Peter Hay Halpert Fine Art

01/02/2025

Food for thought!

A real photograph entered by Miles Astray into the category of the 1839 Awards for images generated by A.I. won a jury award.

07/26/2024

"Everyone who writes about art should know artists, if only to find out how they do (and don't) think."
- David Sylvester

03/20/2023

Artists & Galleries!
Beware of scams!
We've been getting hit w these attempts for years now.

Young artists say they often receive offers by email to purchase their paintings, but many are part of schemes to defraud them by using fake checks and phony shipping companies.

11/08/2022

I've been giving a lecture on a history of photography that features one of Robert Frank's pictures, analysing his exploration of race in America, along similar lines to what Arthur does here.

How, in a single photograph, Robert Frank captured the ongoing story of a divided nation.

06/28/2022

Last week to see Mario Kiesenhofer's show at our space in Chelsea, New York.
Until Saturday, July 2nd.
521 W 26th Street, NY, NY 10001
Tue - Fri 11 AM - 6 PM, Sat 11 AM - 4 PM.
https://www.phhfineart.com/exhibitions-1/mario-kiesenhofer-surroundings

06/14/2022

Join us on tonight, June 14, 7 PM at the Austrian Cultural Forum New York

MAPPING Q***R SURROUNDINGS,
A Panel on Q***r Visibility and Space

SPEAKERS

Drew Sawyer:
Drew Sawyer is the Phillip Leonian and Edith Rosenbaum Leonian Curator of Photography at the Brooklyn Museum. He has previously held curatorial positions at the Museum of Modern Art and the Columbus Museum of Art, where he co-founded the Center for Art and Social Engagement (CASE) through a major grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. He received a 2020 Award for Excellence from the Association of Art Museum Curators. Sawyer holds a Ph.D. in Art History and Archaeology from Columbia University, focusing on North American art and photography and their intersections with social histories around class, race, gender, and sexuality. He is a regular contributor to scholarly volumes, exhibition catalogues, journals, and magazines.

Matthew Leifheit:
Matthew Leifheit is an American photographer, magazine editor and professor. A graduate of Rhode Island School of Design and the Yale School of Art, he was formerly photo editor of VICE and is currently on faculty at Pratt Institute. Leifheit’s photographic work has been exhibited internationally and is held in public collections. His photographs have appeared in publications such as The New York Times, The New Yorker, Aperture, TIME, and Artforum. Leifheit is Editor-in-Chief of MATTE Magazine, a journal of emerging photography he has edited and published since 2010.

Mario Kiesenhofer:
Mario Kiesenhofer is an Austrian artist working with photography and video. He is based in Vienna and is represented by Peter Hay Halpert Fine Art in the US. Kiesenhofer studied Photography and Video Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. His works have been shown in London (Austrian Cultural Forum), Tokyo (A- Gallery), Poland (BWA Gallery, Tarnów) and at the Vienna Museum (among others). In 2018 he was a resident at the International Studio & Curatorial Program in Brooklyn and a finalist for the Wolf Suschitzky Photography Prize. In 2020 Kiesenhofer was awarded a special mention by the jury at the Portfolio Review at Fotomuseum Winterthur in Switzerland. He is co-founder of Streulicht – a discursive publication series on photography and related arts.

The panel discussion will be moderated by Peter Hay Halpert.
An art dealer, professor, author, lecturer, curator and collector, Peter Hay Halpert has authored numerous books, including several monographs on Hiroshi Sugimoto, as well as over 600 articles on photography. He has been a Contributing Editor of American Photo and a columnist for The Art Newspaper and Photograph magazine. He has lectured at colleges and universities throughout the world, and has been a professor at the School of Visual Arts (SVA), and at the International Center of Photography (ICP). He served on the Guggenheim Museum Photography Committee when it was first started, and work from his collection has been exhibited at numerous institutions in the U.S.

Austrian Cultural Forum NY
11 East 52nd Street (off Fifth Ave), New York, NY 10022

RSVP required – to RSVP, please email [email protected] with your name and number of free tickets you would like to reserve.

Image: Mario Kiesenhofer 'Indoor-Boiler, Berlin' 2016,
Pigment print, mounted on aludibond, framed behind grey glass

06/09/2022

Artist's Reception for our Mario Kiesenhofer exhibition this evening at 521 West 26th St in Chelsea, from 6-8 pm. Mario came over from Vienna and I flew in from Colorado. Come join us!

06/04/2022

Exhibition views from our current exhibition "Mario Kiesenhofer. Surroundings". On view until 2 July at 521 W 26th Street in New York.

06/02/2022

06/02/2022

We originally planned this exhibition for April 2020, but for obvious reasons it kept getting rescheduled...and rescheduled...and rescheduled.

We're thrilled that the art and the artist made it over from Vienna. The show has been installed at 521 West 26th St in Chelsea, and the Artist's Reception is 9 June from 6-8 pm.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

02/09/2022

I recently talked w Prague-based photographer and educator Matthew Dols, about my 30+ years in photography. Check it out!

We discuss: His dog Polar Bear, being a professor, generalist versus specialisation, commodities trading, building relationships, collecting photography, difficulties of running a gallery, publishing a book, editing your work, portfolio reviews, estate planning, photographic editions, editions as a....

04/15/2021

From the London-based Art Newspaper, the paper of record for the art world. Shows you what they think of the current phenomenon 😉

04/19/2020

Including photographs by my friend, Mitchell Hartman

We invite everyone to share photos—taken from an appropriately socially-distanced perspective—documenting personal experiences during this challenging time. Post those images on Instagram using the hashtag , and tag .

04/19/2020

In terms of my own collecting, I was never a big fan of William Eggleston. That all changed, tho, when I started teaching the history of contemporary photography. Immediately, it became clear that the number of photographers who owed a great debt to Eggleston was legion.
There are very few of his pictures that I think I would like to live with, day in and day out, but I have a great appreciation for his vision and what he contributed to the medium.

When Eggleston started photographing, the only images considered art were in black and white. But the self-taught photographer understood the power of his bright hues and shots of mundane scenes in color.