BOOKS, ARTICLES, AND INTERVIEWS BY PETER HALLEY 

2022

“John Waters Sitting, 1997,” The Brooklyn Rail (December/January 2022-23).

2021

“Fifteen Years Ago, Keltie Ferris Was Peter Halley’s Student.  The Artists, Now Friends, Sat Down to Talk Shop as They Debut New Work,” ArtNet (Sept 2021). 

2018

“Peter Halley in Conversation with Paul Lee,” in Paul Lee (New York: Karma, 2018).

2017   

“Artists’ Artists Best of 2017,” Artforum (Winter 2017): 69.

“Excerpts from the 80s,” reprinted from Peter Halley: Selected Essays, 1981–2001, Flash Art, n. 317 (Nov/Dec 2017): 68–71.

“Sam Gilliam with Peter Halley,” in Sam Gilliam, exhibition catalogue (Los Angeles: David Kordansky Gallery, 2017).

“In Conversation with Peter Halley,” in Leseli Smith III / Left to Think Alone (Birmingham, AL: Maus Contemporary, 2017).

2015   

“Peter Halley: Critics Page,” The Brooklyn Rail (15 Dec 2015): 24.

2014

“The Dehumanization of Art: Jose Ortega y Gasset and Ad Reinhardt,” adaptation of 1980 essay, edited by Barbara Rose, The
Brooklyn Rail
, www.brooklynrail.org (Jan 2014).

“Franz Erhard Walther: The Body Decides,” Artforum (Jan 2014): 131.

“Peter Halley in Conversation with Wolfgang Tillmans,” in Wolfgang Tillmans, 2nd edition (London: Phaidon Press Ltd., 2014).

index A to Z, edited by Wendy Vogel and Rachel Ward (New York: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 2014).

“Lyle Ashton Harris with Peter Halley,” in Lyle Ashton Harris (Brussels: Maruani Mercier, 2014) 

2013   

“Abstraction and Culture,” reprint of 1991 essay, in Abstraction, Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art series, edited by Maria Lind (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2013).

Peter Halley: Selected Essays, 1981–2001, edited by Richard Milazzo (New York: Edgewise Press, 2013).

2012   

“Nature and Culture,” reprint of 1983 essay, in Nature: Documents of Contemporary Art, edited by Jeffrey Kastner (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2012).

 “Sensibility of the Times, Revisited: Peter Halley,” Art in America (Dec 2012): 164–5.

 “Statement,” in Frank Stella—The Retrospective: Works 1958–2012, exhibition catalogue (Wolfsburg, Germany: Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, 2012)

 “A Conversation with Kehinde Wiley and Peter Halley,” in Kehinde Wiley, edited by Thelma Golden, Robert Hobbs, Sarah H. Lewis, et al. (New York: Rizzoli, 2012). 

2011   

“Franz Erhard Walther: Close Encounters of Three Kinds,” Flash Art, n. 276 (Jan 2011). 

2010   

“Keith Mayerson with Peter Halley,” The NeoIntegrity Omnibus (New York: Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art, 2010)

2009   

“Interview: Peter Halley and Ryan McGinness,” in Ryan McGinness: Works (New York: Rizzoli, 2009).

2007   

“An American Homage to Baudrillard,” Le Nouvel Observateur, Paris, 22 July 2007.                    

 “Saint Clair Cemin with Peter Halley,” in Saint Clair Cemin, exhibition catalogue (Brussels: Gallery Alain Noirhomme, 2007).

2006   

“Introduction,” in Andrej Zielinski: Homecoming, exhibition catalogue (Overland Park, KS: The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, 2006).

 

2005   

“Barnett Newman,” in The Shape of Color, exhibition catalogue (Toronto: Art Gallery of Canada, 2005).

“Elaine Sturtevant with Peter Halley,” index magazine (Sep–Oct 2005).

 

2004   

“Fashion Victims,” Artforum, (May 2004): 197–199.

 “Jonathan Safran Foer with Peter Halley,” index magazine (Sep–Oct 2004).

 “Helmut Lang with Peter Halley,” index magazine (Apr–May 2004).

 “Dana Schutz with Peter Halley,” index magazine (Feb–Mar 2004).

 

2003   

“The Box Office,” in White Columns 20th Anniversary Anthology, edited by Collins & Milazzo (New York: White Columns, 2003).

“Franz Erhard WaltherWork Needs the Body: A Strong Misreading,” reprinted from 1998, in Franz Erhard Walther: Orte der Enstehung—Orte der Wirkung, exhibition catalogue (Fulda, Germany: Vonderau Museum, 2003).

“Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk with Peter Halley,” index magazine (Jun–July 2003).

 “Jean Todt with Peter Halley,” index magazine (Feb–Mar 2003). 

“Interview with Cody Choi and Peter Halley,” Cultural Shift Hatter: Cody Choi 1986 – 2003 (Seoul: Paradise Media Art, Inc., 2003).

 

2002   

“Shock of the Old,” Artforum, (Summer 2002): 163.

“Alex Katz’s New Work,” in Alex Katz Beachscenes and Landscapes, exhibition catalogue (Paris: Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, 2002).

“Wolfgang Tillmans with Peter Halley,” in Wolfgang Tillmans (London: Phaidon, 2002). 

“Sylvie Fleury with Peter Halley,” index magazine (Apr–May 2002).

“Stephen Gan with Peter Halley,” index magazine (Feb–Mar 2002).

 

2001   

“Fifteen Little Electric Chairs,” in Andy Warhol: Little Electric Chair Paintings, exhibition catalogue (New York: Stellan Holm Gallery, 2001).          

“September 25, 2001,” in Peter Halley: Paintings, exhibition catalogue (London: Waddington Galleries, 2001). 

“Gaetano Pesce with Cory Reynolds and Peter Halley,” index magazine (Sep–Oct 2001).

“Princess Marianne, Fursten zu sayn-Wittgenstein-sayn with Peter Halley,” index magazine (Sep–Oct 2001).

“Tom Sachs with Peter Halley,” index magazine (Jun–July 2001).

“Abalos & Herreros with Peter Halley,” index magazine (Apr–May 2001).

 

2000   

“A Utopian Moment, I Guess,” Surface Magazine, n. 23 (May 2000).

“A Short History of the Cell,” in Airtime: A Series of Wireless Art Projects (New York: Creative Time, 2000).

“Jean-Charles de Castelbajac with Peter Halley,” index magazine (Sep–Oct 2000). 

“Stephen Shore with Peter Halley,” index magazine (Apr 2000).

 

1999   

“Pop Secret: Nickolaus Krushenick,” Artforum (May 1999): 68. 

“The Year 2000,” Art Papers, v. 23 (Dec 1999). 

“Isabella Rossellini with Peter Halley,” index magazine (Nov–Dec 1999).

“Wayne Koestrnbaum with Peter Halley,” index magazine (May–June 1999).

“Jim Walrod with Peter Halley,” index magazine (Jan–Feb 1999). 

“Peter Klare with Peter Halley,” Peter Klare (1999).

  

1998   

“Franz Erhard WaltherWork Needs the Body: A Strong Misreading,” in Franz Erhard Walther—Ich bin die Skulptur, exhibition catalogue (Hannover: Kunstverein Hannover, 1998).

“Artforum Top Ten,” Artforum (Summer 1998): 38.

“Bianca Jagger with Peter Halley and Bob Nickas,” index magazine (Jun–July 1998).

 “Andy and Kate Spade with Peter Halley and Ariana Speyer,” index magazine (Mar–Apr 1998).

“Sezer Aykan with Peter Halley,” New Observations, n. 118 (Spring 1998).

1997   

“Art Criticism in a Changing Cultural Landscape,” ArtNet (March 1997). 

“The 80s and Jewishness,” New Art Examiner, v. 24, n. 9 (June 1997). 

“Smithson's Crudity,” Art + Text, n. 56 (Feb–Apr 1997): 25–26.

“The Everyday Today,” in Architecture of the Everyday, edited by Steven Harris and Deborah Berke (Princeton, NJ: Princeton Architectural Press, 1997).

“Introduction,” in Chris Martin, exhibition catalogue (New York: Pierogi Gallery, 1997).

“Franz Erhard Walther,” in Fort! Da! Cooperations, exhibition catalogue, (Ostfildern, Germany: Villa Merkel Galerie der Stadt Esslingen and Hatje Cantz, 1998).

“Ellen Gallagher with Peter Halley,” index magazine (Jul–Aug 1997).

“John Waters with Peter Halley and Bob Nickas,” index magazine (Jan 1997). 

Peter Halley: Recent Essays, 1990–1996, edited by Richard Milazzo (New York: Edgewise Press, 1997).

 

1996   

“Artificial Pleasures: Peter Halley on Rem Koolhaas’ Eurolille,” Frieze n. 126 (Jan–Feb 1996). 

“Immigrant Song,” in Collaborations: Warhol, Basquiat, Clemente, exhibition catalogue, Fridericranium Museum, Kassel, and Museum Villa Stuck, Munich (Ostfildern, Germany: Hatje Cantz, 1996).

“Introduction,” in Chuck Nanney, exhibition catalogue (New York: Sandra Gering Gallery, 1996).

“Abstraction and the Linguistic Paradigm,” Tema Celeste, n. 58 (Sep 1996). 

“Rick Prelinger with Alex Alberro and Peter Halley,” index magazine (Nov 1996).

“Udo Kier with Peter Halley, Bob Nickas, and Wolfgang Tillmans,” index magazine (Apr 1996).

“Eduardo Machado with Peter Halley,” index magazine (Feb 1996).

 

1995   

“Images, Masks & Models,” Tema Celeste, n. 53 (Sep 1995).

“On Cézanne,” La Libération (Sep 1995).     

“A Short History of Affects,” DeWitte Raaf, n. 53 (Jan 1995).

 “Timothy Greenfield-Sanders,” in Timothy Greenfield-Sanders Selected Portraits 1985–1995, exhibition catalogue (Cologne, Germany: Kunst-Station Sanct Peter, 1996). 

“Untitled,” in Benetton Par Toscani, exhibition catalogue (Pully: FAE Musée d’art contemporain, 1995)

 

1994   

“Statement,” in Peter Halley: Mono-Reliefs, exhibition catalogue (New York: Grand Salon, 1994).

 “Someday You’ll be Able to go to a Party and be the Only One There: Notes on Virtual Reality,” Soft World 2.1: The Imperial Message, exhibition catalogue (Columbus, OH: Wexner Art Center, 1994).

“My Portrait by Andy,” Frieze, n. 16 (May 1994): 40.

“Mondrian, Painting, and Change,” DeWitte Raaf (Oct 1994).

 “Intersection,” in The Use of Pleasure, exhibition catalogue (San Francisco: Terrain Gallery, 1994).

 “Sex & Death,” Tema Celeste, n. 44 (November 1994).

1993   

“Some Notes on the Computer Landscape,” Tema Celeste, n. 40 (Spring 1993): 51.

 

1992   

“Abstract Space,” in Through the Looking Glass: Artists First Encounters with Virtual Reality, exhibition catalogue (New York: Jack Tilton Gallery,1992).

“Openings: Scott Grodesky,” Artforum (Nov 1992): 102.

 La Crise de la Géométrie et Autre Essais 1981–1987, French translation of Collected Essays (Paris: École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, 1992).

 

1991   

“Abstraction and Culture,” Tema Celeste, n. 32–33 (Autumn 1991): 56–60.        

“Geometry and the Social,” Balcon, n. 8–9 (1991).

1990   

“The Americans,” in Peter Halley, exhibition catalogue (Boston: Mario Diacono Gallery, 1990).

“Ronald Jones, Marcel Duchamp, and The New South,” in Ronald Jones, exhibition catalogue (San Jose: Museum of Art, 1990).

“The City as Festival,” in Robert Tannen: REPROspective evitcepsORPER, exhibition catalogue (New Orleans: Contemporary Art Center, 1990).

Scritti Sull'Arte ed Altro, Italian translation of Collected Essays (Siracusa, Italy: Tema Celeste, 1990).

 

1989   

“The Day of Two Noons,” in Vertigo, exhibition catalogue (Salzburg: Edition Thaddaeus Ropac,1989).

 

1988   

Peter Halley: Collected Essays 1981–1987 (Zürich: Bruno Bischofberger Gallery, 1988).

 

1987   

“Notes on Abstraction,” Arts Magazine (June 1987).

 

1986   

“Frank Stella… and the Simulacrum,” Flash Art, n. 126 (Jan 1986).

 “A Response to Barnett Newman’s ‘The Sublime is Now,’” Arts Magazine (Mar 1986). 

“The Deployment of the Geometric,” Effects (Winter 1986).

“The Deployment of the Geometric,” Spazio Umano (Oct-Dec 1986).

 

1985   

“On Line,” New Observations, n. 35 (1985).

“Notes on Nostalgia,” New Observations, n. 28 (1985). 

“After Art,” New Observations, n. 27 (1985).

 

1984   

“The Crisis in Geometry,” Arts Magazine (June 1984).

“The Frozen Land,” ZG Magazine (Nov 1984).

“Richard Prince Interviewed,” ZG Magazine, n. 10 (Spring 1984). 

1983   

“A Note on the New Expressionism Phenomenon,” Arts Magazine (Mar 1983).

“Introduction,” Science Fiction, a special issue published in conjunction with the exhibition Science Fiction at John Weber Gallery, New Observations, n. 17 (1983). 

“Nature and Culture,” Arts Magazine (Sep 1983).

 

1982   

“Ross Bleckner: Painting at the End of History,” Arts Magazine (May 1982).

 

1981     

“Beat, Minimalism, New Wave, and Robert Smithson,” Arts Magazine (May 1981).

 “Against Post-Modernism: Reconsidering Ortega,” Arts Magazine (Nov 1981).