Performa founder RoseLee Goldberg and artist Shirin Neshat reflect on the performance art biennial
Performance art maven RoseLee Goldberg meets Shirin Neshat at her downtown New York home and discuss taking risks and performance art’s place in art history.
Paul Solberg’s Ten Years in Pictures
This season, photographer Paul Solberg launches his latest book, Ten Years in Pictures, looking back at his past decade of picture making. Called both "powerful"...
Photography at MoMA
At the end of this month, The Museum of Modern Art, long considered the arbitor of contemporary photography, will release the first of a three...
A Visionary Debut: Carlo Lavagna’s ‘Arianna’
Hailed by Variety as “a strikingly presented debut,” Carlo Lavagna’s Arianna is a visionary film about an intersex post-adolescent (played by the ravishing Ondina Quadri),...
Raf Simons and the Flemish Masters
The creative director speaks on "forbidden fruit."
Willa Nasatir’s Spectral Images
New York-based artist Willa Nasatir makes seductive still lifes in which objects, bodies, and their traces meld into otherworldly photographic images. For the launch of...
Les Rencontres D’Arles 2015—Part Deux
In our second installment, Photographer Thomas Giddings and Art Editor Drew Sawyer sit down with some of the festival's most fascinating contributors, Natasha Caruana (exhibiting...
James Welling’s Wyeth Series at the Brandywine River Museum of Art
In 2010, the Connecticut-born artist James Welling began a series of photographs inspired by the paintings of Andrew Wyeth. Welling is known for numerous experiments...
Document reads: Chad Moore’s “June”
Chad Moore’s June, is a selection of photographs, arranged by color and filled with New York’s downtown art kids.
Revisiting “H {N)Y P N(Y} OSIS” by Philippe Parreno at the Armory
The exhibition H {N)Y P N(Y} OSIS which closed last week, was something of a love letter from the French artist Philippe Parreno to the...
Les Rencontres d’Arles 2015—Part Un
Document travels to Arles, France, for the influential photography festival, Les Rencontres d'Arles and visits with some of the festival's most compelling contributors.
José Parlá: Segmented Realities
Despite the humidity and the showers that plagued New York last week, a crowd of well-wishers and art enthusiasts filled the Standard Plaza at the...
Yuta Nakajima and Madeline Warren on ‘Passing Leap’ at Hauser & Wirth
During the summer months, when many residents escape the oppressive heat of the city, New York galleries have the chance to break out of their...
Photographer Collier Schorr recalls her meeting with Fran Lebowitz 30 years later
Fran Lebowitz and I were born three days and 13 years apart, which means we are both Scorpios. We are both from New Jersey, though...
Volatile Smile: A Conversation with Beate Geissler and Oliver Sann
Beate Geissler and Oliver Sann are both a couple and multi-media artist duo, collaborating since 1996. After a high frequency trading company threatened to sue...
Video and performance visionary Charles Atlas speaks with young artist Stewart Uoo
Charles Atlas discusses developing the genre of video dance with Stewart Uoo in Issue No. 6.
The Stroke of a New Era: Maison Margiela
Artist Aurore de la Morinerie paints John Galliano’s debut haute couture collection for Maison Margiela for Document Issue 6.
Alex Da Corte: When the Whip Falls
Taking inspiration from a Wikipedia entry, artist Alex Da Corte envisages post-internet pop scenes of household objects in a new series, Cat o’ Nine Tails,...
Gavin Brown’s enterprise bids farewell to its West Village Gallery with Jannis Kounellis
Gavin Brown’s enterprise, the perennially hip downtown art gallery, recently announced it would be moving to Amsterdam Ave. and 126th Street, adjacent to Columbia University’s...
Lauren Cornell in Conversation with Cory Arcangel
Lauren Cornell, Curator and Associate Director of Technology Initiatives at the New Museum, chats with post-conceptual artist Cory Arcangel in Issue No. 6.
The Art of Collaboration with Juergen Teller
Bottega Veneta continues their Art of Collaboration series for the Fall/Winter 2015 campaign enlisting photographer Juergen Teller. Have a look at the film above.
En Plein Air: New York’s Artists Residencies
Escaping the city life is a powerful lure for artists seeking reinvigoration. Many residencies offer scenic environs in which to ensconce oneself and make art—which...
A Visit to LISTE 2015
Celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, LISTE used to be called the “The Young Art Fair in Basel,” but it has since grown up and...
Document’s 10 Must-Sees at Art Basel 2015
Art Basel runs like a Swiss clock, flawlessly operated and enjoying its 46th edition. At the helm is the French-American director Marc Spiegler; if ever...
“Love each other”: Maripol & Léonard Lasry
Document contributor and famed Polaroid artist Maripol sits down with Léonard Lasry, the French songwriter, music producer, and co-owner of the sunglasses brand Thierry Lasry,...
On View: Yayoi Kusama’s Give Me Love at David Zwirner Gallery
Yayoi Kusama’s current exhibition Give Me Love at the David Zwirner Gallery is a visual trip: pumpkin sculptures are covered in polka dots; large paintings...
The Various Visions of Stephen Posen
In Stephen Posen’s first monograph Ellipsis: Dual Vision, meaning is created through the pairing of photographs. The collection as a whole abandons narrative in favor...
Goldrush at the Fondazione Prada
In a drab neighborhood in southern Milan, far behind the Porta Romana train station, peeks something gold. It's the centerpiece of Fondazione Prada Milano, an...
Printed Matter: An Oral History
Current and past members of the non-profit artists' bookstore reflect on the beginnings of Printed Matter and it's enduring significance.
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.
