallett. The electricity in the room swelled at around 8.30 when poet Cuthwulf...
For London’s newest class of designers, performance and wearability go hand in hand
...full stomach and fresh inspiration. Whether I’m sat on the bus or doing a food shop, I am constantly examining the world, seeing how I...
‘Lavender Deal’ summons love in the time of COVID
Niko Hallikainen’s sprawling performance poem reflects on heartache over synth and across countries for the Performa Biennial...
