How a resort art fair is reshaping a small island nation’s art world—and taking it global
With FUZE at Baha Mar, the Bahamas is building a new foundation for its art world, linking local experimentation to global recognition at the Venice...
Once upon a time, fashion got dirty
“Dirty Looks,” the Barbican’s new show, remembers when grime and ruin were a language of truth and spotlights the contemporary designers still in the muck
Soren Hope paints what the eye can’t hold
For their New York debut, the artist blurs the real and the abstract, bending illusion to explore what it means to truly see
The curators shaping the future of archives: Drew Sawyer
For the third installment of Document’s series, Whitney Museum of American Art's Sondra Gilman Curator of Photography Drew Sawyer carries the ethical responsibilities of narrating...
Does Cultural Crisis Breed Artistic Fertility? A Look Through History to Understand Today
As the world faces overlapping crises, from war and displacement to ecological collapse and rising authoritarianism, this 2017 meditation on art’s response to turmoil feels...
The boy that don’t bleed
From scorched valleys to shadowed interiors, Caleb Hahne Quintana’s latest exhibition at Anat Ebgi unravels a myth on canvas
Vaginal Davis skypes with artist Bjarne Melgaard about toe sucking, Xerox parties, and her many personas
From Berlin, to Bowie, to sexual frustration, the artists discussed the experiences which fuel their creative projects for Document's Fall/Winter 2015 issue.
Versace Embodied sets the tone for Vitale’s direction
Meisel, Schorr, Myles, and others contribute to a multi-disciplinary project that reflects the house’s evolving identity
Out with the old guard: U-Haul Gallery breaks the mold
Fueled by gasoline and a guerrilla spirit, the roving arts exhibition space is challenging traditional modes of display
Between dream and daylight in the Rockies
The inaugural AIR Festival blends art, science, and performance in Aspen, reviving its history as a crucible for cultural and technological exchange
The zeitgeist forces Stephen Petronio’s hand
Once nurtured by New York’s downtown scene, the choreographer now confronts an arts ecosystem in flux, and exits on his own terms
Without him, they’re just clothes
Leigh Bowery's art was inseparable from his presence—a challenge Tate Modern's retrospective can't quite solve
Ellery Neon’s punk odyssey
From founding a Gowanus squat to performing at MoMA PS1, the transdisciplinary artist has carved a path from New York's margins to its cultural center...
At Performance Space New York, Tara-Jo Tashna builds a sonic sanctuary
In 'A. Garden', the artist and curator brings together performers working across disciplines to imagine joy, ecology, and resistance as shared ground
At The School, ‘General Conditions’ is both a mirror and an antidote
Jack Shainman’s upstate school-turned-gallery hosts 29 artists grappling with the current weight of the world
Beyond the festival: meet the artists behind TONO 2025
Following the two-week-long event, festival founder Sam Ozer chats with some of the creators behind this year's immersive exhibitions
Expressive bodies and gleaming eyes: a glimpse at Lisa Yuskavage’s personal archive of sketches
For Document's Spring/Summer 2025 issue, the painter shares an unseen series of self-reflexive prototypes ahead of her exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum
From ‘wrecker of civilization’ to gallery retrospective
Cosey Fanni Tutti's controversial 'Magazine Actions' arrives in New York with a silver frame but the same provocative questions
‘Video After Video: The Critical Media of CAMP’ traces an alternate history of the medium
From the Picturephone to the present day, the Mumbai-based collaborative studio grapples with the politics and poetics of the moving image
Inside ‘Deviations,’ the queer group show curated by Oscar yi Hou
The artist walks us through the intimate, offbeat group show he curated at James Fuentes, spotlighting voices from his tight circle of friends
Gideon Jacobs stages a technospiritual crisis at EARTH
In a sermon-performance equal parts satire and sacrament, 'Images' asks what it means to renounce the screen—and whether doing so is even possible
Love is the message
In a debut portfolio for the inaugural issue of Notes on Beauty, we explore beauty through the lens of those who have indelibly shaped the...
George Rouy explores the human body as both subject and medium
Following his debut solo show in London, the British artist joins Document to discuss painting, performance, and his corporeal collaboration with choreographer Sharon Eyal
Kingsley Ifill is in no rush
In his latest exhibition, 'Blue Roan' at Hannah Barry Gallery in London, the artist brings together 15 years of instinct-driven image-making, carving frames by hand,...
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
