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Talks and Lectures

  • Nov 7, 2019

    • Emily Rales, along with her husband Mitchell Rales, is the founder of the Glenstone Museum, a museum in Potomac, Maryland that opened to the public in October 2018 with a collection dedicated to post-World War II art. They envision Glenstone “not only as a place, but a state of mind created by the energy of architecture, the power of art, and the restorative qualities of nature.”

  • Mar 12, 2020

    • As the founding partner of Olson Kundig, Jim Olson has explored the aesthetic interplay of art, nature, and architecture, as well as the relationship between light and space, for over fifty years. Though best known for his houses designed for art collectors, he also designs museums, religious spaces, and commercial buildings. His recent work includes Kirkland Museum of Fine and Decorative Art in Denver and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Washington State University.

  • Jan 28, 2021

    • Veit Laurent Kurz, the architect of Winterfest: An Exhibition of Arts and Crafts, will be in conversation with the exhibition’s curator Saim Demircan. Together, they will elaborate on their collaborative process and discuss the history of experimental and organic architecture that has influenced Veit Laurent Kurz’s practice. They will also provide special insight into individual works included in Winterfest and touch on the intersection of art and design in Aspen.

  • Feb 18, 2021

    • Join Calgary-based artist, poet, musician Malcolm Mooney for a conversation with Winterfest curator Saim Demircan. Mooney will discuss the origins of his Damndemic Monsters watercolor series featured in Winterfest and how these artworks refer back to his time as the original singer of CAN, the prolific German experimental rock band that formed in Cologne in 1968.

  • Jul 22, 2021

    • 5 PM Questrom Lecture Series

      Artist Talk:
      Jill Magid and Evan Moffitt

      Aspen Art Museum Rooftop

      5-5:30 PM Drink reception
      5:30-6 PM Discussion
      6 PM Film Screening

      Free and open to the public

      Please Register Here

      Critic Evan Moffitt will be in conversation with artist Jill Magid to discuss her film The Proposal (2018, 87 minutes).

  • Feb 19, 2022

    • Free and open to the Public

      Acclaimed Warhol biographer, art critic Blake Gopnik, and AAM Curator at Large, artist Monica Majoli, consider Warhol’s relationship to intimacy in a wide-ranging discussion of the artist’s life as it relates to his work.

  • Feb 18, 2023

    • Free and open to the public.
      RSVP encouraged

      Join us for a public talk on Buddhism and the Ego with an extended Q & A with Trungram Gyalwa Rinpoche, the head of the Trungram lineage and one of the highest tulkus of the Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. This meditation will touch on themes related to Sanya Kantarovsky’s exhibition A Solid House.

  • Feb 19, 2023

    • The talk will take place on the rooftop of the Aspen Art Museum and is FREE and open to the public.
      Registration encouraged!

      Signed copies of András Szántó book Imagining the Future Museum: 21 Dialogues with Architects will be available for purchase.

  • Mar 4, 2023

    • Join us for a livestreamed event inspired by the major exhibition Hervé Télémaque: A Hopscotch of the Mind, presented by Serpentine and Aspen Art Museum, celebrating the work of pioneering Haitian artist, Hervé Télémaque.

      Double Language invites world-renowned artists, writers and thinkers to respond to the rich visual lexicon crafted by Télémaque, and explore how his decade-spanning practice continues to influence the role of language and literature in art today.

  • Apr 7, 2023

    • Free and Open to All
      Registration Required

      Join architect Chad Oppenheim at the Aspen Art Museum as he takes guests on an immersive journey through his firm’s work and philosophy that aims to realign and reconnect us to the world around us. His award-winning firm, Oppenheim Architecture, is known for architecture that celebrates the natural world and the inherent power of each site.