Art & Ideas
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Arch Connelly: Art in Drag by Lisa Rovner
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Art in Drag offers an intimate encounter with the artist through a body of archival material that has only recently re-emerged.
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David J. Getsy: Arch Connelly and the Glittery Alternative History of Postminimalism
Art historian David J. Getsy places Arch Connelly’s pearl- and glitter-encrusted sculptures within central postwar art debates.
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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.
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Another Hit
by Daniel Merritt
Chief Curator Daniel Merritt on Matthew Barney’s ZONE DEFENSE: Old Snowmass Parallax.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Assembling On Oracle
by Lyle Ashton Harris, Darnell L. Moore, and Raymond Pinto
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Lyle Ashton Harris on his AIR 2026 commission: On Oracle, with collaborators Darnell L. Moore and Raymond Pinto.
In Conversation
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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.
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Staging Murderers Bar
by Mariana Fernández
AIR Editor and Project Curator, Mariana Fernández, describes the immersive experience of viewing Lucy Raven’s AIR 2026 commission Murderers Bar.
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Resonant Histories: Alan Fletcher On The Pipe Organ
Alan Fletcher on the pipe organ’s entangled histories of music, technology, and architecture—ahead of Kali Malone’s AIR performance at Aspen Chapel.
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Stella Bottai’s ArtCrush Auction Picks
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In honor of the upcoming ArtCrush Auction, Senior Curator-at-Large Stella Bottai shares her top picks.
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AIR 2026 Summer Newspaper
View the Aspen Art Museum’s 2026 Summer Newspaper.
In Conversation
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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.
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Clutching Pearls of Wisdom
by Carlo McCormick
Ahead of Straighten Your Wig and Pray, critic Carlo McCormick revisits the life and work of Arch Connelly.