Art & Ideas
Essay
Lyle Ashton Harris: Oracle
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A photo essay unpacking Lyle Ashton Harris’s Oracle—annotated fragments of ancestry, community, and loss, ahead of his AIR 2026 performance.
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.
Essay
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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.
Essay
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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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Another Hit
by Daniel Merritt
Chief Curator Daniel Merritt on Matthew Barney’s ZONE DEFENSE: Old Snowmass Parallax.
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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.
In Conversation
Figures in a Landscape
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Mariana Fernández speaks with Vic Brooks and Daniel Merritt about the interdisciplinary forces that inspire this year’s AIR theme, Figures in a Landscape.
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Watch: AIR 2025
A selection of full-length videos from AIR 2025: Life As No One Knows It is now available to watch online.
In Conversation
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The Friction of Collaboration
with Simon Castets
Simone Castets reflects on the enduring importance of place, the friction of collaboration, and imagining new futures together.
In Conversation
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Not Quite a Mirror
with Paul Chan
Paul Chan reflects on false selves, doing things badly, and the search for real intelligence.
In Conversation
Site Lines:
Matthew Barney on Staging the American Myth
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Matthew Barney’s TACTICAL parallax, commissioned for AIR 2025, is staged in a repurposed military barn in Colorado. In conversation with Vic Brooks, he reflects on violence, spectatorship, and national identity across three iconic American arenas: the Western landscape, the football field, and the Broadway stage.
In Conversation
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The Limits of Language
with Vauhini Vara and Zoë Hitzig
Vauhini Vara and Zoë Hitzig on creative agency in the age of artificial intelligence.
In Conversation
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The Alchemy Of AIR
with Vic Brooks
Curator at Large, Vic Brooks introduces AIR as a space where art, ideas, and audiences converge in real time.