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.
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...
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.
