Bjarne Melgaard’s Art Basel Survival Guide
Bjarne Melgaard shares his Art Basel Miami survival guide.
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...
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...
Katherine Hubbard at Capricious 88
The provisional state of Utah was once known as Deseret, a pretty name from the Book of Mormon to describe a semi-autonomous territory that never...
Poetics in Plaster: Thomas Houseago’s “Moun Room” at Hauser & Wirth
Hauser & Wirth's new installation by Thomas Houseago, “Moun Room,” is immediately arresting, drawing us into a 40,000 square-foot, sky-lit hangar. Reminiscent of visual labyrinths...
How AMMA Studio creates ‘Objects of Desire’ from everyday objects
AMMA Studio takes the ordinary—cement, coffee, salt, metal, wood—and transforms these materials into enduring objects that merge sculpture with design, featured in Document's Fall/Winter 2014...
HalloQueens With MoMA/PS1 and Susanne Bartsch
To be able to photograph the most beautiful people at HalloQueens with Susanne Bartsch and MoMA/PS1 was such a special moment. Looking through my lens...
Sturtevant’s Double Trouble
Artist Sturtevant challenged the notions of authorship by making versions of the works of contemporaries including Andy Warhol, James Rosenquist, Jasper Johns, and Marcel Duchamp....
Store Opening: A.P.C. Melrose Place
Last week, A.P.C. feted the launch of its new Melrose Place flagship with a party for guests that include Kanye West, Waris Ahluwalia, and Jean...
Doll Parts: Hilton Als Recalls Some of His Most Poignant Memories of Artist Greer Lankton
I’m trying to remember the specifics of Greer, the way her legs and arms moved in her summer dresses. Because that’s the season I associate...
Between the Lines: The Hermès Nautilus Pen
Hermès launched the latest addition to its writing instruments series, the Nautilus pen, at the fashion house’s Madison Avenue flagship store last week. Attendees—including Fern...
Modelogue: Georgia Hilmer’s Fashion Month, Part Seven
Georgia Hilmer studies literature and writing at N.Y.U.’s Gallatin School, models, and makes photographs.
Cookie Mueller Returns
Cookie Mueller must come back. Star of an underground art circuit that insisted, and still insists, that bad taste is the only taste worth having,...
Exclusive Excerpt—“Track Star” by Andrew Durbin
Andrew Durbin's new book Mature Themes freely shifts between deep thoughts on the film Clueless or pop star Katy Perry to discussions on the theorist...
Modelogue: Georgia Hilmer’s Fashion Month, Part Six
Georgia Hilmer studies literature and writing at N.Y.U.’s Gallatin School, models, and makes photographs.
Modelogue: Georgia Hilmer’s Fashion Month, Part Five
Georgia Hilmer studies literature and writing at N.Y.U.’s Gallatin School, models, and makes photographs.Georgia Hilmer studies literature and writing at N.Y.U.’s Gallatin School, models, and...
Modelogue: Georgia Hilmer’s Fashion Month, Part Four
Georgia Hilmer studies literature and writing at N.Y.U.’s Gallatin School, models, and makes photographs.
From the Editors—F/W 2014
Document No. 5 is a special issue, the marker of our second anniversary. We’ve asked our amazing contributors to celebrate the journey we’ve been sharing...
Modelogue: Georgia Hilmer’s Fashion Month, Part Three
Georgia Hilmer studies literature and writing at N.Y.U.’s Gallatin School, models, and makes photographs.
Modelogue: Georgia Hilmer’s Fashion Month, Part Two
Georgia Hilmer studies literature and writing at N.Y.U.’s Gallatin School, models, and makes photographs.
Georgia Hilmer’s Fashion Month, Part One
Georgia Hilmer studies literature and writing at N.Y.U.’s Gallatin School, models, and makes photographs.
Modelogue: Georgia Hilmer’s Fashion Month, Part One
Georgia Hilmer studies literature and writing at N.Y.U.’s Gallatin School, models, and makes photographs.
A first by Cartier—The Diver Watch, Calibre de Cartier
Embracing extreme conditions, Cartier introduces its first ever Dive watch, matched to withstand up to 300 meters of water while still maintaining its sleek and...
The Saint Laurent Toile Monogram
Every iconic luxury house, holds a unique signature or historic monogrammed trademark that becomes synonymous with the brand over the many years. In 1961, artist...
“An L.A. Sort of Place”—Paul Jasmin at Casa de Costa
While Paul Jasmin himself is a Montana native, his work featured in Casa de Costa’s exhibition, An L.A. Sort of Place, pays homage to the...
Repossi’s White Noise Permeates New York’s Dover Street Market
At a glance, Repossi’s White Noise collection looks like a wearable audio-spectrum readout, though Corbusian architecture and Alexander Calder’s mobiles were also points of reference.
Henzel Studio, the artisan rug manufacturer that counts Helmut Lang and Mickalene Thomas among its collaborators
The company asked curator Joakim Andreasson to select 12 contemporary artists to provide radical new designs to change their objets from interior design into works of...
Artist Pierre Soulages crafts post-war reflections in black
One of the most well-regarded French artists of his time staged his first state-side retrospective in 2014. A selection of these artworks featured in Document's...
Exclusive Video—“White Paintings” by Collier Schorr
In Collier Schorr’s exclusive video, White Paintings, the artist explores the relationship between black and white stills with color motion film. The result is a...
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...
Preview Photographer Chad Pitman’s debut book, “Valley Pines”
Preview Photographer Chad Pitman's debut book, "Valley Pines"
Larry Clark’s Photographs, for $100 Apiece
Irreverent filmmaker and photographer Larry Clark will be selling a selection of photographs at Los Angeles's Ooga Booga Gallery for $100 each. Although his fine-art...
The Downtown Handbag Line With a Can’t-Stop Mentality
It's no secret that New Yorkers can be out and about for (at least) 18 hour days, hopping from the gym to work to dinner...
Isa Genzken investigates the alchemy that occurs when object meets life in ’70s Berlin
On the eve of her first major U.S. retrospective at MoMA, the German artist shared an intimate selection of never-before-seen works for Document's Fall/Winter 2013...
Vanessa Beecroft stages an elaborate human tableau
The artist known for staging larger-than-life human performances, shares an intimate polaroid diary as she prepares to stage her largest performance to date for Document's...
From ‘Let Me In’ to ‘The Road,’ actor Kodi Smit-McPhee is brings a strength beyond his years
The actor, to paraphrase Britney Spears, is not a boy, not yet a man. He speaks about bringing a chilling, otherworldly authenticity to his roles...
‘Infidels,’ or falling in love with Marilyn Monroe: a work of fiction by Abdellah Tai
Cinema was invented for this. To make us see our mothers in a different light. To have them forever. To share them without holding back. Without any jealousy.
Maurizio Anzeri’s ‘needle heads’ turn nostalgic subjects into alien bodies
The London-based artist stitches on vintage portraits, creating vibratory networks. He shares his work for Document's Fall/Winter 2012 issue.
Isaac Mizrahi unites his creative threads through cabaret
Best known as a fashion designer, Mizrahi thrives on immediate connection to a live audience—on the runway or the stage. Troy Chatterton sits down with the...
Bookmarc curates the ultimate collection of artbooks
A peek inside the books documenting the lives and work of artists who defined New York, from Document's Fall/Winter 2012 issue.
