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.
10 extraordinary creators imagine life on the Moon in Document’s ‘Lunar Portfolio’
Lexus, Nike, OMA, DJ Honey Dijon, and more share their visions for what our future among the stars might hold in this portfolio for Document's...
Artist Miles Greenberg performs his darkest nightmares with absurdist glamour
The mentee of Marina Abramović on his debut show and making art in solidarity with his fellow Gen-Z 'apocalypse babes.'
Haegue Yang counters sensory and linguistic isolation with a new artistic grammar
The artist tells a visual story of kinship between humans and hardware with multi-sensory collages for Document's Fall/Winter 2019 issue.
Mickalene Thomas recreates the sparkling dance parties and radical black aesthetic of the ’70s and ’80s
The artist enlists emerging artists and musicians in an immersive tribute to her mother at Miami's Bass Museum.
Why museums are on the front lines of discovering the boundaries between semantics and substantive change
The politics of language is affecting art institutions, from honoring Ancient Roman same-sex relationships to reckoning with an imperialist legacy.
The body as spectacle: Hayv Kahraman’s contorted female forms personify trauma and resistance
The artist examines the human ability to reemerge from oppressive states in this portfolio for Document's Fall/Winter 2019 issue.
In ‘Gateways,’ Shawn Kuruneru merges the intimate, ancient traditions of ink and fragrance
The artist shares an ink-on-paper series inspired by Celine Haute Parfumerie for Document's Fall/Winter 2019 issue.
Michèle Lamy on taking her love affair with Comme des Garçons to the dance floor
Boxing, voguing, and en pointe ballet—Behind her legendary Performa collaboration with artist Cecilia Bengolea.
‘Love in the Time of Hysteria’—3 Miami Basel artists reflect on artistic freedom in a world of social chaos
Mikhaile Solomon's PRIZM returns to Miami Art Week, providing artists of the African diaspora a platform to exhibit their work without restriction.
Jacolby Satterwhite’s unwavering mission to honor his mother’s artistic legacy
Using the recordings, lyrics, and art his mother produced over her lifetime, the artist collaborated with Teengirl Fantasy's Nick Weiss and cellist Patrick Belaga on...
Frida Escobedo and Pedro Reyes look to the future to save Mexico’s lost past
The architect and artist discuss the decolonization of culture and honoring tradition through innovation in Document's Fall/Winter 2019 issue.
Jordan Nassar’s new apartment exhibition lives between the Israel, Palestine binary
A Palestinian-American artist ruminates on intersecting identities at his “new home” in Tel-Aviv.
Art, decadence, and religion: Francesco Vezzoli reinterprets a French literary legend at Musee D’Orsay
An exhibition exploring the many artistic stages of Joris-Karl Huysmans, as seen by Italian artist Francesco Vezzoli for Document Fall/Winter 2019.
Photographer Farah Al Qasimi channels her insider-outsider experiences into lyrical, anti-imperialist art
Document visited the artist's Bushwick studio, where Al Qasimi opened up about culture shock, the gendered nature of exorcisms, and why she's done being pigeonholed...
Performa revives the legacy of Oskar Schlemmer, the Bauhaus’s avant-garde theater visionary
The groundbreaking painter, sculptor, designer, choreographer, and Bauhaus teacher was honored at the New York biennial's wildly creative gala last week.
Pope.L layers performances and haunted places to question dominant historical narratives
Coinciding with the artist's on-going show at the Whitney, Document revisits 'The Escape,' a profound meditation on space, convention, and liberation, in Document F/W 2019.
Artist Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi reveals—and defies—the white supremacist underpinnings of elite gymnastics
As Simone Biles becomes the most decorated athlete in sports, Nkosi tells Document about the implications of Black girls' success in elite gymnastics, which has...
William Selden’s ‘oil paintings’ aren’t quite what they seem
In a new exhibition, the fashion photographer (and fine artist) debuts his most exquisitely deceptive work.
