Hidden treasures at the American Museum Of Natural History
Some of the most valuable and historically significant pieces are hidden out of view in the American Museum of Natural History’s permanent collection, which can...
Document’s 10 Must-Sees at Frieze New York
The current edition of Frieze New York—the fourth since the launch in 2012—is among its best.
It’s Symptomatic… by Carissa Rodriguez
If our bodily functions are to be imagined as computing, the tongue is something like a screengrab of the artist’s internal state.
Ida Applebroog: The Ethics of Desire (Studies)
Ida Applebroog’s work is oriented around the destabilization of the known; often achieved by stripping culturally familiar imagery down to its most basic forms.
Peter Schlesinger’s visual diary
Artist Peter Schlesinger's photographs document an extraordinary life that intersected with some of the brightest names in the worlds of art, fashion, and society. Here,...
Ed Atkins “Recent Ouija” at The Stedelijk Museum
Three of the great themes in art remain: love, death, and god—or the lack there of. In the new exhibition on until May 31 2015...
Self-Portraits by Zanele Muholi
A photographer, an educator, a human rights advocate, a documentarian, an artist—Zanele Muholi is a fearless visual activist whose work creates visibility for the black...
Last Look: East of Eden by Philip-Lorca diCorcia at David Zwirner Gallery
Early on associated with the Boston School of American Photography, Philip-Lorca diCorcia is among a group of artists who trained in the 70s at the...
Mapplethorpe’s Flowers by Marcela Gutiérrez
Artist Marcela Gutiérrez shares a new series of paintings with Document, inspired by the iconic Flower Series photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe.
Haunted: Michaël Borremans’ Enigmatic Art
For nearly 20 years, the Belgium artist Michaël Borremans has been producing a surreal body of work in painting, drawing, and film that simultaneously mines...
Barbara Kasten: Refracted Light
Since the late 70s, Chicago-based artist Barbara Kasten has produced photographic work that exploits the medium’s inherent tension between representation and abstraction.
Sibylle Bergemann: A Spectre in East Berlin
OSMOS Address presents the first solo exhibition in New York of Sibylle Bergemann (1941-2010).
Lynn Hershman Leeson: Origins of the Species
Since the late '90s, the American artist and filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson has gained international acclaim for her feminist science-fiction movies starring Tilda Swinton, such...
Document Diary: Slow Factory’s Céline Semaan on Fashion, Technology, and Connectedness
The intersection of design, arts, culture, and technology has been the subject of many think pieces, op-eds, and editorials, but musing on it is different...
“Monuments of the Memory” at the Refectory
Last week, Le Livre Art Publishing celebrated the release of its second project, Monuments of the Memory at The Refectory at the High Line Hotel in New York. Monuments is a...
A Look Back on Soviet Life Through Keizo Kitajima’s Lens
To commemorate the 25th anniversary of the collapse of the Iron Curtain, Document presents exclusive photos of the U.S.S.R.
A Visit to the Los Angeles Art Book Fair
This past weekend marked the third installment of the Los Angeles Art Book Fair, organized by New York’s Printed Matter. Over 250 exhibitors from around...
Ryan McNamara and Curator Piper Marshall on Performance Art in Museums and McNamara’s New Show
Last Thursday, Mary Boone Gallery opened Gently Used, an exhibition of new works by Ryan McNamara. Known for his site-specific performances, McNamara has produced new...
John Waters on Justin Bieber, Ansel Adams, and His New Show
This Friday, John Waters presents his third solo show at Marianne Boesky’s 24th-Street gallery, John Waters: Beverly Hills John. The show, filled with Water’s signature...
The New Generation by Bjarne Melgaard
Few artists working in New York today are as prolific or influential as Norwegian powerhouse Bjarne Melgaard.
Learn to Read Art: A History of Printed Matter
The Shandaken Project Three-Year Retrospective
Document Dispatch: Art Basel Miami
Document heads down to Art Basel Miami with photographer Miles Ladin. Art is fashion and fashion is art…and it all converges in Miami during this...
Architect Peter Marino Selects Rarely Seen Images From Tom of Finland’s Own Archive for Document
Peter Marino selects rarely seen images from Tom of Finland’s own archive for Document, and traces the artist’s influence on Robert Mapplethorpe and himself.
Bjarne Melgaard’s Art Basel Survival Guide
Bjarne Melgaard shares his Art Basel Miami survival guide.
Day With(out) Art
December 1st marks the 25th anniversary of Day With(out) Art, a program initiated by Visual AIDS in 1989 as a day of action and remembrance...
Avery Singer’s Computer World
The artist realizes performative figures within unrealized buildings, created with Google SketchUp and rendered by hand. She shares these works in Document's Fall/Winter 2014 issue.
Anne Collier—woman with a camera
The artist's first museum survey, organized by the MCA Chicago, highlights her unique contribution to 21st-century art while looking to the visual culture of the...
Katherine Hubbard at Capricious 88
The provisional state of Utah was once known as Deseret, a pretty name from the Book of Mormon to describe a semi-autonomous territory that never...
Poetics in Plaster: Thomas Houseago’s “Moun Room” at Hauser & Wirth
Hauser & Wirth's new installation by Thomas Houseago, “Moun Room,” is immediately arresting, drawing us into a 40,000 square-foot, sky-lit hangar. Reminiscent of visual labyrinths...
How AMMA Studio creates ‘Objects of Desire’ from everyday objects
AMMA Studio takes the ordinary—cement, coffee, salt, metal, wood—and transforms these materials into enduring objects that merge sculpture with design, featured in Document's Fall/Winter 2014...
Moby and His Cognitive Dissonance
Sturtevant’s Double Trouble
Artist Sturtevant challenged the notions of authorship by making versions of the works of contemporaries including Andy Warhol, James Rosenquist, Jasper Johns, and Marcel Duchamp....
Doll Parts: Hilton Als Recalls Some of His Most Poignant Memories of Artist Greer Lankton
I’m trying to remember the specifics of Greer, the way her legs and arms moved in her summer dresses. Because that’s the season I associate...
Juliette Binoche By Francesco Vezzoli
French actress Juliette Binoche and Italian artist Francesco Vezzoli take a deep dive into European cinema.
Stephen Sprouse’s fashion diaries
Debbie Harry remembers the designer and her close friend as a new collection of his sketches emerges to inspire the next generation.
Marco De Vincenzo by Giulia Ruberti
Giulia Ruberti draws out the source of Marco de Vincenzo's constant evolution.
Stuart Comer By Zackary Drucker
Stuart Comer, chief curator of media and performance at MoMA, discusses New York and new work with artists Zackary Drucker.
Portraits by Cédric Rivrain
“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”—Oscar Wilde
Exclusive Excerpt—“Track Star” by Andrew Durbin
Andrew Durbin's new book Mature Themes freely shifts between deep thoughts on the film Clueless or pop star Katy Perry to discussions on the theorist...
From the Editors—F/W 2014
Document No. 5 is a special issue, the marker of our second anniversary. We’ve asked our amazing contributors to celebrate the journey we’ve been sharing...
Art and Responsible Commerce With Laurent Claquin & Dennis Freedman
Despite a friendship flourishing after meeting at a Barney’s event, these two fashion powerhouses find more common ground discussing art.
“An L.A. Sort of Place”—Paul Jasmin at Casa de Costa
While Paul Jasmin himself is a Montana native, his work featured in Casa de Costa’s exhibition, An L.A. Sort of Place, pays homage to the...
The Ghost Dancer: Stephen Posen
Speaking to his longtime friend Tim Goosens, Stephen discusses his unique stylistic approach in creating his haunting narratives.
Henzel Studio, the artisan rug manufacturer that counts Helmut Lang and Mickalene Thomas among its collaborators
The company asked curator Joakim Andreasson to select 12 contemporary artists to provide radical new designs to change their objets from interior design into works of...
Artist Pierre Soulages crafts post-war reflections in black
One of the most well-regarded French artists of his time staged his first state-side retrospective in 2014. A selection of these artworks featured in Document's...
Following the right hands of Joan Crawford and Lauren Bacall, with Pierre Bismuth
The artist disrupts the fragile framework of cinema with intentional misuse of information or symbols, the meanings of which one typically takes for granted, in...
David Lynch on the artist Michaël Borremans—and the quiet dreams he conjures
The acclaimed director introduces a portfolio of Borremans' uncanny works for Document's Spring/Summer 2014 issue.
Harlem’s Studio Museum channels Zora Neale Hurston to consider ‘draped down’ feminine beauty
Investigating self-fashioning and memory with treasures from the museum collection by Willie Cole, Narcissister, and Xaviera Simmons for Document's Spring/Summer 2014 issue.
