Jean-Michel Basquiat’s ‘Flesh and Spirit’ is at the center of an art family’s legal feud
As Sotheby's prepares to auction the virtually unseen Basquiat piece next week for an estimated $30 million, a disinherited art collector is accusing the auction...
The world through a pinhole: the unseen paintings of Howardena Pindell
The artist and social activist Howardena Pindell shares the never-before-seen pointillist experiments that would go on to mark her signature painting style—now the focus of...
Curating the curator who “didn’t buy the bullshit” of the art world
This past weekend, Frieze New York’s first curated section celebrated the legendary curator Hudson, whose lone vision shaped the contemporary art world as we know...
The first day of Frieze was a furnace, making collectors cranky
Record heat hits Frieze New York, affecting not just the mood of fairgoers, but sales as well.
Jordan Nassar is delicately weaving a new vision into one of Palestine’s cultural legacies
The Palestinian-American artist discusses the cultural weft of his evocative handmade embroidery—featured, this weekend, in Frame at Frieze New York.
Smuggled into Claire Fontaine’s ‘Untitled (Tennis Ball Sculpture)’
What Document overheard at the artist collective’s opening at Century Pictures.
A collective that documents global conflict are now up for the Turner Prize
The nomination of London-based Forensic Architecture is a watershed moment for Britain's most prestigious art prize.
A closer look at Ai Weiwei’s selfie with the leader of Germany’s anti-immigrant party
The Chinese-born dissident artist has long used social media as an artistic medium, so how are we to interpret his recent selfie with one of...
In Furs by Lorna Simpson
In this cover story from our SS 2018 issue, an exclusive look at an original portfolio of work by Lorna Simpson for Document.
The endless drawings of Joan Jonas
Never before published drawings by Joan Jonas that were inspired by a “Female Devouring Ghost” perched on the shore between life and death.
Photographer William Klein has spent a lifetime looking at the world
Long revered and often imitated, the photographer surveys a storied career overflowing with experimentation and left turns with curator Hans Ulrich Obrist.
British prosectors can’t tell the difference between art and ‘revenge porn’
But at least the artwork in question earned a top prize.
The doors of the Chelsea Hotel are being auctioned to support the homeless
Auction house Guernsey's is offering bidders the bedroom doors the once contained Janis Joplin, Leonard Cohen, Jimi Hendrix, and Humphrey Bogart.
“What is an artist’s responsibility?” Introducing Document S/S 2018
With the release of Document No. 12, our Editor-in-Chief & Creative Director Nick Vogelson looks at how the changing of the artist's role in culture...
Aggregators of anxiety
Artist Jon Rafman captures the anxiety unleashed by the aggregations of Russian trolls and Cambridge Analytica.
The delirious diary: Art Basel in Hong Kong
At the art world's biggest party in Asia, blue-chip gallery David Zwirner unveiled new work by Wolfgang Tillmans, while luxury brands such as Loro Piana,...
Voyaging into Lucy Dodd’s magical family space
What Document overheard on the artist's latest opening at David Lewis Gallery.
Curator Alissa Bennett details the dark side to Lena Dunham
The actress in conversation with Alissa Bennett, the creator of the biannual morbid zine "Dead is Better."
On Loan: An observation on life in a British prison
Document spoke with an archivist with England's Mass Observation Unit about a special artifact on life in one of the country's oldest prisons.
Why does Facebook keep trying to censor artwork with nudity in France of all places?
The platform has found itself in the past weeks waging cultural battles with several French users over the use of nudity in works of art,...
Seeing is believing: The outsider art avatars of Britain’s CB radio underground
A new book collects the zany world of "eyeball cards" used amongst Britain's CB radio users in the late 70s and early 80s.
Danish design duo Camilla Staerk and Helena Christensen define Scandinavian style
Document sits down with collaborative duo Camilla Staerk and Helena Christensen to discuss their upcoming projects and finding inspiration in their Nordic heritage
Muse Amanda Lear defends being alone to artist Francesco Vezzoli
The iconic Amanda Lear and artist Francesco Vezzoli discuss finding pleasure in being alone and being original
On Loan: The sublime chaos of Egypt’s unknown surrealist collective, Art et Liberté
As the works of this lesser-known art collective come to the Tate Liverpool this month, Document spoke with the show's curator about the stringent political...
Surveying a ‘reactionary moment’ with Document’s first guest curator Francesco Vezzoli
When Document asked the Italian filmmaker, image-maker, auteur, self-proclaimed "wild boy," and regular contributor to the magazine, to guest curate exclusive content for our site, the...
Overheard at the new Barkley L. Hendricks show, Them Changes
“The 1970s. Wow. There was a lot going on. That world doesn’t exist anymore.”
The American politics of the radical presidential portrait
Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald's portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama are the latest entries in a visual tradition defining the politics of the present.
Artist Robert Longo pits excess against morality with designer Rick Owens
Artist Robert Longo and designer Rick Owens discuss throwing a punch, identity and longevity in art.
On Loan: Loose change from the enlightenment
This week, an exploration of the British Museum's archives yields a copper coin tells the story of England's ascent from the dark ages.
Gillian Wearing performs the doppelgänger
The photographer 'plays' herself in this new collection of disruptive portraiture
The ‘Soul of a Nation’ comes to a small corner of America’s heartland
The groundbreaking Tate Modern show comes, of all places, to the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Arkansas
Entre chien et loup by Christophe Chemin
The Berlin based artist, often found doing work for Prada, with his Pasolini inspired portfolio
Pat Cleveland and Donna Jordan relive Kenzo’s glory days
The two Kenzo muses explain the difference between supermodels and superstars
Eileen Myles and Dennis Cooper on staying sane, sending snail mail and the old New York City
The disruptive literary figures on the inspirations and cities behind their best work
PFW18: Sketches of Lanvin by one of its own
Richard Drews, a model who walked for Lanvin Men's FW18, draws portraits of his fellow models backstage
The Country’s Top Museum Curators Have Very Little to Say About the Current Political Climate
Despite using a lot of words
Creative Reinterpretation and the Lady Dior Bag
Dior gives ten artists free reign for the second year of the Dior Lady Art project.
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
An Article on Race Fatigue by Kara Walker
For this Document No. 11 portfolio, artist Kara Walker imbues her figures with freedom from historical archetypes.
Wrestler Studies by Carroll Dunham
The artist discusses his creative philosophy and the impetus behind this series of visceral drawings with novelist and critic Lynne Tillman.
Corresponding with Carolee Schneemann
From Document's Fall 2017 issue, a dossier of the written work by Carolee Schneemann, who passed away March 8th, speaks to the current cultural climate.
Shelf Life by Claes Oldenburg
Claes Oldenburg breaks down our mass-produced and ephemeral consumption in this Document No. 11 portfolio.
Capitalism in the Kardashian Era
Lauren Greenfield's case study of the opulent lives and expenditures of the one-percent.
Andre Walker’s Collection 30 Years in the Making
Following his celebrated Spring/Summer 2018 collection, fashion hero Andre Walker discusses the presence of absence.
MoMA’s Paola Antonelli exposes the complexities of getting dressed with art director Peter Saville
The visionary design curator and legendary graphic designer on the transformative power of a turtleneck
Offline in Cuba
Julia Weist and Nestor Siré talk about "El Paquete Semanal."
Falls the Shadow: Maria Grazia Chiuri Designs for Works & Process
Designed around the Solomon r. Guggenheim's rotunda, the performance weaves together the languid movements of the dancers with 3-D mapped visuals.
Piers Secunda and the Preservation of Destruction
The sculptor speaks about cultural violence in the Middle East
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.
