Humanoid robots transform visual artworks into sound waves at the Smithsonian
Made by Japanese firm SoftBank, "Peppers" will allow the visually impaired to experience art through sound at the Washington, DC museum.
Odysseus as a woman: Setting sail in search of Hermès’s Spring/Summer 2019 muse
Hermès artistic director Nadège Vanhee-Cybulski tapped artist Laurence Owen to create the nautical buttons throughout the collection.
“New Yorkers are strange and beautiful, just like toes”: Amit Greenberg marks the first US Birkenstock store
Birkenstock celebrates the opening of its first American retail outlet in New York through a collaboration with New York-based artist Amit Greenberg.
Jack Pierson automates his artistic impulses
The photographer and artist created this portfolio of golden watercolors as a push to get away from the brain and into the hand, a decompressing...
Marina Abramović attacked by artist in Florence “for his art”
A 51-year-old male Czech national smashed a portrait of performance artist Marina Abramović over her own head.
Wolfgang Tillmans questions himself in David Zwirner exhibition
“How likely is it that only I am right in this matter?” asks photographer Wolfgang Tillmans through abstract ink prints, raw portraiture, and his artful...
Jil Sander’s latest collection springs forth
As Jil Sander creative directors Lucie and Luke Meier draw from organic sources, artist JJ Guest looks return three looks from their Spring/Summer 2019 collection...
Steve McQueen to photograph an entire grade of school children across London
The artist and Oscar-winning filmmaker Steve McQueen has invited every London primary school to register for a date and time to have its students sit...
Damien Hirst’s secondary market is a “bloodbath”
Of the 19 original lots from Damien Hirst's record-breaking 2008 Sotheby's sale, 17 have depreciated, adding up to a total loss of almost $3 million.
Fashion as fantasy: Julian Louie figured out how to wear an entire collection at once
The artist and fashion designer collaged together all the looks from Louis Vuitton's and Dior's mens' Spring/Summer 2019 collections exclusively for Document Online.
A retrospective into Erwin Blumenfeld’s push for radical photography
Fine art photographer Erwin Blumenfeld’s mesmerizing techniques in and out of the darkroom graced the the world’s finest fashion publications. Vince Aletti explores the man...
Artist Luke Turner withdraws from Athens Biennale over heated Twitter fiasco
The co-founder of the #HeWillNotDivideUs roaming art project got into an intense Twitter battle with artist Daniel Keller, who defended artist Deanna Havas liking a...
What does AI-generated art look like?
An exhibition at Nature Morte in New Dehli showcases the artwork generated not by human hand, but by artificial intelligence.
Hermès and Pierre Charpin join forces for La Serpentine
The French designer and artist collaborated with Hermès to create window displays, scarves, and tabletop items.
Looking back at the ‘Beautiful Losers’
A new exhibition at The Hole celebrates the 10th anniversary of the documentary Beautiful Losers, which celebrated the 'broke artists' of New York's downtown scene...
Christelle De Castro zooms in on downtown NYC in ‘Citizens of the Bowery’
Christelle De Castro photographed and documented 60 denizens of the Bowery for the citizenM exhibition and documentary Citizens of the Bowery.
Rapper Killer Mike is the newest board member of Atlanta’s High Museum
The rapper and social activist is one of three fresh faces shaking things up at the High Museum of Art.
Nudists flock the Palais de Tokyo
One of Paris’s most prestigious contemporary art collections opened its doors for the first time to a very marginalized group of culture lovers.
The photographer who made the biggest names of the 20th century beautiful
Portraits of Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, and Emperor Charles I of Austria taken by Dora Kallmus, or d’Ora, are the subject of an exhibition at...
Vaginal Davis skypes with artist Bjarne Melgaard about toe sucking, Xerox parties, and her many personas
From Berlin, to Bowie, to sexual frustration, the artists discuss the experiences which fuel their creative projects for Document's Fall/Winter 2015 issue.
Belgium fights back against Facebook’s problem with Old Master nudes
The Flemish Tourism Board created a video in response to Facebook censoring nude works by Paul Rubens from the Maison de Rubens in Antwerp.
Harley Weir directs a new A.P.C. film starring it-model Paul Hameline
Are the words uttered by models-cum-actors Hameline, Sohyun Jung and Aida Blue in Harley Weir's A.P.C. film a Lettrist poem or random musings?
Ai Weiwei’s studio demolished in wave of destruction against Beijing’s contemporary art community
Beijing authorities destroyed Ai Weiwei's studio without warning last Friday, three years after the artist relocated from China to Berlin.
Detroit artists Jova Lynne and Mario Moore question the class and racial complexities of leisure
Megan Wray Schertler spoke to Jova Lynne and Mario Moore during Detroit Art Week.
The case for a museum director who isn’t white or male
Did the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles make the right decision in appointing Klaus Biesenbach as its new director?
Project depicting names of drowned refugees mysteriously disappears from Liverpool Biennial
The List by Turkish artist Banu Cennetoğlu has not been seen since last Saturday when it was removed from a new development in Liverpool’s Chinatown.
Frédéric Sanchez and Laurie Anderson discuss the relationship between image and sound
Sound designer Frédéric Sanchez and multimedia artist Laurie Anderson discuss the influence of memories, the relationship between image and sound, and Anderson’s new film, “Heart...
Illustrator Eri Wakiyama and jewelry designer Yoon Skype about how creativity can’t be taught
The artists talk navigating social media, hyphenated identity, and self-promotion for Document's Fall/Winter 2015 issue.
How a bouquet of flowers from Andy Warhol started Peter Marino’s art collection
'To Peter, Andy Warhol.'
Trump’s silence on American arts is deafening
With nine months until the Venice Biennale, the State Department has yet to announce a U.S. artist.
The story of Ser Serpas’s improvised and lucid readymades
The sculptor, painter, and performance artist on her site-specific installation at Zurich's LUMA Westbau gallery.
A meticulous recreation of Giacometti’s studio is now open to the curious
This summer the Giacometti Institute has opened a near-exact recreation of the sculpture's Montparnasse studio.
David Wojnarowicz’s sleepless nights come to the Whitney
The artist and AIDS activist gets the retrospective treatment at the Whitney starting this month.
Documenting the endless appetites of ‘starving artists’
'FOOD SEX ART,' which opens at the Ryan Lee Gallery this week, dispels the idea of artistic penury with a survey of artistic indulgence from...
Genesis P-Orridge on a life spent transgressing one’s self
The performer and Throbbing Gristle co-founder discusses love, violence, and making life a work of art with gallerist Lia Gangitano for Document's Spring/Summer 2017 issue.
A raid on an Italian artifact smuggling ring may have unlocked a vast forgery web
The recent bust of one of Italy's oldest organized crime rings may have 'convulsive' impacts on the scholarly world of artifacts and forgeries.
This is how Juergen Teller handles his football fanaticism
The vibrant photographer reveals his maniacal love of football just in time for the 2018 World Cup with a new exhibition at the Garage Museum...
James Welling on his photo ‘1538’
“The challenge is to create something I haven't seen before."
Goethe goes to the museum
A new group show opening at Sammlung Friedrichshof and Stadtraum in Austria this week uses Goethe's 1809 novel Elective Affinities to examine space of human relationships.
A life of objects lost in translation
An intimate tour of Christie's acclaimed Rockefeller Auction, this past May, revealed the lie at the heart of estate sales—and of the American dream so...
After posing for the $5.2 million George Condo, Natalie White is now her own muse
The photographer has sat for George Condo, Michael Dweck, Peter Beard and more, but now, she's decided to become her own subject.
Protection finds its equal in pleasure at PS1’s ‘Body Armor’
A new exhibit at MoMA's PS1 takes a nuanced look at how women convey power, desirability, and rebellion through garments worn and objects wielded.
Massimo Giorgetti and Maurizio Cattelan look back at who they once were
The Milanese designer behind MSGM sits down with his close friend, the provocateur behind 'Toilet Paper,' to recall the origin of their long-running collaboration, as...
Tomas Maier on the ‘raw, simple, and emotional’ works of Donald Judd
We asked the Bottega Veneta creative director about his fascination with the legendary sculptor, whose aluminum works are on display this summer at the Judd...
One of Russia’s masterpiece paintings was attacked with a metal pole
You could say Vodka and an increased inability to differentiate historical fact with artistic license had something to do with the art assault on a...
Juliana Huxtable and Stuart Comer on the new politics of trans visibility in the social media age
The artist and downtown 'It Girl' speaks with the MoMA curator about the fine line between transgender visibility and commercial exploitation for Document Spring/Summer 2016.
Designer Milton Glaser still loves New York City, after all these years
The Bronx native behind one of the world's most famous logos discusses the city that, to him, is brimming with endless possibilities to unlock the...
Three emerging Latina artists trace the connection to the ‘Radical Women’ before them
As the Brooklyn Museum shines a long overdue light on two decades of conceptual works by pioneering Latina artists, a trio of emerging New York...
African-American artists shatter art world expectations at auction
Last week's record-breaking sale of Kerry James Marshall's 'Past Times' at Sotheby's suggest a long-overdue mainstreaming of the black contemporary art.
