Mark Armijo McKnight’s ‘Decreation’ undoes the self
The artist’s solo exhibition at The Whitney invokes existential landscapes as sites for unbecoming
Borderlands: Mitch Epstein’s portfolio of America’s changing physical and social landscape
From gun-toting ranchers to sweeping mountain vistas, the photographer unravels the implicit and explicit politics of the US-Mexico border.
Ming Smith’s ‘Strange Fruit’ reveals the specters of American history
The photographer’s experiments in shadow and light reform gender and racial boundaries in a portfolio for Document S/S 2019.
Liz Johnson Artur captures black love and non-binary nightlife in London
The Russian-Ghanaian photographer presents her portfolio ‘Return to Forever’ for Document's Fall/Winter 2018 issue.
Katharina Grosse rejects your idea that painting is archaic
Known for work that takes place on a captivating scale, the painter discusses a technique that operates far beyond the realm of one dimension for...
Pieter Hugo on ‘Victory of Youth,’ his exclusive collaboration with Nike and Riccardo Tisci
The acclaimed photographer sits down with art editor Drew Sawyer to discuss his exclusive latest work for Nike and Document Books
Tartan, Geneva, New York by Lyle Ashton Harris
Lyle Ashton Harris revisits his archive to document "ephemeral moments" of the 1980's and 90's for this Document portfolio
Sam Contis Studies Male Seclusion
Document's Drew Sawyer speaks with the photographer about her new exhibition at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.
“The Crosby Hotel Suite Drawings” by George Condo
See the exclusive portfolio from Document's SS 2017 issue, timed with an extensive survey of the artist at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C.
Douglas Crimp and Malik Gaines on Queer Liberation and the Decline of Radicalism
The cultural critic and artist discuss Crimp's new memoir "Before Pictures" in issue no. 9 of Document.
Lanvin’s Lucas Ossendrijver speaks of space and the functionality of design with artist Oscar Tuazon.
The longtime friends met to discuss the craft of fashion and creating a place of one's own.
Documentary Practices: Quentin Bajac & LaToya Ruby Frazier
MoMA chief curator of photography Quentin Bajac and artist LaToya Ruby Frazier explore the role of photography.
New African Photography
Saturday, May 7th, marks the curatorial debut between Red Hook Labs and new global media platform Nataal, highlighting contemporary African photography, fashion, music, and arts.
Surface and Depth
Ahead of photographer Willa Nasatir's first solo exhibition at Albright-Knox, Document presents an exclusive portfolio of her work.
An Inaugural Opening; Benoît Platéus at Skibum MacArthur
Like so many artists and art dealers, Kibum Kim—a lawyer, a faculty member of Art Business at Sotheby's Institute of Art, and the co-founder of...
The Not So Simple Life: Buck Ellison on his solo show “Country Day”
Drew Sawyer chatted with the Buck Ellison about his current solo exhibition, Country Day.
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...
Using written language, Jenny Holzer asks us to question mass media portrayals of the ‘war on terror’
The artist meditates on biased media, state-sanctioned torture, and government censorship in this Document exclusive portfolio from the Fall/Winter 2015 issue.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Shandaken Project Three-Year Retrospective
Architect Peter Marino Selects Rarely Seen Images From Tom of Finland’s Own Archive for Document
Peter Marino selects rarely seen images from Tom of Finland’s own archive for Document, and traces the artist’s influence on Robert Mapplethorpe and himself.
Day With(out) Art
December 1st marks the 25th anniversary of Day With(out) Art, a program initiated by Visual AIDS in 1989 as a day of action and remembrance...
Avery Singer’s Computer World
The artist realizes performative figures within unrealized buildings, created with Google SketchUp and rendered by hand. She shares these works in Document's Fall/Winter 2014 issue.
Anne Collier—woman with a camera
The artist's first museum survey, organized by the MCA Chicago, highlights her unique contribution to 21st-century art while looking to the visual culture of the...
Robert Heinecken implicates himself in a vast system of sex, money, and power with his ‘comprimised’ magazines
A portfolio from Document's Spring/Summer 2014 issue pays tribute to the pioneer of appropriation art whose his altered magazines, culled directly from mass media and...
An Art Showdown at Paramount Ranch
During the last weekend in January, while visitors flocked to Printed Matter's LA Art Book Fair downtown, more adventurous and in-the-know art lovers made the...
