Aspen Art Museum

Member events

• Dec 2, 2020

  • 10 AM Art Fairs

    Online Viewing Rooms: Art Basel Miami Beach with Noah Horowitz and Mary Zlot

    Please join us on Wednesday, December 2, at 10 AM MT, where Art Basel Miami Director Noah Horowitz will introduce this year’s digital edition of the fair. We will then visit five galleries, selected by the AAM, and introduced by art advisor and AAM National Council Member Mary Zlot. The directors of each gallery will lead us through a short highlights presentation of their virtual booth.

• Jan 21, 2021

  • 9 AM How To...

    How To… Curate the Venice Biennale with Cecilia Alemani

    We are delighted to kick off our 2021 “How To…” program with curator Cecilia Alemani, director of the 59th Venice Biennale (which has been postponed to summer 2022). Cecilia will be in conversation with journalist Charlotte Burns about her process in advance of the world-famous exhibition and the artists she is excited about at the moment.
    
    Cecilia Alemani is the Donald R. Mullen, Jr. director and chief curator of High Line Art, the public art program presented by the non-profit organization Friends of the High Line in New York City, where she has commissioned and curated projects by over 200 artists since 2012. She was the artistic director of Art Basel Cities 2018 in Buenos Aires, curator of the Italian Pavilion at the 2017 Venice Biennale, and she curated Frieze Projects in New York from 2012–17.
    
    

• Feb 10, 2021

  • 9 AM How To...

    How To… Run a Museum in China with Philip Tinari

    Our next “How To…” session is a conversation with journalist Charlotte Burns and American museum director Philip Tinari. He will discuss the current cultural landscape in China, the UCCA’s upcoming Warhol show, and the artists he is looking at right now.
    
    Philip Tinari is director and chief executive of UCCA Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing. Since joining in 2011, he has led its transformation from a founder-driven private museum into China’s leading independent contemporary art institution, presenting a wide range of exhibitions and programs to an annual audience of over one million visitors. In 2018, UCCA opened a second location, UCCA Dune, in an award-winning building buried under the sand on the beach in Beidaihe. UCCA Edge, in Shanghai’s Jing’an district, will open in May 2021. A widely published writer, Tinari was founding editor of the magazine LEAP and is a contributing editor of Artforum. He was co-curator of the 2017 exhibition Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World at the Guggenheim and SFMOMA, and curator of the 2016 exhibition Bentu: Chinese Artists in a Time of Turbulence and Transformation at Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris. He is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum and a fellow of the Public Intellectuals Program of the National Committee on US-China Relations. Fluent in Mandarin, Tinari was a Fulbright scholar at Tsinghua, and holds degrees from Duke and Harvard

• Feb 25, 2021

  • 9 AM How To...

    How To… Create a More Equitable Art World with Ebony L. Haynes

    We talk to Ebony L. Haynes, a writer and curator from Toronto whose focus is on helping to remedy the lack of Black decision-makers in the commercial art world.

• Mar 11, 2021

  • 9 AM How To...

    How To… Understand NFTs with Anny Shaw

    The art world is abuzz with the emergence of “digital collectibles” known as Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), which live on a blockchain. What are they and how to understand them is the topic of our next How To… session with journalist Anny Shaw.
    
    Anny Shaw is a correspondent for the Art Newspaper, reporting on auctions, art fairs, and market news since 2010. She trained as a journalist in her native south London and has contributed to the Telegraph, the Guardian, Apollo, LUX, and Frieze magazines, among others. She has a first-class BA in Art History from the Courtauld Institute of Art and an MA in Contemporary Art Theory from Goldsmiths, University of London.

• Mar 24, 2021

  • 10 AM Art Fairs

    Online Viewing Rooms for Art Basel: Pioneers with Noah Horowitz and Mary Zlot

    We are delighted to offer you access to the Online Viewing Rooms for Art Basel: Pioneers, which will focus on artists who have broken new ground in their aesthetics, conceptual approach, sociopolitical themes, and mediums.
    
    On Wednesday, March 24th, at 10 a.m. MST, AAM National Council member Mary Zlot will lead conversations with a group of exhibiting galleries selected by the AAM about their presentations.

• Apr 8, 2021

  • 9 AM How To...

    How To … Track the Art World Through Data with Julia Halperin

    We are delighted to invite you to the next edition of “How To…” where Charlotte Burns will be in conversation with journalist Julia Halperin about how the art market and museums are behind the curve when it comes to learning from data. Topics discussed will include the results of an art market study of African American and Women artists and trends in institutional behavior.
    
    Julia Halperin is executive editor of Artnet News, where she oversees editorial operations for the world’s most widely read art news site and manages a staff of editors and writers in London, Berlin, and New York. Previously, she served as the news editor of Art + Auction magazine and as the museums editor of the Art Newspaper, where she oversaw international coverage of museums and other major art institutions. Her writing has appeared in WIRED magazine, the New York Observer, and New York magazine.

• Apr 30, 2021

  • 10 AM Art Fairs

    Frieze New York: Preview with Rebecca Siegel and Mary Zlot

    In advance of Frieze New York, which takes place in person at The Shed in NY May 5-9, and digitally May 5-14, we are inviting you to join us on Friday, April 30, at 10 AM MT for a digital preview of the fair.

• Jul 31, 2021

  • 2 PM ArtCrush

    Midsummer Blowout
    with Sparkle Nation’s Gabrielle Rucker, KDNK, and performance by Brothers of Brass
    

    Free and open to the public
    
    no registration required
    
    The AAM invites the community to join Gabrielle Rucker of Sparkle Nation Book Club for a special youth program. Live music will be courtesy of KDNK community radio and Denver-based band Brothers of Brass. Other family activities include garden-related art-making activities.
    
    

• Aug 3, 2021

  • 4 PM ArtCrush

    The Illicit Gin Institute program by Zina Saro-Wiwa

    Registration Required
    
    Free and open to the public
    
    Aspen Art Museum
    
    We welcome British-Nigerian artist Zina Saro-Wiwa to Aspen to unveil some of her rare and delicious botanical gins from her Illicit Gin Institute distillery. The Illicit Gin Institute is a thinktank and distillery created by the artist that explores the poetics and possibilities of palm wine gin—also known as “kaikai” or “ogogoro” or “illicit gin.” A spirit that, like tequila or clairin rum, was at first created by necessity as an inexpensive drink. Unlike tequila or rum, however, it has not yet been understood or appreciated globally. In this smoky yet smooth palm wine spirit, Saro-Wiwa sees a potent vehicle for storytelling, regeneration, and environmental repair. A voice for the maligned but historically Edenic Niger Delta region from which she hails. She has woven the gin into her art practice since 2013, and it has now culminated in the building of her own distillery and a research drive into Niger Delta botanicals and foodways. The tasting will consist of an introductory lecture and tastings of some of the botanical gins produced by her experimental distillery in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Her delicious botanical gin chocolates will also be offered.