Art & Ideas
In Conversation
Behind The Scenes: Camille Henrot's Commedia dell'arte
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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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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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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.
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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.
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After the Image: Keith Mayerson on Memory, Painting, and Narrative
Keith Mayerson reflects on memory, Americana, and painting as a nonlinear narrative in My American Dream (Rocky Mountain High).
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Radical Juxtapositions:
Anthea Hamilton on Cauliflower Sundial
In conversation with Stella Bottai, Hamilton speaks about vegetables as pop forms, museums as material, and the pleasure of making work that resists hierarchy.
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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.
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Not Quite a Mirror
with Paul Chan
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Paul Chan reflects on false selves, doing things badly, and the search for real intelligence.
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Site Lines:
Matthew Barney on Staging the American Myth
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.
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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.
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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.
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Bold and Beautiful
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Artist and filmmaker Aria Dean speaks with entertainment veteran and long-term resident Colleen Bell.
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Current Issues
Evan Moffitt speaks with the legendary Tina Brown, the first external curator of the Aspen Ideas Festival.
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Home and Away
Xerxes Cook talks to ArtCrush 2024 Co-Chair Jen Rubio about the rich in juxtapositions in her Aspen collection.
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Design Minded
Design Miami co-founder Craig Robins and his partner Jackie Soffer discuss the art of collecting design with Sara Harrison.