Aspen Art Museum

Member events

• Aug 2, 2018

  • 6 PM

    PreviewCrush &
    PreviewExtra

    Hosted by Baldwin Gallery and free and open to the public, PreviewCrush is your first chance to view the most impressive Live and Silent Auction artworks to be featured at the ArtCrush auction the following day

• Aug 3, 2018

  • 10 PM

    AfterPartyCrush

    A fun-filled dance party, AfterPartyCrush takes place at Aspen’s leading late-night entertainment venue, Belly Up, and features live music from world-famous artist Jellybean Benitez.

• Feb 16, 2019

  • 6 PM

    AAM Artist Party

    Generously hosted by Nancy and Richard Rogers, the AAM Artist Party is the most exclusive event of winter 2019. Guests will enjoy an evening of glamorous cocktails, dinner, premium wines, dancing, and festivities. The highlight the evening will be the live auction featuring one-of-a-kind experiences with the world’s most celebrated and visionary artists.

• Dec 28, 2019

  • 4 PM

    The Next

    Cocktails, Caviar, & Silent Auction

    Join us on the AAM’s Roof Deck Sculpture Garden and be treated to Pearl Street Caviar, premium cocktails, and champagne. Featuring music by Timo Weiland, craft cocktails at the ROXOR Artisan Gin ice bar, a silent auction of curated experiences and items, and Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirror Room!

• Oct 1, 2020

  • 9 AM How To...

    How To… Support Artists Now with Deana Haggag

    We are delighted to invite you to the second event in our “How To…” series, a discussion about new ways of thinking about philanthropy in the arts.
    
    Deana Haggag is the president & CEO of United States Artists, a national arts funding organization based in Chicago, IL. Previously, she was the executive director of the Contemporary, a nomadic, non-collecting museum in Baltimore, MD, for four years. Haggag, who lectures extensively, is on the Board of Trustees of the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Artistic Director’s Council of Prospect.5, and the Advisory Council of Recess.

    United States Artists, typically a grant-making body, have adapted to the current health crisis and its impact on artists by distributing almost $20 million in the form of $5,000 emergency relief checks to artists around America.

• Oct 9, 2020

  • 9 AM Art Fairs

    Frieze Viewing Rooms: Frieze London and Frieze Masters Opening Day with Victoria Siddall

    We’re delighted to invite you to a members-only digital walk through of the Frieze Viewing Rooms on Opening Day, Wednesday, October 7, at 9 AM MT, led by Frieze Fairs Global Director Victoria Siddall. Victoria will take us on a brief tour of the platform and its new features, and focus on some of her personal highlights of this year’s Frieze London and Frieze Masters.

• Oct 15, 2020

  • 9 AM How To...

    How To… Bring Artists into the Mainstream Market with David Galperin and Nina del Rio

    We are delighted to invite you to the third event in our “How To…” series for a behind-the-scenes look at how auction houses work to create value.
    
    Knowing when the market will react well to an emerging or unknown artist at auction—and at what price—is the topic of this discussion between David Galperin, Head of Sotheby’s Evening Sales for the New York Contemporary Art Department, and Nina del Rio, who recently assumed leadership of Sotheby’s Advisory Services after fifteen years as Sotheby’s Head of Museum, Private and Corporate Art Sales, where she brought institutional and corporate collections to market.

• Oct 21, 2020

  • 9 AM How To...

    How To… Make sense of the Philip Guston Controversy with Julia Halperin

    We interrupt our regularly scheduled “How To…” programming to bring you a specially scheduled edition on Thursday, October 22, at 9 a.m. MT, for insight into the postponement of the Philip Guston retrospective scheduled for 2021 at major US institutions and the Tate in London. Charlotte Burns will be in conversation with ArtNet executive editor Julia Halperin to share their findings on the real reasons behind the postponement and discuss how they are covering the issue as art journalists.

• Oct 30, 2020

  • 9 AM How To...

    How To… Buy Art During a Pandemic with Allan Schwartzman

    We are delighted to invite you to our next iteration in our “How To…” series for a behind-the-scenes look at how to buy art during a pandemic with Allan Schwartzman.
    
    Allan Schwartzman has more than twenty years of experience advising some of the world’s most influential and sophisticated collectors. He is widely respected as an independent curator—most notably for the visionary art park Instituto Inhotim set within a 5,000-acre botanical garden in Brazil. Schwartzman was a founding staff member of the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City and served as curator from 1977 to 1980. He was a contributing editor of Connoisseur and has written extensively about art for publications including the New Yorker, New York Times, Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, Artforum, and Art in America.

• Nov 12, 2020

  • 9 AM How to...

    How To… Spot and Nurture Artistic Talent with Simon Castets

    We are delighted to invite you to our next iteration in our “How To…” series with an inside look at how to spot and nurture artistic talent with Simon Castets.
    
    Simon Castets is the director and curator of the Swiss Institute, a leading non-profit organization in New York. The young French curator is known for “89plus,” a research project launched in collaboration with Serpentine Gallery director Hans Ulrich Obrist in 2013 chronicling the creative work of artists and other innovators born in or after 1989. Castets has also curated shows for other organizations, including Rachel Rose at the Aspen Art Museum in 2016.