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.
Lucia Moholy, the photographer who immortalized the Bauhaus, finally gets her due
The artist meticulously documented the influential art school, but while her male cohorts became legends, her work was misappropriated and forgotten.
‘Deepfake’ is the post-feminist ‘Bladerunner’ for our selfie-obsessed culture
In a sensory unraveling of digital reality, Tara Subkoff's exhibition foresees a future where women have been replaced by robots
Getting weird with mystery Instagrammer Bread Face, the best performance artist you’ll never know
The anonymous artist behind @breadfaceblog on why sunlight is overrated, the cathartic joy of smashing your face into carbs, and why she doesn't care if...
Daniel Arnold, New York’s best-loved street photographer, takes us on a beautiful journey into his ‘crazy brain’
The writer-turned-photographer on his first solo show and why he sees the streets of New York as a perpetually exciting sandwich platter
Why do curators still equate the ‘queer experience’ with pain?
Suffering for our sexuality—In contemporary art, being queer looks authentic if it hurts
Easy, breezy, beautiful: Sara Cwynar’s ’Covergirl’ and the political economy of color
The 16mm short film investigates the relationship between color, cosmetics, and social capital.
500 years, 400 artists, and 54 countries: ‘Great Women Artists’ is the most extensive collection of female created art yet
Ocean's 8 of the art world: Ghada Amer, Sharon Hayes, Deana Lawson, and Martha Rosler took down the tired ‘female artist’ narrative at The Met...
‘Glenn O’Brien: Center Stage’: 17 artists pay homage to the late ‘Style Guy’
The exhibition, curated by Natacha Polaert, features pieces from Dan Colen, Ouattara Watts, and Walter Robinson, among others.
David Antonio Cruz, the artist giving LGTBQ victims of violence a place in art history
5 stories of heartbreak, cruelty, and vibrant, resilient spirit—told by Cruz and his colorful, floral portraits.
Studio visit: Sarah Sze investigates the way we experience time in her Hudson Yards studio
Sarah Sze shows Document around her Hudson Yards studio to see her exploration of the way people experience time through imagery.
4 artists comment on Bill Saylor’s primordial, uncanny allure
‘Bill Saylor is one of the last natural ones. The last wild man. I don’t think people are having kids like him anymore.’ Justin Lowe,...
The exhibition in Tulum inviting viewers to see, smell, and fight the effects of pollution
Sargasso seaweed is choking Mexican ocean and beaches. Here are the artists and scientist striving for solutions.
An afternoon in New Haven with Tschabalala Self, the artist with Louis Vuitton and Pilar Corrias at her feet
The artist spoke to Document about combatting misconceptions and what it's like to see your art auctioned for half a million and not see a...
Torkwase Dyson tells the history of black liberation through cartographic art
100 years after the Red Summer riots, the artist subverts the notion that abstract painting is non-narrative in her new show ‘1919: Black Water.’
Mark Leckey on ‘Fiorucci,’ folklore, and finding language for working-class stories
The artist explains why he built a giant motorway overpass in the Tate Britain—and why you shouldn't fuck with fairies.
The explosive rise—and inevitable downfall—of the East Village art scene
Marc H. Miller and Barry Blinderman reflect on the Village of the ’70s and ’80s, when Reaganomics inspired Keith Haring to stick it to the...
Chula the clown’s hysterical path to self-discovery
The Mexico City-based performer believes clowning can address very philosophical questions.
The secret world of images not meant for human eyes
In a new exhibition at Fondazione Prada, Trevor Paglen and Kate Crawford investigate AI’s political underpinnings.
Gia Coppola and Kelsey Lu turn literary works into art
“You are unlocking a secret garden." A new exhibition in Los Angeles investigates notions of authorship, identity, and inspiration.
Villa Lena: the 19th century Tuscan retreat freeing artists from the hustle mentality
Sam Rock, Jody Rogac, Freddy Tuppen, and Lucinda Chua discuss community, simplicity, and the importance of a 'sacred space'
‘Meet Me in the Bathroom: The Art Show’ resurrects rock-and-roll’s insurgent spirit
The Strokes, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, an actual bathroom. Lizzy Goodman gets the band back together on Bowery.
Peaches gives sentience to sex toys in her new exhibition, ‘Whose Jizz Is This?’
The iconic performer of ‘Fuck the Pain Away’ marries sex ed, humor, and politics: “I'm not asking everybody to have orgies, I'm just asking people...
Meet the artist spinning Snapchat stories into an interactive soundscape
Christian Marclay gives Snapchat renewed relevance with his LACMA exhibition.
‘All art is voyeuristic’: Lisa Yuskavage on the joy of provocation
Yuskavage's paintings of nude women and partially clothed girls have raised eyebrows for their perceived carnality. But her subjects never asked you to stare at...
Inside Arden Surdam’s licentious world of seafood, sex, and status
In ‘Offal | East,’ the artist makes the sophisticated look grotesque, and subverts the Eurocentric history of picnics.
A world without men: photos from the feminist lesbian utopias of ’80s America
Carmen Winant's ‘Notes on Fundamental Joy’ goes inside the womyn-only communities created across the Pacific Northwest.
An artist infiltrates The Hamptons’ cult of wellness
The Whitney Biennial-featured artist Ilana Harris-Babou uses the Hamptons and Restoration Hardware as anthropological playgrounds.
5 artists capturing the fluidity of human experience with watercolor
Document celebrates World Watercolor Month with Tschabalala Self, Mats Gustafson, and more.
Road-tripping with model and photographer Julia Campbell-Gillies
Emily Lipson photographs Campbell-Gillies on the Long Island Expressway, as the two discuss why fashion isn't ‘stupid girls playing dress up.’
Kiyan Williams and Amaryllis DeJesus Moleski on the audacity of art-making at the margins
"Blackness and queerness are just such expansive and deep wells of knowledge and inspiration. It’s a gift to be able to access that and create...
Are China’s contemporary artists the saviors of its cultural heritage?
As historical sites are bulldozed daily, artists at JINGART 2019 reflect on the importance of the past.
Exorcising the social media ghosts of relationships past
Elisha Lim's upcoming graphic novel decodes our post-breakup nightmares.
‘The Year of Return’: 5 Ghanaian artists sound off on Pan-African solidarity
Document explores the marketing initiative bringing celebrities, world leaders, and diaspora artists back to West Africa.
Diedrick Brackens weaves visual anthems for the yee-haw agenda
The textile artist explores black queer identity in his stunning, Southwestern tapestries.
Bali is designing a sustainable future and we should take notes
Good times and doing good at Future Design—where sustainable living stems from a harmonious relationship with the natural ecosystem.
