Aspen Art Museum

To celebrate the final weekend of the exhibitions A Fragile But Marvelous Life and Make every show like it’s your last, the AAM presents a daylong series of performances and interventions.

Ryan Gander has contributed a special menu for SO, the Andrea and James Gordon café. Inspired by the recipes of artist Ursula Blackwell, wife of Hungarian architect Ernö Goldfinger, Gander has modernized one of the dishes that Blackwell and Goldfinger served to guests at parties hosted in their home in Hampstead Heath, London.

Guided tour of A Fragile But Marvelous Life and Make every show like it’s your last hosted by AAM staff.

With a melody that begins comfortably reminiscent of pop music, live voices appear unannounced within the exhibition A Fragile But Marvelous Life, taking center stage for the last time after numerous performances over the last twelve weeks.

Dancer/choreographer Flora Wiegmann and artist Anna Sew Hoy interact with Sew Hoy’s sculptures in the Roof Deck Sculpture Garden. Warm dress is encouraged for this outdoor performance.

Join the participating local and visiting artists who made Performance and Interventions possible for a reception on Level 3. Complimentary snacks and beverages are provided.

What can we learn from artists and their practices? How can art help us reimagine the world we live in? The AAM offers K–12 art teachers a free retreat to harness the transformational power of contemporary art for students. Sessions led in collaboration with Flavia Bastos, Director of Graduate Studies in Visual Arts Education at the University of Cincinnati.

Free, drop-in spotlight tours led by museum staff are offered every Wednesday and Saturday at 1 p.m.

This after-school program for kids in grades K–4 is held weekly at the Aspen Art Museum from September through May. Taking place most Wednesdays from 2:30–4 p.m., these workshops recognize the value of exposing children to the arts at an early age and use the artist’s process as an educational tool. Museum educators and teaching artists lead classes that include activities in the gallery and take-home projects.

Classes are limited to fifteen participants. Prior registration is strongly encouraged.

Hal Foster is the Townsend Martin Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University. Author and editor of numerous publications over thirty years, his most recent book, Bad New Days: Art, Criticism, Emergency, was released in September 2015. He will present a lecture entitled “Preposterous Sculpture: The Classical Tradition in Contemporary Art.”