Art & Ideas

Classicist Adrienne Mayor on geomythology, fossils, and deep time—reading Adrián Villar Rojas’s First Gods, Lost Animals as memories of futures past.

A photo essay unpacking Lyle Ashton Harris’s Oracle—annotated fragments of ancestry, community, and loss, ahead of his AIR 2026 performance.

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.

Alan Fletcher on the pipe organ’s entangled histories of music, technology, and architecture—ahead of Kali Malone’s AIR performance at Aspen Chapel.

Chief Curator Daniel Merritt on Matthew Barney’s ZONE DEFENSE: Old Snowmass Parallax.

In honor of the upcoming ArtCrush Auction, Senior Curator-at-Large Stella Bottai shares her top picks.

Guillaume Oranger reads Jacqueline Humphries’ practice as a sustained conversion.

On the occasion of Glenn Ligon: Break It Down, the Aspen Art Museum has published Advice for the Young Artist, a bracing text Ligon first wrote in 2021.

Glenn Ligon speaks with Chief Curator Daniel Merritt ahead of his forthcoming solo exhibition at the Aspen Art Museum.

Ian Volner teams up with architect and local expert Sarah Broughton to spotlight Aspen’s most iconic—and idiosyncratic—residential architecture.

Works by these artists and more will be auctioned in support of the Aspen Art Museum during ArtCrush 2025.

“Your body . . . It’s the continuation of your discourse. I think it accompanies what you do very closely.”¹  — Carol Rama