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.
Nan Goldin and Vince Aletti on the process of the picture
Nan Goldin reflects on the many contradictions of self-portraiture with critic Vince Aletti.
Artist Peter Doig conjures meaning and mystery in his paintings
The Scottish artist brought a new romance to painting when he came of age in the ’80s. Many years and broken auction records later, those...
Camille Henrot merges anthropology and analog for ‘Grosse Fatigue’
The artist conceived this portfolio of found images and her own work for Document's Spring/Summer 2014 issue.
Robert Heinecken implicates himself in a vast system of sex, money, and power with his ‘comprimised’ magazines
A portfolio from Document's Spring/Summer 2014 issue pays tribute to the pioneer of appropriation art whose his altered magazines, culled directly from mass media and...
An Art Showdown at Paramount Ranch
During the last weekend in January, while visitors flocked to Printed Matter's LA Art Book Fair downtown, more adventurous and in-the-know art lovers made the...
Preview Photographer Chad Pitman’s debut book, “Valley Pines”
Preview Photographer Chad Pitman's debut book, "Valley Pines"
Larry Clark’s Photographs, for $100 Apiece
Irreverent filmmaker and photographer Larry Clark will be selling a selection of photographs at Los Angeles's Ooga Booga Gallery for $100 each. Although his fine-art...
Internet killed the public access star: Welcome to Glenn O’Brien’s ‘TV Party’
How Glenn O’Brien’s ‘TV Party’ ushered in the do-it-yourself entertainment era, from Document's Fall/Winter 2013 issue.
Alissa Bennett imagines the meeting of a pair of artists who redefined erotic symbolism
A dark commentary on female sexuality interpreted by the works of two artists from very different time periods, Toyen and Emily Sundblad, from Document's Fall/Winter...
Color, vision, and compulsion: Andra Eggleston on her family legacy
William Eggleston is credited with ushering in the age of color photography and becoming the first photographer to make color his main medium. Eggleston’s daughter...
A look inside Maripol’s subliminal process
The Downtown artist, known for her styling and polaroid photography, shares an intimate diary from her forthcoming book, ‘MARIPOLA X’ for Document's Fall/Winter 2013 issue.
In ‘Space Fuck,’ Bjarne Melgaard reinterprets Rem Koolhaas’s OMA
Bjarne Melgaard captures imagination in a multimedia experience
Miuccia Prada and OMA still remember a time when art could scandalize
Exhibition curator Glenn Phillips speaks on the Fondazione Prada’s restaging Harald Szeemann's infamous 1969 show for Document's Fall/Winter 2013 issue.
Dive inside artist Matthew Day Jackson’s exquisite corpses
Artist Matthew Day Jackson’s explicit exploration of humankind’s core vulnerabilities, from Document's Fall/Winter 2013 issue.
Isa Genzken investigates the alchemy that occurs when object meets life in ’70s Berlin
On the eve of her first major U.S. retrospective at MoMA, the German artist shared an intimate selection of never-before-seen works for Document's Fall/Winter 2013...
Experience the stirring romantic vision of David D’Angers
Controversial in his day, sculptor David D’Angers redefined neoclassical notions and helped usher in the age of romanticism. See this portfolio of his boundary pushing...
Vanessa Beecroft stages an elaborate human tableau
The artist known for staging larger-than-life human performances, shares an intimate polaroid diary as she prepares to stage her largest performance to date for Document's...
Michele Bubacco brings a needed dose of serendipity to the Venetian painting tradition
As the son of a Venetian glass blower, the artist creates powerful compositions of faceless figures. He speaks with Kathy Battista for Document's Spring/Summer 2013...
Lewis Miller’s lush floral arrangements are a tribute to the ephemeral beauty of nature
‘Flowers that are on their last breath, seconds from expiring—to me that is when they are most beautiful.' Visit the slideshow for more on how...
The enduring resonance of artist Jack Goldstein’s insular nihilism
Goldstein’s legacy, from conceptual performance to photorealistic painting, comments on the precariousness of artistic success, from Document's Spring/Summer 2013 issue.
MoMA PS1 founder Alanna Heiss looks back on a lifetime of guerrilla art
‘It’s very easy to be a radical or guerilla by saying ‘this is no good.’ But it is hard to be a builder.’ The curator...
MoMA’s Pedro Gadanho defends ugly architecture
The MoMA curator’s unorthodox hunger for architectural styles, slums, punk, and pop, from Document's Spring/Summer 2013 issue.
How Lia Gangitano became the patron curator for the New York’s most subversive artists
Gangitano never planned a life in the art world. Here she speaks with Linda Yablonsky about the ICA’s seminal 'Boston School' exhibition and Participant, her...
Spencer Sweeney’s beguiling, generous self-portraiture
The painter created a series of self-portraits for the Spring/Summer 2013 issue of Document. Parinaz Mogadassi curates the story.
Performance artist Marie Karlberg breaks down the price of a soul
The Swedish artist discusses nightlife, discovering her darkness, and ‘going on sale’ for Document's Spring/Summer 2013 issue.
Tabboo! The muse as artist
Stephen Tashjian, aka, Tabboo!, has long been an inspiration to artists including Nan Goldin, Jack Pierson, David Armstrong, Mark Morrisroe, and Peter Hujar. Tabboo! The...
Lucio Fontana’s ‘hot lava’ ceramics, through the eyes of Sterling Ruby
The late Italian painter and sculptor, chiefly known for his dramatic “slash series,” also created an equally beautiful body of sculptural work. Artist Sterling Ruby...
In my own mind
Maurizio Cattelan’s work breathes the violent clarity of very few words: taxidermy, Hitler, the Pope! No surprise Maurizio’s latest project, the print magazine Toilet Paper...
‘Oedipus Rex’: Francesco Vezzoli exposes our baroque, surreal reality
Artist Francesco Vezzoli is on a first-name basis with pretty much everyone in the film, art and music world. He speaks with Daniele Balice for...
Nir Hod on the intimate craft of portraiture and his ‘new geniuses’
The artist shares never-before-seen portraits exclusively for Document's Fall/Winter 2012 issue.
On a debate of balance
Benjamin Alexander Huseby and Rein Vollenga birth a love child from their his and his art practices.
Maurizio Anzeri’s ‘needle heads’ turn nostalgic subjects into alien bodies
The London-based artist stitches on vintage portraits, creating vibratory networks. He shares his work for Document's Fall/Winter 2012 issue.
Bookmarc curates the ultimate collection of artbooks
A peek inside the books documenting the lives and work of artists who defined New York, from Document's Fall/Winter 2012 issue.
