Art & Ideas

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

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

Works by these artists and more will be auctioned in support of the Aspen Art Museum during ArtCrush 2026.

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

Lyle Ashton Harris on his AIR 2026 commission: On Oracle, with collaborators Darnell L. Moore and Raymond Pinto.

AIR Editor and Project Curator, Mariana Fernández, describes the immersive experience of viewing Lucy Raven’s AIR 2026 commission Murderers Bar.

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

Ahead of Straighten Your Wig and Pray, critic Carlo McCormick revisits the life and work of Arch Connelly.

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

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

Charlotte Burns argues that artists are not just creators—they are visionaries, building new systems and spaces for collective transformation. In an era of collapse and constraint, their deep engagement with uncertainty makes them some of the most essential leaders we have.

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