Pablo Picasso never got called an asshole.

New Year Update

Ron Diorio 

 

Empire City - New Book
Copies of Ron Diorio’s new limited edition book Empire City are now available. The publication includes both an 8” x 10” print as well as a DVD. The book, print & DVD are all signed and are restricted to 50 copies. You can view the entire book online here. For sales inquiries please contact us at 646.827.9890, or by email. A limited number of copies of Diorio’s previous publication, Comin’ Around Again, which include a signed and numbered print, are still available also.     

Houston Museum Acquisition
The Houston Museum of Fine Arts recently exhibited and subsequently acquired two photographs by Ron Diorio:
Full of Faith and Nervousness and the last available print of Hometown. His video work will be screening at exhibitions in Sydney and Liverpool.

New Work for the New Year
We now have 10 new Ron Diorio prints available for viewing here. You may also make an appointment to view the prints in person by contacting the gallery at
646.827.9890, or by email.

Jordan Sullivan

PHH Discoveries Program  

Peter Hay Halpert Fine Art is pleased to announce the first artist to participate in our new DISCOVERIES program. Jordan Sullivan is a Houston, Texas-born photographer who now works and lives in New York City.

The DISCOVERIES program is designed to introduce work by fresh, young photographers. The program will feature a curated, select number of images that are available in small, limited editions, exclusively through our gallery. The work is intended to be affordable. As a result of our open submission policy, we view more contemporary photography than almost anyone in the field. With our expertise and track record introducing new work, we wanted to create an innovative program that gives both beginning and established collectors an opportunity to support up & coming photographers. The 10 landscapes selected to inaugurate the DISCOVERIES program can be viewed  here

The Essential Mikael Kennedy Polaroids
Mikael Kennedy is terminating the Passport to Trespass series, and our online exhibition The Essential Mikael Kennedy Polaroids has concluded, bringing to a close this decade-long Polaroid project. We will soon be announcing the launch of Kennedy’s new work.

Mikael Kennedy’s final publications in the series, volumes 8 & 9, are available for sale here in a limited run of 100.
Only a few copies remain.

The two volumes were recently featured on J. Crew’s handpicked holiday gift guide.

An interview with Mikael was published in  WINk magazine.

The essential collection was mentioned in GQ’s ‘Stuff We Like’ section.


Passport To Trespass Archive
As Kennedy’s Passport to Trespass blog has officially been retired, the entire project is now archived chronologically on a  dedicated site.   

There are no rules. Let the picture lead you where it must go.”
- Helen Frankenthaler, 1928-2011

“We’re in crazy times. I’ve been arrogant and I’ve been humble in my career. And at this point I can’t tell you where we’re heading, so I’m just going to ride it wherever it goes.”
- Damien Hirst

I must have missed that humble moment…

Leo Tolstoy at 20

Leo Tolstoy at 20

Leni RiefenstahlOlympia

Leni Riefenstahl
Olympia

I consider space to be a material. The articulation of space has come to take precedence over other concerns. I attempt to use sculptural form to make space distinct.”
- Richard Serra

Alex Meyer, 23, Harvard grad, swimming in Walden Pond, while training for the 2012 Olympics. Photo by Alex Trautwig for The NY Times, 21 October 2011.

The Times ran this picture as a full page photo, running from the top of the page to the bottom (rather than the usual left to right, above the fold). Terrific photo deserves a terrific layout!

Frank Horvat, Givenchy Hat, Longchamps, 1958, for Jardin des Modes

Frank Horvat, Givenchy Hat, Longchamps, 1958, for Jardin des Modes

Chambered Nautilus by Stuart Westmorland, in the NY Times, 25 October 2011