Fashion The Shoptimist: An unbearable uniformity of being In her monthly column, previously closeted gym member Maya Kotomori ruminates on the role of the yoga set on her shopping psyche
Literature Fine Print: You’re a winner, baby On the heels of the National Book Awards announcements, columnist Drew Zeiba asks what prizes mean for publishing
“Everything has been dressed by the act of painting.” Photographer Nicolas Kern and fashion editor Julie Ragolia collaborate on this fashion portfolio for Document’s Fall/Winter 2024–25 issue
Fashion Kiernan Francis’s ‘Champions’ reimagines interior life The filmmaker visits his family’s Chicago home, presenting an architectural vision of victory with local designers
Above the Fold Rafael Prieto meditates on the harmony between the natural and man-made Ahead of his show at Emma Scully Gallery, the artist reflects on his design philosophy, which hinges on the embrace of what’s beautiful in its... by Morgan Becker Above the Fold With ‘Road Less Traveled,’ Rose B. Simpson diaries the tension between ancestry and modern culture The artist’s New York debut is on view at Jack Shainman Gallery, rendering tangible her relationship with Native identity and cycles of personal struggle by Monet Wolfe Above the Fold The work of art in the age of algorithmic optimization The intellectual property debate asks who profits from the fruits of creative labor—and what it means to make something beautiful when everyone else can, too by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold Thomas Blackshear casts new light on the canon of Western American art In collaboration with Stetson, the artist personifies the hidden Black cowboy, reimagining Lon Megargee’s iconic painting ‘The Last Drop From His Stetson’ by Morgan Becker Above the Fold Chase Hall mines memory, bearing witness to personal histories Following the opening of ‘The Close of the Day,’ the artist joins Document to discuss code switching and the American South by Ann Binlot Above the Fold ‘What Is Psychedelic’ details Aura Rosenberg’s appetite for impulse The artist joins Document to reflect upon her first institutional survey, which traverses five decades, two spaces, and one book by Megan Hullander Above the Fold In ‘Inside,’ art informs character Curator Leonardo Bigazzi joins Document to expand upon the film’s collection, reflecting upon the experience of art through the screen by Megan Hullander Above the Fold BOFFO makes its return to dry land with ‘Group Show: A Retrospective’ On Friday night, an exhibition-themed party brought alumni of the Fire Island residency back together, in the middle of Times Square by Journey Streams Above the Fold Performance Space celebrates new paths across New York’s creative landscape The arts organization held its annual gala on Saturday, honoring Pope.L, Sarah Schulman, and Michelle Coffey with an intimate dinner theater by Morgan Becker Above the Fold Art Baja California’s inaugural festival is rooted in locality Across La Paz, San José del Cabo, and Todos Santos, the event connects an international roster of creatives with the histories of its host cities by Document Journal Above the Fold For Vex Ashley, pleasure is an act of resistance With DIY porn project Four Chambers, the adult filmmaker finds the art in sex—and investigates its relationship to society in the process by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold Anastasia Bay’s ‘The Stumbler’s Parade’ imagines modern parables The Brussels-born artist joins Document to elaborate on the making of her series's 12 paintings, and the driving influences and artistic philosophies behind them by Megan Hullander Above the Fold ‘FACES II’ subverts traditional forms of portraiture The second iteration of a two-part exhibition at Hal Bromm Gallery explores the multifaceted nature of the face by Megan Hullander Above the Fold ‘Mr Wonderful’ memorializes the street art of Richard Hambleton, and a culture in flux Gallerist Ronald Sosinski and curator Joseph Bannan discuss the making of the retrospective, and the creative legacy of ’80s New York by Morgan Becker Above the Fold Rita Ackermann’s ‘Vertical Vanish’ is anchored in ambiguity The Hungary-born artist’s latest exhibition oscillates between abstraction and representation, with pre-drawn, half-erased scenes that peer through wild brushstrokes by Megan Hullander Above the Fold The “non-work” of Felix Gonzalez-Torres finds new regard at David Zwirner The pioneering’s artist’s abstraction is brought to the forefront at the gallery, joining the aesthetic and the political into one common body by Justin Polera Above the Fold ‘Recycling Beauty’ bestows new layers of meaning upon objects of the past Fondazione Prada’s ongoing exhibition presents over 60 Greek and Roman art objects, transformed or altered throughout history by Jack Hjerpe Above the Fold For Hannah Traore, success is a communal experience The 27-year-old Malian-Canadian is among New York’s youngest curators—and her namesake gallery is dedicated to bringing marginalized artists to the fore by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold Good artists borrow, great artists steal, and AI art generators get sued The company behind popular art tool Stable Diffusion is facing accusations of copyright infringement from all sides, raising questions about the future of AI art by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold Baye & Asa’s ‘HotHouse’ interrogates the myths wedged deep into the national consciousness In their latest performance piece, the dancers employ a simple set for narrative flexibility, communicating a range of characters and places through their movement by Megan Hullander Above the Fold ‘Louvre Looks’ renders contemporary portraits of the eminent institution Twenty creatives across disciplines pay tribute to the museum through short-from videos, recognizing the Louvre as an evolving site of modern art by Jack Hjerpe Above the Fold For cyborg Neil Harbisson, technology is the medium, not the message From shark fins to seismic senses, members of the biohacking community are changing their brains and bodies to foster a deeper connection with nature by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold Rafael Domenech’s ‘The Medium is the Massage’ renders the art show a publication The Cuban artist joins Document to discuss the joys of contaminating space, the necessity of repositioning, and why he favors horizontal monumentality over hierarchies by Megan Hullander At Large Ariana Papademetropoulos warps archetypal ways of seeing with ghostly fantasies For Document’s Winter/Resort 2023 issue, the artist shares a portfolio of paintings that blur the boundary between mythology and reality by Donatien Grau At Large In ‘Death of A,’ Kandis Williams invents recognition of the internal For Document’s Winter/Resort 2023 issue, the artist compiles stills from her stripped-down interpretation of Arthur Miller’s classic tragedy by David Levine Above the Fold Caitlin MacBride and Julia Weist question the institutional archive For Document, the artists meet to discuss object theory, museum hierarchies, and the responsibilities of creatives who grapple with American stories by Morgan Becker Above the Fold Remembering Franz Kline, who championed expressionism and paved the way for minimalism Available digitally to the public today, Hauser & Wirth Institute’s catalouge raisonné premiers rarely-seen or exhibited works from the final decade of the artist’s life by Megan Hullander Above the Fold Carl Craig and Nazy Nazhand are bridging the gap between art and electronic music For Document, the pioneering DJ and art advisor reunite to discuss how visual and sonic experimentation will inform our future by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold ‘STEIDL–WERK No.30: KUNSTHAUS GÖTTINGEN’ embraces the anarchy of the printing process Each copy of artist Theusus Chan and publisher Gerhard Steidl’s book bears its own unique errors, displaying the art of the accident by Megan Hullander At Large Anicka Yi’s paintings are living, autonomous creatures Following her 'ÄLñ§ñ' exhibition, the artist joins Hans-Ulrich Obrist to discuss why art and science should mingle by Megan Hullander Above the Fold Maïa Régis’s ‘KILOS’ transforms the canvas into a visceral stage The artist’s latest exhibition crosses generations and borders, weaving together a tapestry of characters and cultural references by Morgan Becker Above the Fold A Spider and its Web: Designer Suchi Reddy on the inextricable link between humans and their environments The founder of Reddymade joined Document to discuss neuroaesthetics, the creation of her Lexus-inspired sculpture, and technology as an extension of personhood by Ann Binlot Above the Fold A dispatch from the ritzy underbelly of Art Basel Miami Beach Everything we overheard at Basel, from an alleged museum break-in, to gallerists making up fake press clippings, to what Uber drivers think of it all by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold Laurie Simmons makes art, not magic An icon of the Pictures Generation, the artist is back with a never-before-shown series of works showcasing pornographic images in surreal suburban interiors by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold Rediscovering the archive of Mary Dill Henry The prolific artist’s sketchbooks, letters, and press clippings—nearly lost to modern audiences—are to be digitized for public consumption, and immortalized in our cultural history by Megan Hullander Above the Fold In ‘The Shadow of Spring’, Miles Greenberg examines the corporeality of his avatar The artist’s latest exhibition departs from durational performance into the world of sculpture, shifting from the hyper-present to a figurative temporality by Yuki Xu Above the Fold David Lynch’s art is a window into his strange, elusive world In two concurrent visual arts exhibitions, the Academy Award-winning auteur explores the themes he's know for in the mediums he isn't by Meka Boyle Above the Fold Inside NADA Miami and ILY2’s otherworldly anniversary dinner From opposite corners of the art world spectrum, the two organizations join together to usher in the next generation of creatives by Morgan Becker Above the Fold Artist Niccolò Debole’s playlist for finding pride in process The New York-based creative shares 13 songs that speak to the allure of the in-between by Megan Hullander Above the Fold A brief guide to Art Basel Miami, for the decision-making-impaired From sought-after shows to cocktail hours to full-fledged parties, Document rounds up the renowned art fair’s unmissable events by Morgan Becker Above the Fold Rabin Huissen’s ‘Selective Memory’ seeks balance between the organic and the man-made In his diaristic exhibition at Sōko, the artist explores the hallmarks of the natural world, and adds his own imprint to them by Document Journal Above the Fold Maxwell Alexandre transposes familial realities into a labyrinthian extension of home In ‘Pardo é Papel,’ the painter presents large-scale figurative paintings driven by anthropological note-taking and his roots in Rocinha by Yuki Xu Above the Fold The art of activism, through the voice of Nan Goldin In ‘All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,’ documentarian Laura Poitras tracks the photographer’s unrelenting pursuit of personal and political truth by Conor Williams Above the Fold Oscar yi Hou makes art from the spaces in between Replete with Chinese motifs and symbols of Americana, the portraits in ‘East of sun, west of moon’ examine the performance of ethnicity and race by Madison Bulnes Above the Fold At Art Partner’s #CreateCOP27 competition, creatives make the global climate emergency personal Across mediums, the event unites scenes of natural disaster with community action by Madeleine Beck Above the Fold Andy Harman recycles the detritus from the myth of fashion In his latest exhibition, the set designer and sculptor plays with the conflict between the familiar and the peculiar by Yuki Xu Above the Fold Inside the sixth FotoFocus biennial, as told by an art world outsider The largest biennial of its kind in America, the month-long celebration aims to foreground purposely-forgotten stories by Madison Bulnes Above the Fold Noel de Lesseps makes a practice of play To the Brooklyn-based painter, art is an opportunity to reinvigorate a sense of childlike wonder by Syd Walker Above the Fold Sophia Giovannitti is not your muse In her new solo show, ‘Study 4: Collateral,’ the artist and auteur welds an ideology that reconsiders gendered assumptions by Razzi Schlosser Above the Fold Ian Strange casts the suburban home in a new light For FotoFocus’s 2022 Biennial, the multidisciplinary artist created two architectural interventions centered around the act of looking by Madison Bulnes
Above the Fold Rafael Prieto meditates on the harmony between the natural and man-made Ahead of his show at Emma Scully Gallery, the artist reflects on his design philosophy, which hinges on the embrace of what’s beautiful in its... by Morgan Becker
Above the Fold With ‘Road Less Traveled,’ Rose B. Simpson diaries the tension between ancestry and modern culture The artist’s New York debut is on view at Jack Shainman Gallery, rendering tangible her relationship with Native identity and cycles of personal struggle by Monet Wolfe
Above the Fold The work of art in the age of algorithmic optimization The intellectual property debate asks who profits from the fruits of creative labor—and what it means to make something beautiful when everyone else can, too by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold Thomas Blackshear casts new light on the canon of Western American art In collaboration with Stetson, the artist personifies the hidden Black cowboy, reimagining Lon Megargee’s iconic painting ‘The Last Drop From His Stetson’ by Morgan Becker
Above the Fold Chase Hall mines memory, bearing witness to personal histories Following the opening of ‘The Close of the Day,’ the artist joins Document to discuss code switching and the American South by Ann Binlot
Above the Fold ‘What Is Psychedelic’ details Aura Rosenberg’s appetite for impulse The artist joins Document to reflect upon her first institutional survey, which traverses five decades, two spaces, and one book by Megan Hullander
Above the Fold In ‘Inside,’ art informs character Curator Leonardo Bigazzi joins Document to expand upon the film’s collection, reflecting upon the experience of art through the screen by Megan Hullander
Above the Fold BOFFO makes its return to dry land with ‘Group Show: A Retrospective’ On Friday night, an exhibition-themed party brought alumni of the Fire Island residency back together, in the middle of Times Square by Journey Streams
Above the Fold Performance Space celebrates new paths across New York’s creative landscape The arts organization held its annual gala on Saturday, honoring Pope.L, Sarah Schulman, and Michelle Coffey with an intimate dinner theater by Morgan Becker
Above the Fold Art Baja California’s inaugural festival is rooted in locality Across La Paz, San José del Cabo, and Todos Santos, the event connects an international roster of creatives with the histories of its host cities by Document Journal
Above the Fold For Vex Ashley, pleasure is an act of resistance With DIY porn project Four Chambers, the adult filmmaker finds the art in sex—and investigates its relationship to society in the process by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold Anastasia Bay’s ‘The Stumbler’s Parade’ imagines modern parables The Brussels-born artist joins Document to elaborate on the making of her series's 12 paintings, and the driving influences and artistic philosophies behind them by Megan Hullander
Above the Fold ‘FACES II’ subverts traditional forms of portraiture The second iteration of a two-part exhibition at Hal Bromm Gallery explores the multifaceted nature of the face by Megan Hullander
Above the Fold ‘Mr Wonderful’ memorializes the street art of Richard Hambleton, and a culture in flux Gallerist Ronald Sosinski and curator Joseph Bannan discuss the making of the retrospective, and the creative legacy of ’80s New York by Morgan Becker
Above the Fold Rita Ackermann’s ‘Vertical Vanish’ is anchored in ambiguity The Hungary-born artist’s latest exhibition oscillates between abstraction and representation, with pre-drawn, half-erased scenes that peer through wild brushstrokes by Megan Hullander
Above the Fold The “non-work” of Felix Gonzalez-Torres finds new regard at David Zwirner The pioneering’s artist’s abstraction is brought to the forefront at the gallery, joining the aesthetic and the political into one common body by Justin Polera
Above the Fold ‘Recycling Beauty’ bestows new layers of meaning upon objects of the past Fondazione Prada’s ongoing exhibition presents over 60 Greek and Roman art objects, transformed or altered throughout history by Jack Hjerpe
Above the Fold For Hannah Traore, success is a communal experience The 27-year-old Malian-Canadian is among New York’s youngest curators—and her namesake gallery is dedicated to bringing marginalized artists to the fore by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold Good artists borrow, great artists steal, and AI art generators get sued The company behind popular art tool Stable Diffusion is facing accusations of copyright infringement from all sides, raising questions about the future of AI art by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold Baye & Asa’s ‘HotHouse’ interrogates the myths wedged deep into the national consciousness In their latest performance piece, the dancers employ a simple set for narrative flexibility, communicating a range of characters and places through their movement by Megan Hullander
Above the Fold ‘Louvre Looks’ renders contemporary portraits of the eminent institution Twenty creatives across disciplines pay tribute to the museum through short-from videos, recognizing the Louvre as an evolving site of modern art by Jack Hjerpe
Above the Fold For cyborg Neil Harbisson, technology is the medium, not the message From shark fins to seismic senses, members of the biohacking community are changing their brains and bodies to foster a deeper connection with nature by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold Rafael Domenech’s ‘The Medium is the Massage’ renders the art show a publication The Cuban artist joins Document to discuss the joys of contaminating space, the necessity of repositioning, and why he favors horizontal monumentality over hierarchies by Megan Hullander
At Large Ariana Papademetropoulos warps archetypal ways of seeing with ghostly fantasies For Document’s Winter/Resort 2023 issue, the artist shares a portfolio of paintings that blur the boundary between mythology and reality by Donatien Grau
At Large In ‘Death of A,’ Kandis Williams invents recognition of the internal For Document’s Winter/Resort 2023 issue, the artist compiles stills from her stripped-down interpretation of Arthur Miller’s classic tragedy by David Levine
Above the Fold Caitlin MacBride and Julia Weist question the institutional archive For Document, the artists meet to discuss object theory, museum hierarchies, and the responsibilities of creatives who grapple with American stories by Morgan Becker
Above the Fold Remembering Franz Kline, who championed expressionism and paved the way for minimalism Available digitally to the public today, Hauser & Wirth Institute’s catalouge raisonné premiers rarely-seen or exhibited works from the final decade of the artist’s life by Megan Hullander
Above the Fold Carl Craig and Nazy Nazhand are bridging the gap between art and electronic music For Document, the pioneering DJ and art advisor reunite to discuss how visual and sonic experimentation will inform our future by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold ‘STEIDL–WERK No.30: KUNSTHAUS GÖTTINGEN’ embraces the anarchy of the printing process Each copy of artist Theusus Chan and publisher Gerhard Steidl’s book bears its own unique errors, displaying the art of the accident by Megan Hullander
At Large Anicka Yi’s paintings are living, autonomous creatures Following her 'ÄLñ§ñ' exhibition, the artist joins Hans-Ulrich Obrist to discuss why art and science should mingle by Megan Hullander
Above the Fold Maïa Régis’s ‘KILOS’ transforms the canvas into a visceral stage The artist’s latest exhibition crosses generations and borders, weaving together a tapestry of characters and cultural references by Morgan Becker
Above the Fold A Spider and its Web: Designer Suchi Reddy on the inextricable link between humans and their environments The founder of Reddymade joined Document to discuss neuroaesthetics, the creation of her Lexus-inspired sculpture, and technology as an extension of personhood by Ann Binlot
Above the Fold A dispatch from the ritzy underbelly of Art Basel Miami Beach Everything we overheard at Basel, from an alleged museum break-in, to gallerists making up fake press clippings, to what Uber drivers think of it all by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold Laurie Simmons makes art, not magic An icon of the Pictures Generation, the artist is back with a never-before-shown series of works showcasing pornographic images in surreal suburban interiors by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold Rediscovering the archive of Mary Dill Henry The prolific artist’s sketchbooks, letters, and press clippings—nearly lost to modern audiences—are to be digitized for public consumption, and immortalized in our cultural history by Megan Hullander
Above the Fold In ‘The Shadow of Spring’, Miles Greenberg examines the corporeality of his avatar The artist’s latest exhibition departs from durational performance into the world of sculpture, shifting from the hyper-present to a figurative temporality by Yuki Xu
Above the Fold David Lynch’s art is a window into his strange, elusive world In two concurrent visual arts exhibitions, the Academy Award-winning auteur explores the themes he's know for in the mediums he isn't by Meka Boyle
Above the Fold Inside NADA Miami and ILY2’s otherworldly anniversary dinner From opposite corners of the art world spectrum, the two organizations join together to usher in the next generation of creatives by Morgan Becker
Above the Fold Artist Niccolò Debole’s playlist for finding pride in process The New York-based creative shares 13 songs that speak to the allure of the in-between by Megan Hullander
Above the Fold A brief guide to Art Basel Miami, for the decision-making-impaired From sought-after shows to cocktail hours to full-fledged parties, Document rounds up the renowned art fair’s unmissable events by Morgan Becker
Above the Fold Rabin Huissen’s ‘Selective Memory’ seeks balance between the organic and the man-made In his diaristic exhibition at Sōko, the artist explores the hallmarks of the natural world, and adds his own imprint to them by Document Journal
Above the Fold Maxwell Alexandre transposes familial realities into a labyrinthian extension of home In ‘Pardo é Papel,’ the painter presents large-scale figurative paintings driven by anthropological note-taking and his roots in Rocinha by Yuki Xu
Above the Fold The art of activism, through the voice of Nan Goldin In ‘All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,’ documentarian Laura Poitras tracks the photographer’s unrelenting pursuit of personal and political truth by Conor Williams
Above the Fold Oscar yi Hou makes art from the spaces in between Replete with Chinese motifs and symbols of Americana, the portraits in ‘East of sun, west of moon’ examine the performance of ethnicity and race by Madison Bulnes
Above the Fold At Art Partner’s #CreateCOP27 competition, creatives make the global climate emergency personal Across mediums, the event unites scenes of natural disaster with community action by Madeleine Beck
Above the Fold Andy Harman recycles the detritus from the myth of fashion In his latest exhibition, the set designer and sculptor plays with the conflict between the familiar and the peculiar by Yuki Xu
Above the Fold Inside the sixth FotoFocus biennial, as told by an art world outsider The largest biennial of its kind in America, the month-long celebration aims to foreground purposely-forgotten stories by Madison Bulnes
Above the Fold Noel de Lesseps makes a practice of play To the Brooklyn-based painter, art is an opportunity to reinvigorate a sense of childlike wonder by Syd Walker
Above the Fold Sophia Giovannitti is not your muse In her new solo show, ‘Study 4: Collateral,’ the artist and auteur welds an ideology that reconsiders gendered assumptions by Razzi Schlosser
Above the Fold Ian Strange casts the suburban home in a new light For FotoFocus’s 2022 Biennial, the multidisciplinary artist created two architectural interventions centered around the act of looking by Madison Bulnes