20 years later, ‘United States of Attica’ is still a rallying cry for prison reform
Alife® and the Brooklyn Museum teamed to bring Faith Ringgold’s seminal work to a new audience for its inaugural Black History Month capsule collection.
Penny Slinger invites us to unveil the feminine psyche in a new tantric exhibition
The British artist draws from Surrealism to empower women to reclaim their “birthright” to sexual expression and deconstruct oppressive structures of power.
Finding my Filipino identity in Maia Cruz Palileo’s art
Document senior editor Ann Binlot writes on her search for representation of her Filipino heritage only to find it through the art of contemporary artist...
Tabitha Soren sees America’s collective anxiety in our fingerprint-stained screens
In her new project ‘Surface Tension,’ Tabitha Soren suggests our digital-era anxiety can actually bring us closer together.
How Susan Hiller turned the occult into radical art
Looking back at the impact of the anthropologist turned ‘paraconceptual’ art pioneer, who passed away this week at 78.
The artist too radical for 18th century Paris finally gets an exhibition
Centuries after his death, Jean-Jacques Lequeu's haunting sketches of architecture and erotica are finally being celebrated.
Gianni Lee and Elise Peterson on Black art and brainstorming the future
The artists discuss communal responsibility and imagine Black futures through their work and experience.
Piers Secunda turns back time on ISIS’ cultural destruction
Armed with industrial floor paint the artist is working to repair Iraq's bullet-ridden cultural artifacts and reconnect us with our cultural past.
The surrealist film noir set in the aftermath of Trump’s inauguration
Josephine Meckseper weaves Trump’s inauguration and the Women’s March that followed into a new iteration of Maurice Maeterlinck’s Pelléas et Mélisande.
Filmmaker Jonas Mekas Skypes with Hans Ulrich Obrist about the rise of the .net generation
Document is very sorry to hear of the passing of the wonderful and revolutionary Jonas Mekas, known as the godfather of American avant-garde cinema.
Cheryl Donegan, 90s video provocateur, opens a show about air conditioners
The feminist icon opened her latest exhibition, GRLZ + VEILS at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston in homage to New York's air conditioner grills.
Backstage at Dior Men’s Fall 2019 show
Just weeks after his cyborg-chic Tokyo extravaganza, Kim Jones teams up with Raymond Pettibon for an equally futuristic Fall/Winter 2019.
AES+F’s techno-feminist reimagining of ‘Turandot’
The Russian art collective and director Fabio Cherstich strip the Orientalism from Puccini's famous opera, setting it in the multi-ethnic matriarchy of 2070 Beijing.
Ondine Viñao’s beautiful, disturbing clown videos exorcise childhood trauma
Pulling inspiration from Bruce Nauman’s iconic “Clown Torture” videos, Viñao’s “Holy Fools” experiments with torture as a form of exposure therapy.
Stendhal Syndrome: can art be so beautiful it almost kills you?
Psychiatrists delve into the elusive science behind the 'art attack.'
Supreme super-collector Ryan Fuller reveals the stories behind your favorite decks
Supreme's entire 248-deck history is currently on view at Sotheby's for a staggering $2 million
Eric N. Mack challenges conventional painting at the Brooklyn Museum
The painter dives in on his experience as a black man from DC metro area influenced by art and fashion in his new Brooklyn Museum...
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer explores human identity in our hyper-connected world
As part of the Document Journal x Prada Mode conversation series at Art Basel in Miami Beach, we highlight six visionary artists changing the future...
Paul Soulellis turns the internet into tangible art
As part of the Document Journal x Prada Mode conversation series at Art Basel in Miami Beach, we highlight six visionary artists changing the future...
Mina Cheon is sending art lessons into North Korea, and sharing Choco Pie with the world
As part of the Document Journal x Prada Mode conversation series at Art Basel in Miami Beach, we highlight six visionary artists changing the future...
Artists Nestor Siré and Julia Weist on Cuba’s underground internet market—and its promise of mobile WiFi
As part of the Document Journal x Prada Mode conversation series at Art Basel in Miami Beach, we highlight six visionary artists changing the future...
Social climbing at Art Basel in Miami Beach
Michael the III takes us through the "who's who" of the art world and his groundbreaking shawarma plate installation in booth A13.
Document and Prada discuss the future of offline media and online identities
At Art Basel in Miami Beach, Document Journal hosted two panels which explored different perspectives from around the globe to reveal the inner workings of...
Raúl de Nieves creates a magical carousel with Bulgari and Art Production Fund
Raúl de Nieves's ‘When I Look Into Your Eyes I See the Sun’ is on view at the Faena Hotel South Beach through the end...
Jeremy Kost’s paint-streaked Polaroids of nude men
In ‘Isolated But Not Alone,’ the artist turns Polaroids into paint-streaked art pieces, a commentary on the current social (and social media) climate.
Studio visit: Eddie Martinez whites out his work inside his Bushwick space
Eddie Martinez met with Document ahead of his exhibition, White Outs, at The Bronx Museum.
Jenny Holzer’s powerful AIDS Day performance reminds us to keep fighting
For #LighttheFight, Jenny Holzer lit up New York streets with quotes from activists, writers, and politicians.
Wes Anderson and Juman Malouf bring their wondrous world to the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna
Wes Anderson and his partner Juman Malouf curated an exhibition featuring 5,000 years of art and antiquities from the collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna.
Artist Larry Bell tells architect Frank Gehry about his addiction to beginnings
Architect Frank Gehry and artist Larry Bell speak about their lifelong friendship and ruminate on the possibility of an unregulated art world for Document Fall/Winter...
Studio visit: Dan Colen draws the connection between Wile E. Coyote and the never-ending chase
Dan Colen's latest exhibition at Gagosian Beverly Hills, High Noon, features Warner Bros.-inspired desert landscapes
Liu Ye’s whimsical paintings take over Prada Rong Zhai in Shanghai
Storytelling features 30 paintings by Chinese artist Liu Ye at the Prada-restored mansion Rong Zhai in Shanghai.
Raf Simons, George Condo, and more collaborate on Anthony Roth Costanzo’s new operatic installation
Anthony Roth Costanzo teamed up with an all-star creative team that includes Cecilia Dean, James Kaliardos, Tilda Swinton, Ryan McNamara, and more on his latest...
Loie Hollowell’s bodily landscapes
Loie Hollowell's portfolio for Document's Fall/Winter 2018 issue marks a daring departure from the practice of early female abstractionists, reveling in the eroticism and ethereality...
Katharina Grosse takes us inside her first solo show in China
Katharina Grosse: Mumbling Mud looks at new frontiers in painting through a Chinese lens, and is on view at K11 in Shanghai through February 24,...
Model Jolie Alien discusses her first solo art exhibition
Document cover model Jolie Alien discusses her practice, process, and how it feels to open her first exhibition at Kino Gallery in Moscow.
The long, layered narrative of the Pacific Rim
The Detours section at Shanghai's Art021 examines the consequences of globalization and the return to regionalism in the Pacific Rim through the stories of its...
Ebony G. Patterson flashes her discordant opulence
Above, below, beneath provides a window into the political stakes of Ebony G. Patterson's decadent, intricate tapestries from Document's Fall/Winter 2018 issue.
Catherine Opie torches the American Dream
Catherine Opie highlights the dying American Dream through the narrative of an arsonist burning Los Angeles's majestic modernist structures.
Yayoi Kusama and Takashi Murakami consider legal action over fake Shanghai exhibition
The exhibition featuring counterfeit works by Yayoi Kusama and Takashi Murakami has been touring China since April 2018.
New York sees Andy Warhol’s “Shadows” for the first time since 1998
The Dia Art Foundation is presenting 48 canvases Andy Warhol's 1978-1979 "Shadow" series at Calvin Klein's headquarters through December 15.
Tavares Strachan edits history by placing Tupac Shakur’s name on the Carnegie Museum of Art
Artist Tavares Strachan placed "invisible" names like Fell, Monk, Lamarr, Norgay, and more alongside Rembrandt, Chopin, Franklin, and Darwin on the museum's façade for the...
Sterling Ruby’s Basin Theology
From his studio in Los Angeles, the artist created an exclusive portfolio—fusing garments with shards exploded in a kiln—for Document Spring/Summer 2014.
Michèle Lamy resurrects the zine in the name of outsider art
For a performance piece at the Outsider Art Fair Paris, Michèle Lamy created a live zine with Polaroids and a photocopier.
Museum visits to be prescribed by doctors in Canada
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) has partnered with Médecins francophones du Canada to offer patients and their caregivers free admission to the museum...
Love dolls don’t love you back
Laurie Simmons cast Japanese "Love Dolls" in Connecticut settings. Unlike their sexed-up American sisters, the wholesome fragility makes them all the more insidious. For the...
For Freedoms launches billboard campaign set to be “largest creative collaboration in US history”
Artists Theaster Gates, Trevor Paglen, Tania Brugera, Hank Willis Thomas, Rashid Johnson, encourage communities to be civically minded through through the billboards.
Kerry James Marshall created comic strip with black characters to show “it can be done”
Undaunted by the lack of black comic characters he saw as a child, African-American artist Kerry James Marshall created a few for the 57th Carnegie...
“I was not focused on commercial galleries”: Suellen Rocca on her practice, Hairy Who, and the Chicago art scene
Artist Suellen Rocca, who has work currently being shown in three exhibitions this fall at Matthew Marks, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Elmhurst...
Enrico David explores the human condition through shape and form
A 20-year survey of Enrico David's work is on view at the MCA Chicago through spring 2019.
