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The Aspen Art Museum is a non-collecting institution presenting the newest, most important evolutions in international contemporary art. Our innovative and timely exhibitions, education and public programs, immersive activities, and community happenings actively engage audiences in thought-provoking experiences of art, culture, and society.

06/10/2026

🌈 It’s back! Join us for our third annual Pride Extravaganza Drag Show this Friday, June 12.

Expect jaw-dropping performances, high-glam looks, and plenty of surprises — then cast your vote to help crown the winner!

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Featuring:


angel.spectrum

Zimora
Citizen Fatale

Light cocktail snacks and refreshments provided. AAM Members receive one complimentary alcoholic beverage; additional drinks available for purchase. This event is free and open to guests 21+. Valid ID required.

📅 June 12 · 6:00–9:00 PM
📍 Aspen Art Museum
RSVP at the link in our bio to attend!

06/05/2026

The schedule for AIR 2026: Figures in a Landscape is now online.

This year’s program takes Aspen as its setting and stage. Adrián Villar Rojas’s First Gods, Lost Animals sets the tone, taking over multiple floors of the Museum. From there, the week unfolds across the city — new commissions and performances from Lucy Raven, Deantoni Parks, Lyle Ashton Harris, Ivan Cheng, Kali Malone, Los Thuthanaka, and Matthew Barney; the world premiere of Camille Henrot’s Commedia dell’arte at the Wheeler Opera House; readings and talks from Morgan Bassichis, Kaveh Akbar, Nuar Alsadir, Patrick House, and Paige Lewis; and a keynote from filmmaker Julie Dash.

Plan your week with us. Link in bio.

“You think this is ugly? I think this is pretty. I’m going to show you that this has other ideas.” —Arch ConnellyBorn on...
05/12/2026

“You think this is ugly? I think this is pretty. I’m going to show you that this has other ideas.” —Arch Connelly

Born on this day in 1950 in Chicago, Arch Connelly moved to San Francisco after art school, where he designed sets for the Cockettes and Angels of Light before relocating to New York in 1980. There, he became a beloved fixture of the East Village, known for bridging the streetwise attitudes of downtown New York and San Francisco’s psychedelic utopianism.

Connelly’s practice across collage, sculpture, and painting draws upon historical traditions of Mannerism and the Baroque, challenging traditional distinctions between fine art and ornament. His representations of American landscapes recur as motifs imbued with mystique and glamour, expressed through transcendent form and heightened color.

Opening June 12, Aspen Art Museum presents Arch Connelly: Straighten Your Wig and Pray, the first museum survey dedicated to his work—including pieces unseen publicly for more than thirty-five years.

Announcing the participants for AIR 2026: Figures in a Landscape.Set in motion by Adrián Villar Rojas’s exhibition First...
04/28/2026

Announcing the participants for AIR 2026: Figures in a Landscape.

Set in motion by Adrián Villar Rojas’s exhibition First Gods, Lost Animals at Aspen Art Museum, AIR 2026 extends from museum to mountaintop, chapel to ranch, and theater to meadow. Figures in a Landscape is inspired by a title that recurs across literature, cinema, music, and painting, reflecting the interdisciplinary spirit of the program while naming an unstable relationship between subject and setting. The program examines the constructs of Aspen’s own landscape, a tapestry of raw wilderness and mediated environments, to question how acts of staging and human intervention shape understandings of place and power.

Additional details and registration to be released in the coming weeks. Learn more at airaspen.org

NOW ON VIEW: Keith Mayerson, The Silver Queen of Aspen Over Buttermilk, 1893/2026, 2026. Oil on linen. In 1892, Aspen ci...
04/17/2026

NOW ON VIEW: Keith Mayerson, The Silver Queen of Aspen Over Buttermilk, 1893/2026, 2026. Oil on linen.

In 1892, Aspen citizens pooled funds to construct an 18-foot sculpture of a woman in a chariot, flanked by Plutus, the Greek god of wealth, as cherub twins representing silver and gold. Built to champion the silver standard at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, the sculpture was mysteriously dismantled upon its return to Colorado and eventually lost when the building housing it closed in 1939.

Mayerson’s painting riffs on the fantastical appearance — and disappearance — of the infamous statue, depicting the sculpture mid-flight above Highland peak, a psychedelic image of prosperity. Channeling the Silver Surfer and the Maschinenmensch from Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927), the Silver Queen returns as something between a UFO and an angel that looks out over a world of success that Aspen’s founders could never have imagined.

📍 Keith Mayerson: My American Dream (Rocky Mountain High) is on view through May 31, 2026.

In a new conversation for Art & Ideas, Keith Mayerson reflects on My American Dream (Rocky Mountain High)—a deeply perso...
04/06/2026

In a new conversation for Art & Ideas, Keith Mayerson reflects on My American Dream (Rocky Mountain High)—a deeply personal chapter in his decades-long project exploring American culture through image, remembrance, and myth.

Describing his exhibitions as unfolding like a nonlinear graphic novel, Mayerson turns here to Colorado and Aspen as cultural symbols and sites for memory-making. Drawing on sources ranging from family photographs to Snoopy and the Grateful Dead, his paintings treat images as a starting point—opening onto what he calls a “map for the unconscious.”

Tap the link in our bio to read the artist’s full conversation with Curator Simone Krug.

Keith Mayerson: My American Dream (Rocky Mountain High) is on view through May 31, 2026.

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3. Earth Snoopy, 2026. Acrylic on wood and steel. Photo: Paul Salveson
5. Copper Mountain Ski Passes, 1981-83 (from when the artist
was ages 15–16), 2026
7. Highlands Vista, 2026. Oil on linen. Courtesy the artist and Karma

Last chance: Jacqueline Humphries closes this Sunday, April 5.In dense, layered compositions that often conceal the proc...
04/02/2026

Last chance: Jacqueline Humphries closes this Sunday, April 5.

In dense, layered compositions that often conceal the process of their making, symbols, logos, emojis, and code mingle with brush marks, paint splatters, and drips, forging links between traditions of abstract painting and life cycles of technology. In her largest presentation of new and unseen work to date, Humphries aligns paintings with machines and emphasizes their unyielding capacity to reflect the drives and doubts of humans.

Plan your visit at the link in bio.

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Installation view: Jacqueline Humphries, 2025. Photo by Dan Bradica.

03/05/2026

Now streaming: Werner Herzog at the Bluhm-Kaul Keynote, presented last summer at AIR.

Reflecting on over six decades of filmmaking, Herzog considers his idea of “ecstatic truth”—a poetic insight that transcends fact—and how it endures in a world shaped by artificial intelligence, deepfakes, and digital illusion. Drawing from the philosophical foundations of his forthcoming book The Future of Truth, he speaks to film as a vessel for awe, endurance, metaphysical inquiry, and empathy amid uncertainty.

Introduced by Hans Ulrich Obrist.

Watch the full keynote via the link in bio.

Titled Figures in a Landscape, AIR returns to Aspen this summer for its second edition. Join us in the mountains for a w...
02/26/2026

Titled Figures in a Landscape, AIR returns to Aspen this summer for its second edition. Join us in the mountains for a week of major new commissions and wide-ranging conversation. AIR 2026 program, featured artists, and more to follow soon.

AIR 2026: Figures in a Landscape
July 27–31

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An unforgettable winter evening đŸ•ŻïžđŸ’˜ đŸȘ© Slopeside SoirĂ©e brought the Aspen community together for a celebratory winter nig...
02/17/2026

An unforgettable winter evening đŸ•ŻïžđŸ’˜ đŸȘ©

Slopeside SoirĂ©e brought the Aspen community together for a celebratory winter night of art, music, and raised glasses — all benefiting our year-round programming.

Presented with support by CADAR Fine Jewelry (), the soirée unfolded in true Aspen fashion, with flowing, caviar by , and DJ set by carrying us late into the night.

Thank you to our extraordinary Co-Chairs — Lauren Allday, Elizabeth Chung, Kelcee Corwin, Alexander Hankin, Makenzie Moon Phelan, and Ernie Poma — and to our dedicated Host Committee for making the celebration a success.

Special thanks to V***e Clicquot, Kemo Sabe (), Velour Medical (), Meredith Marks Caviar, and Lalo Spirits (); desserts by Rayo Events; wine generously donated by Marianne and Bill Powers; and entertainment underwritten by Deborah and Daniel Glass.

Your generosity makes moments like this, and the work we do throughout the year, possible.

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📾 Nina Fernandez/BFA.com

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