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
Lily Burgess and Lauren Massie’s ‘A Vehement Flame’ is a photographic manifestation of love’s unpredictability
Told in 14 blown-up Polaroids and a collage at PALO Gallery, the couple’s first exhibition showcases their tumultuous relationship in all its authentic glory
The Watermill Center’s annual summer benefit fused dance and artistic experimentation
The foundation’s centennial fundraising event hosted 20 provocative performances and installations and honored dance icon Lucinda Childs
PPOW’s current exhibition ‘Airhead’ schools viewers on the art of education
Curated by Timmy Simonds and gallery director Eden Deering, the group show and performance program dissects the powers and possibilities of the classroom
Joshua Serafin’s ‘VOID’ mines the elemental, ancestral, and transmigratory experience of their ancestry
Document joins the artist to discuss the speculative future realms of Indigenous Filipino spirituality in their most recent video installation and live performance
Benjamin Fredrickson’s ‘Wedgies’ turn schoolyard antics into ass-up uncanniness
Document joins the New York-based artist for a sweaty rooftop shoot ahead of the release of his latest photo book
For five decades, Mira Schor has blended concept and image
Following major solo exhibitions in New York and Paris, the artist joins Document to discuss language, legacy, and the ‘thingness’ of painting
Ben Werther asks if LARPing is the new readymade
War-zone fantasies meet suburban poetics in ‘When You Can No Longer Speak, Sing Me a Song,’ the artist’s solo exhibition at No Gallery
In the experimental play ‘4,000 Dollars,’ the streets of New York City are a fiscal fight club
Document joins playwright and director Georgica Pettus and producer Ashby Bland to discuss the art of numbers, spending money, and language systems
Lilly Wachowski’s manifesto on New Mythologies
In this exclusive essay for Document’s Spring/Summer 2024 issue, the painter and filmmaker takes a look at the challenges on our horizon, and finds the...
Funto Omojola’s cosmological reckonings
Hair, plastic, clay, and pictures come together to challenge conceptions of illness and image at the artist and poet’s photography installation at A.I.R. Gallery
Bela Borsodi’s ‘Birth Life Death’ invents new dynamics for inanimate objects
On view at The Corner Gallery in upstate New York, the photographer’s mischievous exhibition creates existential language from the everyday
Jennifer Rochlin and Jennifer Guidi keep each other curious
On the occasion of Rochlin’s exhibition ‘Paintings on Clay’ at Hauser and Wirth, the two artists talk about friendship, collaboration, and the potency of nature
The mother and the monster in Catalina Ouyang’s ‘Trick’
Currently on view at Lyles and King, the sculptor’s latest show references everything from fox spirits to early 17th-century bridles in an installation as ethereal...
Elisabetta Zangrandi creates her own art-historical canon
The Italian painter’s latest solo exhibition ‘Musée Imaginaire’ looks to past generations of women artists to stage a new present
Inside the New York Live Arts 2024 gala
Artists were front and center at the institution’s annual Live Ideas fundraising event, centered on the role of creativity in shaping our collective future
Kristen Wentrcek and Andrew Zebulon find inspiration at the DMV
In the art-design duo’s studio, references to bodies and buildings meet unexpected material experimentation
Mara Mckevitt’s cult of persona
The artist and filmmaker joins Whitney Mallett, founding editor of ‘The Whitney Review’ to discuss the artifice of authorship through her alter-ego Val
Bill T. Jones and Hank Willis Thomas reanimate creative freedom
The choreographer and conceptualist challenge the categories and moralities of the artist for Document’s Spring/Summer 2024
Shahzia Sikander transforms time into a medium
In an exclusive portfolio for Document Journal’s Spring/Summer 2024 issue, the artist merges the present, past, and possible
Guerreiro do Divino Amor builds a Helvetian Olympus at the 60th Venice Biennale
The multimedia artist transforms the Swiss Pavilion into a dark and glitzy critique of Switzerland’s self-conjured mythology
For Tyler Matthew Oyer, queerness is a cosmic dance
In their performance ‘Venus 2.0,’ the LA-based interdisciplinary artist explores the relationship between the body, raving, and outer space
Inside BoND, the New York architecture and interiors office reshaping the art world and beyond
Design duo Noam Dvir and Daniel Rauchwerger marry form with fantasy in striking spaces
Silence sizzles in ‘Tiptoeing Through the Kitchen’, Luhring Augustine’s latest group show
The exhibition delves into the mysteries and emotions buried beneath the surface of a photograph
Inside the secret libidinal archive of George Platt Lynes
Director Sam Shahid joins photographer Bruce Weber to discuss the artist’s clandestine homoerotic nudes, documented in his new film ‘Hidden Master’
