Peter Halley Studio Visit Preview of New Paintings

James Kalm's art world reputation must have inched up a notch or two lately. As a video reporter whose covered the New York scene with a totally unorthodox style for the past five years now, your reporter has pissed off a lot of the "powers that be". His spontaneous and unscripted views behind the facade, has exposed a more "realistic" side of the local art world. Now, it seems, his perseverance has begun to be recognized. Invited to an intimate and exclusive studio preview of Peter Halley's new paintings, Kalm gives viewers a chance to slip behind the veil of privacy cloaking the creative practice of one of New York's most acclaimed painters. As a founding member and chief polemicist of Neo-Geo, and head of Graduate Studies in Painting and Printmaking at Yale University, Halley has been at the center of advanced painting for a quarter century. His unretractable commitment to severe geometric design, and his use of high intensity fluorescent color, has distinguished his paintings earning them a unique place in contemporary art history. Included in this program is a musical intro featuring Jazz legends trumpeter Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith and bassist Henry Grimes, recorded live at Zurcher Studio July 10, 2011.

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[rcs]

Who is Kate?

In a lot of your videos you always thank Kate. I enjoy your videos.

[jameskalm]

Kate is the Executive Producer, and the love of my life. Anyone who enjoys the Kalm Report owes a debt of gratitude to her.

[yangyin09u]

The artist say they're "Metaphors for social flows and the flow of capital in consumer societies." ok I'll take him at his word. To me it's Albers on steroids & florescents in a Hello Kitty Kolor sadistic way. For me, it's not a good pain, worth suffering for.

[AGDiesel18]

i wouldnt say in a hello kitty sort of way but, i dont watch it to know any better... i did however lose interest when i heard that line too. i saw them in a powerpoint bubble chart sort of way and maybe that became too connected in a way for me, or, too easy and obvious of a reference for them.

[77GGSS]

eye find that dirty sock drawers lead to comic hysteria...

[Noah Barker]

art it is far grander than religion, and shares a proximity with philosophy(and can act in coordination with written works, like halley's). art about art (from art) can be equally valid to art that is of the world. ultimately is the goal not to create a cerebral interaction and encourage contemplation? 

[thegiantagave]

that kicked ass.

[claureic]

Thanks for this fluorescent visit...

[masterofpaint]

Good luck with that...I sort of agree though. I'm just fascinated by the sense of unaestheticness of the work, pretty much why people dislike it, but then again I wouldn't expect any universal message, content or value in his work anyway. Painting just represents itself: texture and color composition. Ironically enough I have never been able to understand anything he has written. Clearly the painting isn't automatically communicating anything he might've said it to represent.