
With ‘Road Less Traveled,’ Rose B. Simpson diaries the tension between ancestry and modern culture
The artist’s New York debut is on view at Jack Shainman Gallery, rendering tangible her relationship with Native identity and cycles of personal struggle

The work of art in the age of algorithmic optimization
The intellectual property debate asks who profits from the fruits of creative labor—and what it means to make something beautiful when everyone else can, too

Thomas Blackshear casts new light on the canon of Western American art
In collaboration with Stetson, the artist personifies the hidden Black cowboy, reimagining Lon Megargee’s iconic painting ‘The Last Drop From His Stetson’

Chase Hall mines memory, bearing witness to personal histories
Following the opening of ‘The Close of the Day,’ the artist joins Document to discuss code switching and the American South

‘What Is Psychedelic’ details Aura Rosenberg’s appetite for impulse
The artist joins Document to reflect upon her first institutional survey, which traverses five decades, two spaces, and one book

In ‘Inside,’ art informs character
Curator Leonardo Bigazzi joins Document to expand upon the film’s collection, reflecting upon the experience of art through the screen

BOFFO makes its return to dry land with ‘Group Show: A Retrospective’
On Friday night, an exhibition-themed party brought alumni of the Fire Island residency back together, in the middle of Times Square

Performance Space celebrates new paths across New York’s creative landscape
The arts organization held its annual gala on Saturday, honoring Pope.L, Sarah Schulman, and Michelle Coffey with an intimate dinner theater

Art Baja California’s inaugural festival is rooted in locality
Across La Paz, San José del Cabo, and Todos Santos, the event connects an international roster of creatives with the histories of its host cities

For Vex Ashley, pleasure is an act of resistance
With DIY porn project Four Chambers, the adult filmmaker finds the art in sex—and investigates its relationship to society in the process

Anastasia Bay’s ‘The Stumbler’s Parade’ imagines modern parables
The Brussels-born artist joins Document to elaborate on the making of her series's 12 paintings, and the driving influences and artistic philosophies behind them

‘FACES II’ subverts traditional forms of portraiture
The second iteration of a two-part exhibition at Hal Bromm Gallery explores the multifaceted nature of the face

‘Mr Wonderful’ memorializes the street art of Richard Hambleton, and a culture in flux
Gallerist Ronald Sosinski and curator Joseph Bannan discuss the making of the retrospective, and the creative legacy of ’80s New York

Rita Ackermann’s ‘Vertical Vanish’ is anchored in ambiguity
The Hungary-born artist’s latest exhibition oscillates between abstraction and representation, with pre-drawn, half-erased scenes that peer through wild brushstrokes

The “non-work” of Felix Gonzalez-Torres finds new regard at David Zwirner
The pioneering’s artist’s abstraction is brought to the forefront at the gallery, joining the aesthetic and the political into one common body

‘Recycling Beauty’ bestows new layers of meaning upon objects of the past
Fondazione Prada’s ongoing exhibition presents over 60 Greek and Roman art objects, transformed or altered throughout history

For Hannah Traore, success is a communal experience
The 27-year-old Malian-Canadian is among New York’s youngest curators—and her namesake gallery is dedicated to bringing marginalized artists to the fore

Good artists borrow, great artists steal, and AI art generators get sued
The company behind popular art tool Stable Diffusion is facing accusations of copyright infringement from all sides, raising questions about the future of AI art

Baye & Asa’s ‘HotHouse’ interrogates the myths wedged deep into the national consciousness
In their latest performance piece, the dancers employ a simple set for narrative flexibility, communicating a range of characters and places through their movement

‘Louvre Looks’ renders contemporary portraits of the eminent institution
Twenty creatives across disciplines pay tribute to the museum through short-from videos, recognizing the Louvre as an evolving site of modern art

For cyborg Neil Harbisson, technology is the medium, not the message
From shark fins to seismic senses, members of the biohacking community are changing their brains and bodies to foster a deeper connection with nature

Rafael Domenech’s ‘The Medium is the Massage’ renders the art show a publication
The Cuban artist joins Document to discuss the joys of contaminating space, the necessity of repositioning, and why he favors horizontal monumentality over hierarchies

Ariana Papademetropoulos warps archetypal ways of seeing with ghostly fantasies
For Document’s Winter/Resort 2023 issue, the artist shares a portfolio of paintings that blur the boundary between mythology and reality

In ‘Death of A,’ Kandis Williams invents recognition of the internal
For Document’s Winter/Resort 2023 issue, the artist compiles stills from her stripped-down interpretation of Arthur Miller’s classic tragedy

Caitlin MacBride and Julia Weist question the institutional archive
For Document, the artists meet to discuss object theory, museum hierarchies, and the responsibilities of creatives who grapple with American stories

Remembering Franz Kline, who championed expressionism and paved the way for minimalism
Available digitally to the public today, Hauser & Wirth Institute’s catalouge raisonné premiers rarely-seen or exhibited works from the final decade of the artist’s life

Carl Craig and Nazy Nazhand are bridging the gap between art and electronic music
For Document, the pioneering DJ and art advisor reunite to discuss how visual and sonic experimentation will inform our future

‘STEIDL–WERK No.30: KUNSTHAUS GÖTTINGEN’ embraces the anarchy of the printing process
Each copy of artist Theusus Chan and publisher Gerhard Steidl’s book bears its own unique errors, displaying the art of the accident

Anicka Yi’s paintings are living, autonomous creatures
Following her 'ÄLñ§ñ' exhibition, the artist joins Hans-Ulrich Obrist to discuss the why art and science should mingle for Document's Winter/Resort 2023 issue

Maïa Régis’s ‘KILOS’ transforms the canvas into a visceral stage
The artist’s latest exhibition crosses generations and borders, weaving together a tapestry of characters and cultural references

A Spider and its Web: Designer Suchi Reddy on the inextricable link between humans and their environments
The founder of Reddymade joined Document to discuss neuroaesthetics, the creation of her Lexus-inspired sculpture, and technology as an extension of personhood

A dispatch from the ritzy underbelly of Art Basel Miami Beach
Everything we overheard at Basel, from an alleged museum break-in, to gallerists making up fake press clippings, to what Uber drivers think of it all

Laurie Simmons makes art, not magic
An icon of the Pictures Generation, the artist is back with a never-before-shown series of works showcasing pornographic images in surreal suburban interiors

Rediscovering the archive of Mary Dill Henry
The prolific artist’s sketchbooks, letters, and press clippings—nearly lost to modern audiences—are to be digitized for public consumption, and immortalized in our cultural history

In ‘The Shadow of Spring’, Miles Greenberg examines the corporeality of his avatar
The artist’s latest exhibition departs from durational performance into the world of sculpture, shifting from the hyper-present to a figurative temporality

David Lynch’s art is a window into his strange, elusive world
In two concurrent visual arts exhibitions, the Academy Award-winning auteur explores the themes he's know for in the mediums he isn't

Inside NADA Miami and ILY2’s otherworldly anniversary dinner
From opposite corners of the art world spectrum, the two organizations join together to usher in the next generation of creatives

Artist Niccolò Debole’s playlist for finding pride in process
The New York-based creative shares 13 songs that speak to the allure of the in-between

A brief guide to Art Basel Miami, for the decision-making-impaired
From sought-after shows to cocktail hours to full-fledged parties, Document rounds up the renowned art fair’s unmissable events

Rabin Huissen’s ‘Selective Memory’ seeks balance between the organic and the man-made
In his diaristic exhibition at Sōko, the artist explores the hallmarks of the natural world, and adds his own imprint to them

Maxwell Alexandre transposes familial realities into a labyrinthian extension of home
In ‘Pardo é Papel,’ the painter presents large-scale figurative paintings driven by anthropological note-taking and his roots in Rocinha

The art of activism, through the voice of Nan Goldin
In ‘All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,’ documentarian Laura Poitras tracks the photographer’s unrelenting pursuit of personal and political truth

Oscar yi Hou makes art from the spaces in between
Replete with Chinese motifs and symbols of Americana, the portraits in ‘East of sun, west of moon’ examine the performance of ethnicity and race

At Art Partner’s #CreateCOP27 competition, creatives make the global climate emergency personal
Across mediums, the event unites scenes of natural disaster with community action

Andy Harman recycles the detritus from the myth of fashion
In his latest exhibition, the set designer and sculptor plays with the conflict between the familiar and the peculiar

Inside the sixth FotoFocus biennial, as told by an art world outsider
The largest biennial of its kind in America, the month-long celebration aims to foreground purposely-forgotten stories

Noel de Lesseps makes a practice of play
To the Brooklyn-based painter, art is an opportunity to reinvigorate a sense of childlike wonder

Sophia Giovannitti is not your muse
In her new solo show, ‘Study 4: Collateral,’ the artist and auteur welds an ideology that reconsiders gendered assumptions

Ian Strange casts the suburban home in a new light
For FotoFocus’s 2022 Biennial, the multidisciplinary artist created two architectural interventions centered around the act of looking
