Art & Ideas
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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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Conversation: Lyle Ashton Harris and Daniel Merritt
The artist reflects on how images evolve across time to shape identity, memory, and cultural narrative.
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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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Watch: AIR 2025
A selection of full-length videos from AIR 2025: Life As No One Knows It is now available to watch online.
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Allison Katz
In The House of The Trembling Eye
Artist Allison Katz guides us through the 2024 group exhibition she organized in collaboration with the Archaeological Park of Pompeii.
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Jacqueline Humphries, Look Infinitely
by Guillaume Oranger
Guillaume Oranger reads Jacqueline Humphries’ practice as a sustained conversion.
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Glenn Ligon's
Advice for the Young Artist
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.
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In Conversation:
Jacqueline Humphries
and Glenn Ligon
On the occasion of their exhibition openings, artists Jacqueline Humphries and Glenn Ligon speak with Daniel Merritt, Chief Curator.
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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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Glenn Ligon, with Friends and Strangers
by Daniel Merritt
Glenn Ligon speaks with Chief Curator Daniel Merritt ahead of his forthcoming solo exhibition at the Aspen Art Museum.
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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.
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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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Artists As Leaders
by Charlotte Burns
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.