Trevor Paglen wants you to stop seeing like a human
The artist on CIA-funded facial recognition technology, images in the post-truth era, and why AI is its own form of politics
‘myselves’: 4 artists on interpreting the body in the age of pandemic
Loie Hollowell, Jesse Mockrin, Xiuching Tsay, and Naotaka Hiro, whose work is featured in a Kohn Gallery group exhibition, on the shifting foundations of identity
Banksy’s driver and photographer reveals the art world’s most mysterious man
Steve Lazarides's second volume of 'Banksy Captured' shows the enigmatic artist in a new light
Meet American Artist, the artist who ‘looted’ the Whitney
At the intersection of racial identity and technology, Artist prompts us to consider issues of Black labor and visibility within a networked world
Donald Judd’s radical departure from monochrome
For our Spring/Summer 2020 issue, a close look at the artist’s annotated preparatory collages for his colorful late sculpture
Getting Out: Art Omi, the sculpture park that will make you feel joy again
"We're creating pieces that can be explored and interacted with": Omi’s vast pastures are teeming with flora, fauna, and experiential art
Fashion from Isolation: 5 designers create looks using only household items
Document's favorite creatives show us the avant garde power of toothpaste and potato crisps
Watch a computer algorithm teach an amateur dancer ballet
As image-manipulation technology becomes increasingly potent, artist duo Ida Jonsson and Simon Saarinen speculate on the rise of superhumans
5 artists tell us the hardships—and benefits—of creating in isolation
Lyle Ashton Harris, Luis Flores, Richard Wyatt Jr., Robert Pruitt, and Timothy Washington discuss how the lockdown transformed their practice
Lina Iris Viktor’s manifesto for creativity in the age of pandemic
"We live to work": The artist on finding space to feel amid art-world demands for constant output
Artist Christopher Wool confronts the stark reality of a pandemic
On a special edition artist cover for Document Issue 16, the artist captures the anarchic energy of a world in crisis
“When I look at you, do you see me?” Painter Amoako Boafo urges us to consider the complexities of blackness
For Document No. 16, curator Osei Bonsu spoke with the painter about his upbringing in Ghana, creating space for black expression in Vienna, and balancing...
Artist Mel Bochner obscures words to reveal their dangerous potential
"All abuses of power begin with the abuse of language.” On a limited edition cover for Document's Spring/Summer 2020 issue, Bochner responds to the pandemic...
See 30 years of Glen Luchford’s photography in this virtual gallery
The exhibition showcases the true range of Luchford’s work—from his gritty ’90s images to his exuberant Gucci collaborations
Judy Chicago illustrates a cautionary tale for our post-COVID future
On a special edition artist cover for Document Issue 16, Chicago warns, ‘We must change course or we are DOOMED.’
Julia Weist’s ‘Public Record’ reveals the long history between New York City and its artists
As the Public Artist in Residence with the Department of Records and Information Services, Weist invites New Yorkers to consider the civic value of art
Artists for Humans, the underground initiative leveraging art to protect New York’s most vulnerable
With the help of fellow artists and donors, painter Hannah Beerman has raised upward of $130,000 for pandemic relief
Lucien Smith and Brad Phillips on the death of art world elitism
“I would love to have someone be critical”: The artists discuss Instagram, provocateurs, and fostering the next generation
Photographer Mateo Arciniegas captures a return to his Colombian homeland
"Maybe what I found ordinary is long gone": The 10-year journey to discover a lost sense of identity
Edgar Heap of Birds reveals the profound importance of the collective
Art From Isolation: 11 Illustrators visualize our new dystopian reality
Ian Grandjean, Simone Noronha, and more respond to the loneliness, introspection, and unexpected joys found in quarantine
Judy Chicago’s 1983 sketches still threaten the patriarchy
The artist speaks to Nancy Princenthal about environmentalism and how she used fashion to expand our concept of the divine
The creative community rallies to support NYC’s frontline workers
AMASS.life is selling affordable prints from over 100 artists, including Brad Elterman and Janette Beckman, with all proceeds going to the COVID-19 Emergency Relief Fund
Meet the radical Desi artists of South Africa’s Kutti Collective
'We are transcending what the expected ‘Indian’ experience is.' Caroline Mackintosh talks to 9 artists reclaiming the power of their identities
Celebrating our essential humanity in the paintings of Jordan Casteel
'Art for art's sake': How Casteel uses portraiture to connect with the beauty of her communities
Performance Art From Isolation: 10 artists share a microcosm of their immediate world
Uplifting, meditative, and downright freaky video pieces from Richard Kennedy, Chloe Wise, and more
Ja’Tovia Gary’s radical Black feminist filmmaking
The artist captures the breadth of Black womanhood in her video installation 'The Giverny Suite'
A walking tour of Shoreditch with Dr Noki, London’s original king of DIY
In 'The NOKImentary' the artist discusses the subversive power of customization
‘Young, Gifted and Black’ spotlights the multitude of black artists defining the contemporary art scene
Artist Tunji Adeniyi-Jones and collector Bernard Lumpkin discuss inclusivity and the evolving relationship between artists and institutions
Drew Sawyer reflects on art history in the Hudson Valley
As part of Birkenstock’s 1774 collaboration series, Document Journal meets 10 creatives making the Hudson Valley a kingdom of their own. Photography curator Drew Sawyer...
Michele Saunders on the differences between the rhythm of big-city life and small-town pace
As part of Birkenstock’s 1774 collaboration series, Document Journal meets 10 creatives making the Hudson Valley a kingdom of their own. Moving upstate has offered...
Kinderhook Farm advocates for sustainability and community in the Hudson Valley
As part of Birkenstock’s 1774 collaboration series, Document Journal meets 10 creatives making the Hudson Valley a kingdom of their own. Hear how the farm...
Derrick Adams crafts a tribute to Patrick Kelly, the fashion designer who centered race on the runway
The artist reimagines Kelly's Princess Diana-approved designs as innovative sculptural works.
Artist Frank Holliday wants to trigger you
The painter's vivid, passionate works will make you feel alive.
The DIY magic of Art-Rite, the magazine that redefined the 1970s art scene
Featuring works by Genesis P-Orridge, Patti Smith, and Laurie Anderson, Art-Rite embodied the anarchic free-for-all that was Downtown New York.
Sam Fayed’s absurdist deep-fakes turn estate photography into art
The multimedia artist fights fear and isolation with manufactured authenticity.
Colette founder Sarah Andelman finds sanctuary in tie-dye, nature-filled Woodstock
As part of Birkenstock’s 1774 collaboration series, Document Journal meets 10 creatives making the Hudson Valley a kingdom of their own. Here, the Parisian tastemaker...
Cultural appropriation is bad, but we wouldn’t have hip hop without it
From viral dances to ‘American Dirt,’ author Lauren Michele Jackson explains the difference between creative evolution and cultural theft.
What does Kim Jones’s taste in art say about the Dior Men’s designer?
Kim Jones's curated selection of works for a Sotheby’s auction included works by Cindy Sherman, Donald Judd, and Richard Prince.
Tracey Ryans on trading the glitz and glam of New York for rural Rhinebeck
As part of Birkenstock’s 1774 collaboration series, Document Journal meets 10 creatives making the Hudson Valley a kingdom of their own. Tracey Ryans, the entrepreneur...
Justin Vivian Bond is the Upstate goth in the chambeige minivan
As part of Birkenstock’s 1774 collaboration series, Document Journal meets 10 creatives making the Hudson Valley a kingdom of their own. Near Hudson, the performer...
Olaf Breuning refreshes his cheeky creativity in the Hudson River Valley
As part of Birkenstock’s 1774 collaboration series, Document Journal meets 10 creatives making the Hudson Valley a kingdom of their own. Here, Olaf Breuning talks...
Vaginal Davis killed the video star with her ‘terrorist drag’
Revisiting ‘The White to be Angry,’ the parody proto-visual album that lampooned Woody Allen, Clive Barker, and Bruce LaBruce
Olaf Breuning’s attempt to brainwash you with nature
The Swiss artist wants to raise environmental awareness with his latest exhibition at Carbon 12 in Dubai.
Samuel Jablon and Mark Flood talk dirty words, hedonism, psychotropic drugs
The artists find common cause in slowing down the ‘Chelsea shuffle.’
Before DNA kits and deepfakes, Nancy Burson used morphed images to reveal fundamental truths
Burson’s photographs of missing children and powerful dictators helped us see things we otherwise couldn’t imagine. 50 years later, her work is still unsettling.
‘Tech-bro X Margaret Thatcher’: artist Simon Denny drops the ultimate anti-capitalist collab
Denny spoke to Document about the politics of power dressing and how Thatcher's neo-liberalism shaped Silicon Valley.
Jesper Just’s enigmatic vision of our technological dystopia
In his new work ‘Corporealités,’ the artist explores cyborg theory with dancers from the American Ballet Theater.
In the ’60s, America’s wearable art movement reflected true counterculture
‘Off the Wall: American Art to Wear’ remembers the woman-led rebellion against social conformity and the elitist art establishment.
