
Jacolby Satterwhite is using the past to create art about the future
In collaboration with Nike Every Stitch Considered, Document highlights innovative creatives who are expanding our cultural landscape through acts of exploration, process and education

Salome Asega is bridging the gap between technology and tradition
In collaboration with Nike Every Stitch Considered, Document highlights innovative creatives who are expanding our cultural landscape through acts of exploration, process and education

Performance artist Miles Greenberg explores the creative capacity of the body
In collaboration with Nike Every Stitch Considered, Document highlights innovative creatives who are expanding our cultural landscape through acts of exploration, process and education

Burning Man goes to Sotheby’s
Document sits down with art world burners Yvonne Force Villareal, Fab 5 Freddy, and Thomas Rom to discuss the spirit behind the auction

Provocateurs Peter Berlin and Brontez Purnell on public sex, immortality, and the importance of self-authorship
For Document's Summer/Pre-Fall 2021 issue, the photographer and the writer share stories from the vanguard of art's erotic avant-garde

A repurposed mill in the Catskills transforms the mythology of the artist in nature
Foreland's artistic campus serves as an enclave for artists to produce and display their works

Dispatches from a nonbeliever
Larissa Pham details her quest for the divine

Oscar yi Hou and Louis Fratino are at the vanguard of queer figurative painting
The artists muse on Picasso, identity and Brooklyn nightlife

Ekene Ijeoma reveals the revolutionary potential of data-based art
Driven by an activist spirit, the artist and MIT assistant professor creates participatory installations that reveal urgent truths about our unjust world

Dominique Fung critiques art history’s oriental fantasy
In her latest exhibition, "It's Not Polite to Stare," the challenges the objectification of Asian women with lush surrealism

Sarah Lewis brings her Vision & Justice project to Frieze New York
Lewis was joined by Ava DuVernay, Carrie Mae Weems, and Theaster Gates at the most recent iteration of Vision & Justice at Frieze New York

Frankie Alduino captures the longtime residents of Westbeth Artists’ Housing
Martha Graham, Diane Arbus, and Merce Cunningham once worked in Westbeth, a creative housing complex and the subject of photographer’s new book

A new Gaetano Pesce art book reflects the form of the artist himself
The master of Italian radical design is reimagined through the lens of contemporary artists in Museum's "Out in the World with Gaetano Pesce"

Artist Sam Moyer creates a personal narrative in abstraction
In the wake of her installation at Central Park and exhibition at Sean Kelly Gallery, Sam Moyer speaks to Document about creating art in isolation

Kenneth Tam confronts Asian American masculinity in ‘Silent Spikes’
Referencing the cowboy archetype and the narratives of Chinese Transcontinental Railroad workers, the artist tackles the complexity of male-to-male bonds in his latest exhibition

Alice Neel revealed New Yorkers at their most vulnerable
The painter's subjects included everyone from Andy Warhol to her neighbors in Spanish Harlem

Electric Lady Studios pays tribute to the late lo-fi legend Daniel Johnston
The New York institution will display 30 of the cult songwriter's drawings in an upcoming exhibition

American Artist and Legacy Russell are hacking the cultural mainframe for a nonbinary future
For Document's Fall/Winter 2020 issue, the artist and writer discuss the emancipatory power of the glitch

Ai Weiwei answers 20 questions from his son, Ai Lao
For Document Fall/Winter 2020, the renegade artist contemplates human nature, cosmic forces, and hummus

Alison Jackson’s staged portraits pierce through the absurdity of celebrity culture
Featuring doppelgängers of Donald Trump and Princess Diana, the photographer's new exhibition proves truth is only a construct

Miles Greenberg is creating spaces to transcend
The Québécois artist joins Document to discuss the Black origins of surrealism, the future of performance, and being a low-key biohacker

Trevor Paglen wants you to stop seeing like a human
The artist on CIA-funded facial recognition technology, images in the post-truth era, and why AI is its own form of politics

‘myselves’: 4 artists on interpreting the body in the age of pandemic
Loie Hollowell, Jesse Mockrin, Xiuching Tsay, and Naotaka Hiro, whose work is featured in a Kohn Gallery group exhibition, on the shifting foundations of identity

Banksy’s driver and photographer reveals the art world’s most mysterious man
Steve Lazarides's second volume of 'Banksy Captured' shows the enigmatic artist in a new light

Meet American Artist, the artist who ‘looted’ the Whitney
At the intersection of racial identity and technology, Artist prompts us to consider issues of Black labor and visibility within a networked world

Donald Judd’s radical departure from monochrome
For our Spring/Summer 2020 issue, a close look at the artist’s annotated preparatory collages for his colorful late sculpture

Getting Out: Art Omi, the sculpture park that will make you feel joy again
"We're creating pieces that can be explored and interacted with": Omi’s vast pastures are teeming with flora, fauna, and experiential art

Fashion from Isolation: 5 designers create looks using only household items
Document's favorite creatives show us the avant garde power of toothpaste and potato crisps

Watch a computer algorithm teach an amateur dancer ballet
As image-manipulation technology becomes increasingly potent, artist duo Ida Jonsson and Simon Saarinen speculate on the rise of superhumans

5 artists tell us the hardships—and benefits—of creating in isolation
Lyle Ashton Harris, Luis Flores, Richard Wyatt Jr., Robert Pruitt, and Timothy Washington discuss how the lockdown transformed their practice

Lina Iris Viktor’s manifesto for creativity in the age of pandemic
"We live to work": The artist on finding space to feel amid art-world demands for constant output

Artist Christopher Wool confronts the stark reality of a pandemic
On a special edition artist cover for Document Issue 16, the artist captures the anarchic energy of a world in crisis

“When I look at you, do you see me?” Painter Amoako Boafo urges us to consider the complexities of blackness
For Document No. 16, curator Osei Bonsu spoke with the painter about his upbringing in Ghana, creating space for black expression in Vienna, and balancing...

Artist Mel Bochner obscures words to reveal their dangerous potential
"All abuses of power begin with the abuse of language.” On a limited edition cover for Document's Spring/Summer 2020 issue, Bochner responds to the pandemic...

See 30 years of Glen Luchford’s photography in this virtual gallery
The exhibition showcases the true range of Luchford’s work—from his gritty ’90s images to his exuberant Gucci collaborations

Judy Chicago illustrates a cautionary tale for our post-COVID future
On a special edition artist cover for Document Issue 16, Chicago warns, ‘We must change course or we are DOOMED.’

Julia Weist’s ‘Public Record’ reveals the long history between New York City and its artists
As the Public Artist in Residence with the Department of Records and Information Services, Weist invites New Yorkers to consider the civic value of art

Artists for Humans, the underground initiative leveraging art to protect New York’s most vulnerable
With the help of fellow artists and donors, painter Hannah Beerman has raised upward of $130,000 for pandemic relief

Lucien Smith and Brad Phillips on the death of art world elitism
“I would love to have someone be critical”: The artists discuss Instagram, provocateurs, and fostering the next generation

Photographer Mateo Arciniegas captures a return to his Colombian homeland
"Maybe what I found ordinary is long gone": The 10-year journey to discover a lost sense of identity

Edgar Heap of Birds reveals the profound importance of the collective

Art From Isolation: 11 Illustrators visualize our new dystopian reality
Ian Grandjean, Simone Noronha, and more respond to the loneliness, introspection, and unexpected joys found in quarantine

Judy Chicago’s 1983 sketches still threaten the patriarchy
The artist speaks to Nancy Princenthal about environmentalism and how she used fashion to expand our concept of the divine

The creative community rallies to support NYC’s frontline workers
AMASS.life is selling affordable prints from over 100 artists, including Brad Elterman and Janette Beckman, with all proceeds going to the COVID-19 Emergency Relief Fund
Meet the radical Desi artists of South Africa’s Kutti Collective
'We are transcending what the expected ‘Indian’ experience is.' Caroline Mackintosh talks to 9 artists reclaiming the power of their identities

Celebrating our essential humanity in the paintings of Jordan Casteel
'Art for art's sake': How Casteel uses portraiture to connect with the beauty of her communities

Performance Art From Isolation: 10 artists share a microcosm of their immediate world
Uplifting, meditative, and downright freaky video pieces from Richard Kennedy, Chloe Wise, and more

Ja’Tovia Gary’s radical Black feminist filmmaking
The artist captures the breadth of Black womanhood in her video installation 'The Giverny Suite'

A walking tour of Shoreditch with Dr Noki, London’s original king of DIY
In 'The NOKImentary' the artist discusses the subversive power of customization
