{"title":"Art Magazines","description":"\u003cp\u003eArtist magazines, critical journals, and periodicals operating at the intersection of art, theory, and editorial practice. Publications that functioned as sites of alignment — placing artists, critics, and positions in proximity, circulating ideas through the format of the magazine itself.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"new-observations-nos-50-51-84","title":"New Observations — Nos. 50, 51 \u0026 84","description":"\u003cp\u003eNew York, 1987 \/ c. early 1990s\u003cbr\u003eMagazine issues\u003cbr\u003eOffset print on paper\u003cbr\u003eApprox. 27 × 21 cm each\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThree issues of \u003cem\u003eNew Observations\u003c\/em\u003e, a New York–based magazine operating at the intersection of art, criticism, and theory during the late 1980s moment when image culture, appropriation, and postmodern discourse converged into a shared field.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIssue 50 — Sculpture and Paradise\u003c\/strong\u003e (guest edited by Alain Kirili) assembles a cross-section of sculptural thinking alongside figures such as Louise Bourgeois, Julia Kristeva, and Stephen Westfall — positioning sculpture not as medium but as a conceptual condition moving between language, body, and form.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIssue 51 — Radical Consumption and the New Poverty\u003c\/strong\u003e (guest edited by Collins \u0026amp; Milazzo) shifts toward the economies of images and objects, with contributions from a dense network of artists including Jeff Koons, Haim Steinbach, Peter Halley, Ashley Bickerton, Allan McCollum, and John Dogg — the latter functioning as the shared alias of Richard Prince and Colin de Land, inserting authorship itself into the field of exchange.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIssue 84 — Alchemy\u003c\/strong\u003e extends this logic into a more diffuse, quasi-symbolic register, bringing together names such as Marcel Duchamp, Joseph Beuys, Sigmar Polke, and Gordon Matta-Clark under a thematic structure that reads less as editorial coherence and more as an accumulation of references — material, conceptual, and historical.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcross the three, the publication operates as a site of alignment rather than documentation: artists, critics, and positions are placed in proximity, indexed, and circulated. The magazine becomes a container for overlapping authorial identities, where contribution and citation blur into one another.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Good to very good. General age toning, light surface wear, and handling marks consistent with periodical use and storage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSold as a group. Original period items. Shipping and handling included in listed price. 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Other figures connected to the issue include Fran Lebowitz, Richard Serra, Martin Scorsese, Agnes Gund, Jeff Koons, and Paula Cooper. Published during the final years of \u003cem\u003eAcne Paper\u003c\/em\u003e's original run, the magazine remains one of the strongest examples of fashion publishing operating simultaneously as art publication, cultural document, and collectible printed object.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eViewed as a shop object, the issue records a moment when luxury branding, contemporary art, photography, publishing, and cultural journalism occupied the same support. What survives is not simply a magazine but a retained distribution device: a printed structure through which images, reputations, and institutions briefly shared the same space.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe object remains unchanged. Its placement does not.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Magazine \/ periodical\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 28 × 38 cm\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePrint:\u003c\/strong\u003e Offset print on newsprint and coated stock\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Acne Studios\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Fair. Cover and back cover show visible signs of wear, including light folding to the edges, general handling marks, corner softening, surface rubbing, and age toning consistent with a large-format periodical.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShipping and handling included in the listed price. 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