New York, 1987 / c. early 1990s
Magazine issues
Offset print on paper
Approx. 27 × 21 cm each
Three issues of New Observations, 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.
Issue 50 — Sculpture and Paradise (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.
Issue 51 — Radical Consumption and the New Poverty (guest edited by Collins & 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.
Issue 84 — Alchemy 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.
Across 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.
Condition: Good to very good. General age toning, light surface wear, and handling marks consistent with periodical use and storage.
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