Peter Hay Halpert Fine Art

01/16/2026

I never call myself a photographer, even tho I take a lot of photographs. Having worked with real artists for the past 40 years, I have too much respect for what they're trying to achieve.
However, there is one occasion every year when I put one of my pictures out there - the Visual AIDS benefit exhibition - POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE.
This year, 1565 artists from all over the world, including myself, have donated a 4x6 piece of art, for sale, first come, first serve, for $100. You don't know whose art you're buying (although if you've been in the art world long enough, you might think you recognise the work of some artists you know). You're just buying the work because you like the piece, and you want to support an important organisation.
My close friend, Patrick O'Connell was the Founding Director of Visual AIDS. After living w full-blown AIDS for 40+ years, he finally stopped fighting against the disease. I have other friends who are still living w it.
Visual AIDS utilizes art to fight AIDS by provoking dialogue, supporting HIV+ artists, and preserving a legacy, because AIDS is not over.
The benefit show and sale is just a week off. You should definitely take a look and support this event, this organisation, the fight against AIDS.
Who knows - you might get a Peter Hay Halpert photograph!

Postcards from the Edge is a unique benefit show and sale of original, postcard-size artworks by established and emerging artists. All artwork is exhibited anonymously, and the identity of the artist is revealed only after the work is purchased. All proceeds support the work of Visual AIDS.

09/19/2025

https://www.phhfineart.com

We've posted a new selection of 20 photographs by Raymond Bleesz on our site.
Take a look!

Since 1970 Raymond Bleesz has lived and photographed in Colorado; he’s focused on both the history of Colorado and points west as well as the changes to the land and the people who live here. He is sensitive to the physical moods and textures of the West, its spaces, and its theatrical shifts of l...

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.