Thou shalt not make images—but what if AI does?
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...
Karl Lagerfeld’s Memphis dream, revived by Francesco Vezzoli
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
Electricity becomes transcendent in Shay Frisch’s China debut
At MAM Shanghai, the Rome-based artist creates immersive electrical installations that bridge ancient spiritual symbols with modern scientific principles
For Tasneem Sarkez, Memory is the Medium
With a first solo show and festival debut behind her, the Libyan-American artist is poised for a breakthrough year
The taste of taboo: Petr Davydtchenko’s roadkill delicacies
For the opening dinner of 'KHAM: The Road’, the artist’s latest exhibition at London gallery A/Political, scavenged carcasses make a Michelin-star menu by chef Masayoshi...
Scene report: Performance Space New York’s 2025 Gala was a ‘space for everyone’
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...
Against vision: The architecture of Ricardo Scofidio (1935—2025)
Upon the passing of a founding principal of the studio that trafficked a contemporary art sensibility into architecture, reflections on the work of Diller Scofidio...
The dual voice of May Stevens
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 two sides of techno-speculation in DESTE Foundation’s ‘Dream Machines’
The exhibition catalogue considers the generative role of technology in art making and looks to old futures for signs of our present moment
Manuela Moscoso embraces change at ZsONAMACO
Document sits down with the Quito-born, New York-based curator behind this year's galleries to discuss her symbiotic selection process and Mexico City's evolving curatorial climate
Wax, fire, and the Getty name
At her L.A. Frieze Week exhibition, 'Mirror of Influence,' heir and artist Kendalle Getty's provocative works literally dissolve, exploring her journey from rejecting her famous...
SCAD’s deFINE ART challenges the Bible Belt
In its 16th edition, the deFINE ART symposium showcases ten exhibitions that confront identity, heritage, and belonging in America's Deep South
In the rearview mirror of Kenneth Tam’s ‘The Medallion’
Recently on view at Bridget Donahue, the Queens-born artist's solo exhibition is a multimedia intervention on broken dreams and the taxi medallion crisis
Anne Imhof’s spectacular alienation
In her largest work to date, Germany's enfant terrible creates an American high school hellscape that both frustrates and rewards.
This Valentines Day, Kerosene Jones says “FUCK YOU” to romance
From flesh-eating nuns to cosmic mummy dick: Inside a radical queer artist's pilgrimage through NYC's occult performances and a rain-soaked Chelsea Hotel orgy
Florentina Holzinger’s lyric horror in ‘TANZ’
At the show's North American premiere, the performance artist and choreographer invites audiences to a bacchanalian circus en pointe–with trust at its core
Movement ephemera enters the market in Diego Vega Solorza’s ‘BASOTEVE’
The Mexico-based artist and choreographer rendered his hour-long performance as an object on display at Art Basel Miami Beach
Musician Solange and artist Wangechi Mutu transit beyond disciplines
In this limited edition cover story for Document’s Fall/Winter 2024–25 issue, the artists are joined by MoMA curator Thomas (T.) Lax to discuss water as...
Tim Brawner’s ‘The Last Caress’ is a portrait of glamor and decay
On view at Management Gallery, the painter’s latest solo show presents a not-so-far-off future obsessed with spectacle, where nostalgic glamor and necrosis entwine
Alexander Wessely on the art without boundaries
The artist’s work at the Sphere distorts time, identity, and the limits of perception—he sits down with Document to discuss both the human and post-human...
‘Vanya on Huron’ reminds audiences of the devastating power of yearning
Director Matthew Gasda’s adaptation of the Chekhov classic is conscientious to the enduring power of desire
Sarah Gavlak’s New Wave Art Wknd transforms West Palm Beach into an artistic haven
The curator and gallerist’s Miami Art Week satellite event unites collectors, artists, and innovators with its equity-focused programming
Amanita expands close to home
The gallery celebrates the opening of its Freeman Alley space with a solo show by Nicholas Campbell
Kenny Scharf’s technicolor vision comes alive at the Brant Foundation
Document sits down with the artist to look back at nearly 50 years of playful creation
At ‘Montez Got Talent,’ karaoke is a competitive sport
The Lower Manhattan-based organization’s sixth annual tournament featured an aural battle royale of performance-art all stars
Larry Stanton: A love story
Document sits down with curator Fabio Cherstich to track the late artist’s friendships across generations and geographies within his retrospective exhibit, ‘IMAGES’
Hassan Hajjaj and Rose Previte bring a taste of home to Art Basel
The artist and chef joined forces to reinvent a historic building into a restaurant, tea house, nightclub, and shop
‘Modeling Ecologies: Take Care’ creates a living archive of the Caribbean
On view at Chinatown’s Entrance gallery, the group exhibition considers the intersection of architecture, ecology, and history to define home
The cotton-candy lushness of Pucci’s Fun Fair
The Italian brand’s art director Camille Miceli convened a carnivalesque installation for its inaugural Art Basel Miami Beach partnership
The Venice Biennale gets a closing ritual in the form of ‘La Culebra’
Tracing sounds and symbols from across the Americas, the 55-minute performance channels the aesthetic flows within WangShui’s Arsenale installation
‘The Whitney Review of New Writing’ turns Performance Space into a speculative archive
In ‘LIBRARY,’ four live acts revel in the absurd, magic, and tender possibilities of literary encounters
Escapism without escape
Drew Zeiba seeks the source of infinity at the fairs, museums, parties, and performances surrounding Art Basel Miami Beach
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
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
Mike Kelley’s final paintings are character studies of the lost self
In this portfolio of never-before-exhibited images from Document’s Fall/Winter 2024–25 issue, the late artist reveals fractured lines of humor, submission, and solitude
In ‘The Beat of life,’ Oscar yi Hou resists traditional notions of representation
On view at James Fuentes gallery, the painter’s solo show addresses the many nuances of historical and cultural identity through figurative painting
Performa to celebrate 20 years of artistic impact with Artist Party co-hosted by Document
Guests are invited for a night of live performance, architectural experimentation, and music to honor and support the pioneering organization
Ambera Wellmann materializes mortal landscapes
For Document’s Fall/Winter 2024–25 issue, the painter unveils a suite of large-scale paintings that fuse mysterious environments with beings alive and dead
The lyric monuments of Barbara Chase-Riboud
Currently the subject of a Paris retrospective spanning eight institutions, the artist and author divulges her poetic process for these works-on-paper published for the first...
Chloë Sevigny and Eileen Myles disrupt artistic expectations
The filmmaker and actor joins the writer to talk about performance, Provincetown, and loving the broken and pathetic for Document’s Fall/Winter 2024–25 issue
Multidisciplinary artist Mickalene Thomas transforms before the lens for her debut as the indomitable model Mickey!
To accompany this exclusive fashion portfolio in Document’s Fall/Winter 2024–25 issue, Thomas is joined by actor and screenwriter Lena Waithe to unpack the art of...
In Andrea Geyer’s ‘a promise of lightning,’ the natural is inherently political
On view at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, the artist’s latest exhibition draws parallels between queerness and the the interconnectivity of earth’s environment
Jake Gyllenhaal and Hans Ulrich Obrist put language into action
For Document’s Fall/Winter 2024-25 issue, the actor and curator discuss the potency of the word on paper, stage, and screen
In Tahir Karmali’s ‘Eternal Rent,’ infrastructure is human
On view at Chinatown’s Management gallery, the artist’s debut solo show centers construction and deconstruction on the city streets and within the self
R. Jamin’s ‘Temperance’ is a study in the spirituality behind science
Document sits down with the artist to talk about the natural disasters, divination, and doves behind her first solo show, on view at David Peter...
Experimental pop duo NEW YORK’s ‘rapstar*’ maintains an artful anonymity
Following the release of their sophomore album, Gretchen Lawrence and Coumba Samba reflect on art, friendship, and their lo-fi influences
Maya Man and Sotce usher in a new generation of internet artists
The pair sits down with Document to discuss their creative processes amidst the ever-changing climate of internet art
Mark Armijo McKnight’s ‘Decreation’ undoes the self
The artist’s solo exhibition at The Whitney invokes existential landscapes as sites for unbecoming
Enrique Garcia exposes the serpentine mechanics of contemporary life
In ‘Swallowing the Sun,’ on view at N.A.S.A.L. in Mexico City, the artist traces the curves of human-made design at all scales
