Art & Ideas
Video
Arch Connelly: Art in Drag by Lisa Rovner
Read More
Art in Drag offers an intimate encounter with the artist through a body of archival material that has only recently re-emerged.
Essay
Read More
Landscapes of Listening
by Vic Brooks
AIR Senior Curatorial Advisor Vic Brooks explores the pipe organ as it pertains to place in the wake of Kali Malone’s Organ Concert, which premiered at AIR 2026.
Essay
Read More
Another Hit
by Daniel Merritt
Chief Curator Daniel Merritt on Matthew Barney’s ZONE DEFENSE: Old Snowmass Parallax.
Essay
Read More
Memories of Futures Past: The Artist as Geomythographer
by Adrienne Mayor
Classicist Adrienne Mayor on geomythology, fossils, and deep time—reading Adrián Villar Rojas’s First Gods, Lost Animals as memories of futures past.
Essay
Read More
Meet The Artists
Of The ArtCrush 2026 Auction
Works by these artists and more will be auctioned in support of the Aspen Art Museum during ArtCrush 2026.
Essay
Read More
Lyle Ashton Harris: Oracle
A photo essay unpacking Lyle Ashton Harris’s Oracle—annotated fragments of ancestry, community, and loss, ahead of his AIR 2026 performance.
In Conversation
Read More
Behind The Scenes: Camille Henrot's Commedia dell'arte
Henrot speaks with collaborators Adam Charlap Hyman and Eliza Ryan, moderated by Camille Okhio, ahead of the premiere of her first live work at AIR 2026.
Essay
Resonant Histories: Alan Fletcher On The Pipe Organ
Read More
Alan Fletcher on the pipe organ’s entangled histories of music, technology, and architecture—ahead of Kali Malone’s AIR performance at Aspen Chapel.
Essay
Read More
Stella Bottai’s ArtCrush Auction Picks
In honor of the upcoming ArtCrush Auction, Senior Curator-at-Large Stella Bottai shares her top picks.
Download
AIR 2026 Summer Newspaper
View the Aspen Art Museum’s 2026 Summer Newspaper.
In Conversation
Read More
Historical Fictions, Future Myths
Adrián Villar Rojas and novelist Álvaro Enrigue on time, extinction, and myth—a 2025 AIR conversation revisited ahead of the artist’s Museum exhibition.
Essay
Clutching Pearls of Wisdom
by Carlo McCormick
Read More
Ahead of Straighten Your Wig and Pray, critic Carlo McCormick revisits the life and work of Arch Connelly.
In Conversation
Read More
Figures in a Landscape
Mariana Fernández speaks with Vic Brooks and Daniel Merritt about the interdisciplinary forces that inspire this year’s AIR theme, Figures in a Landscape.
In Conversation
Read More
Stone Monster
In conversation with Rosanna McLaughlin, Kerstin Brätsch discusses her rooftop mosaic benches, and stone’s deep ties to time, painting, and the spiritual.
Video
Play
Adrián Villar Rojas
Untitled (From the Series The Language of the Enemy)
Discover the new sculpture by artist Adrián Villar Rojas, unveiled in Le Brassus.