{"title":"Works","description":"\u003cp\u003eWorks, editions and multiples held alongside the archive: objects made by artists to stand on their own, rather than to announce or record a show. They run from Philippe Thomas's 1994 art share to new pieces published by The New Rare Editions, each catalogued with its own register number and condition.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"yoko-ono-dollar-piece-printed-matter-studio-one-2006","title":"Yoko Ono — Dollar Piece — Printed Matter Membership Multiple with Envelope, Studio One, New York, 2006","description":"\u003cp\u003eIssued in 2006 as a benefit multiple for Printed Matter, this work reactivates Yoko Ono’s \u003cem\u003eDollar Piece\u003c\/em\u003e, an instruction score first written in spring 1963 during one of the most important periods of her early conceptual practice. The text asks the reader to choose a monetary amount, imagine everything it can purchase, then imagine everything it cannot purchase, before recording the result. Like many of Ono’s early instruction works, the piece shifts the artwork away from object and toward action, imagination, and participation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe original score belongs to the same moment that produced works later collected in \u003cem\u003eGrapefruit\u003c\/em\u003e (1964), a publication that helped establish Ono as a central figure within early conceptual art and Fluxus. Rather than producing fixed images, these works operate as proposals — activated mentally rather than materially.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe printed sheet carries a reproduced “Yoko Ono ’06” signature and a Studio One letterhead, while an illustration of the Dakota apartment building appears at the lower edge. The accompanying envelope extends the work into a mail format, placing it within a lineage of circulation objects and artist-distributed multiples.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWithin a New Rare inventory the object sits somewhere between correspondence, conceptual score, and fundraising support document. It proposes value while quietly undoing it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal period item. Shipping and handling included in the listed price.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Printed Matter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53550083309906,"sku":"TNR-2026-0111","price":150.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Ono_Yoko._Dollar_Piece_membership_memo_for_Printed_Matter_signed_Yoko_Ono_06._2006.jpg?v=1779605564"},{"product_id":"philippe-thomas-distriart-nv-art-share-ostend-1994","title":"PHILIPPE THOMAS — Distriart N.V. Art Share, Ostend, 1994","description":"\u003cp\u003eIssued by Distriart N.V. as an artist-designed company share operating simultaneously as financial document, printed multiple and collectible object. Thomas's design enlarges a commercial barcode into the certificate's principal image, placing product identification, serial production and ownership within the same administrative surface.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhilippe Thomas established readymades belong to everyone® in New York in 1987. Structured as an agency rather than a conventional artistic identity, the project enabled purchasers to occupy the position of attributed author. The certificate extends that proposition into a financial instrument: authorship and ownership are processed through registration, numbering, signatures and transfer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe certificate is numbered 041. Published accounts describe the Distriart designs as planned or stated in editions of 1,000 examples per artist. The numbering system appears consistent with that structure, but no primary production record has been located confirming that all 1,000 examples of the Thomas design were physically printed and circulated. It is therefore described as a numbered example from a stated or intended edition of 1,000.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe sheet is not signed by Philippe Thomas. Two signature-like marks appear beneath the corporate designation \"Een Bestuurder\" — \"a director\" — and relate to Distriart's company authorisation. It cannot be determined from the object alone whether these are handwritten signatures or printed facsimiles.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Distriart N.V.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53813296333138,"sku":"TNR-2026-0279","price":1225.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Thomas_Philippe._Readymades_belong_to_Everybody._1994_front_162582ec-93db-43ec-a7fe-9dacdbdb5018.jpg?v=1782122148"},{"product_id":"james-mullord-bookshelf-publications-2026","title":"THE NEW RARE EDITIONS, JAMES MULLORD, Bookshelf, Publications, 2026","description":"\u003cp\u003eProduced for THE NEW RARE EDITIONS in 2026, James Mullord’s Bookshelf, Publications brings together a replica bookshelf and three publications connected to Philippe Thomas. A unique work, it sits between furniture, display structure and archive. The publications remain functional objects while the shelf shifts their status through placement: from reading material to exhibition object, from storage to sculpture. Exhibited at THE NEW RARE EDITIONS, London, 5–30 June 2026, the work formed part of an installation in which publications, replica furniture, exhibition supports and architectural elements circulated between their conventional functions. Here, the bookshelf operates simultaneously as support, display and work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe work includes the following three publications:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003ePUBLIC — Archives Contemporaines Internationales\u003c\/em\u003e, no. 3, edited by Philippe Cazal, Éditions spéciales, Paris, September 1985–February 1986. A 72-page artist magazine in illustrated wrappers, 31 × 23 cm, containing “Philippe Thomas: Sujet à Discrétion?”, published under the name Michel Tourner eau. The contribution places Thomas’s self-commentary within an assumed authorial identity.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDaniel Bosser \/ Philippe Thomas, \u003cem\u003ePhilippe Thomas décline son identité\u003c\/em\u003e, Galerie Claire Burrus \/ Éditions Yellow Now, France, 1987. A 40-page paperback, 16 × 23.5 cm, designed by Philippe Thomas and produced in relation to the 1987 conference of the same title, moving between lecture text, script and artist’s book.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLaura Carpenter \/ Philippe Thomas, \u003cem\u003eInsights\u003c\/em\u003e, Galerie Claire Burrus, Paris, 1990. A 78-page French-language paperback, 14 × 21 cm, published in an edition of 1,500 under Laura Carpenter’s name. Taking the form of a personal diary, it stages commentary on the agency readymades belong to everyone® through displaced authorship.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"THE NEW RARE EDITIONS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54931601064274,"sku":"TNR-2026-0684","price":1500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/The_New_Rare_Edition_Philippe_Thomas__French_Bookshelf_James_Mullard_Listing_2026_02.png?v=1791017231"},{"product_id":"rafael-melendez-wool-antonello-butler-2020","title":"RAFAEL MELENDEZ, Wool \/ Antonello \/ Butler, 2020","description":"\u003cp\u003eMade in 2020, Rafael Melendez’s Wool \/ Antonello \/ Butler brings together drawing, photocopy, found imagery and accumulated studio material in a densely worked mixed-media collage and assemblage on paper, measuring 42 × 29.5 cm. A photocopied reproduction of a Christopher Wool pattern painting forms part of the backdrop, overlaid with Antonello da Messina’s Virgin Annunciate (c. 1476), hand-drawn and painted elements, and the graffitied name “JUDITH BUTLER.” Fragments of cut paper, staples, tape and clumped studio detritus are incorporated directly into the surface, shifting the work between collage, drawing and low-relief assemblage. Art-historical reproduction, contemporary cultural reference and the incidental remains of the studio occupy the same unstable pictorial field.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rafael Melendez","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54946783363410,"sku":"TNR-2026-0685","price":200.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/RafaelMelendez_Wool_Antonello_Butler_2020.jpg?v=1791188655"},{"product_id":"david-stearn-memorial-day-weekend-the-new-rare-editions-2026","title":"DAVID STEARN, Memorial Day Weekend, The New Rare Editions, 2026","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1989 Felix Gonzalez-Torres made a stack of paper, 29 by 23 inches a sheet, each printed with three words set small and far apart across the middle of the page: MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND. Visitors could take a sheet away, and the stack would be replenished. The sheet in a visitor's hand was never the work; the work was the stack. The Foundation lists its first showing as \u003cem\u003eIn the Center of Doubt\u003c\/em\u003e at Massimo Audiello Gallery, New York, which opened on 27 May 1989. That was the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend. The stack returned for the artist's survey at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 3 March to 10 May 1995, eight months before his death in January 1996. This sheet came to us from a private collector, with the account that it was taken from the stack there. No document confirms it, and the work has been installed several times since, each time from fresh paper, so the account stays an account. For The New Rare Editions in June 2026 the sheet was reassigned once more. The model was Philippe Thomas, whose agency Readymades belong to everyone®, founded in New York in 1987, let collectors become the signatories of works they had not made. The sheet had already come through water damage. We mounted it on aluminium and gave it to David Stearn to frame, and the finished work is attributed to him. The damage is now its image. A brown tide line crosses the sheet about a third of the way down, with paler vertical bands above it where the water climbed, so the name of a public holiday of remembrance now sits beneath something that looks a great deal like a horizon. At 79 Saffron Hill it hung beside two sheets from neighbouring stacks, \u003cem\u003eSomewhere better than this place.\u003c\/em\u003e and VETERANS DAY SALE, each carrying its own tide line. The stack is still endless and can always be printed again. This sheet cannot. Taken from an endless supply, marked by water as no other copy is, and reassigned to another name, it has stopped being one of endless copies and become a single thing. Water-damaged print on paper, aluminium mount, black frame. Sheet 58.4 × 73.7 cm; framed 66 × 81 × 3.7 cm. 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