Aspen Art Museum

Join us for the opening day of the 2023 ArtCrush Auction Preview.

On View from July 27–August 3

The ArtCrush 2023 auction includes a curated selection of exceptional works by world-renowned artists. Lots range from under $5,000 to over $500,000 and include painting, sculpture, ceramics, work on paper, and design.

Free and open to all

Registration Required

Join us for an enlightening afternoon at the Aspen Art Museum, where leaders of AIA Colorado, the statewide voice of the architecture profession, rowland+broughton architecture and interior design, and CORE, a nonprofit committed to leading the Roaring Fork Valley towards a carbon-free, net zero energy future, present an exploration of the present and future state of architecture in Colorado’s mountainous regions.

Free and open to the public

Join us for the unveiling of ArtCrush Honoree Nairy Baghramian’s new site-specific commission for the Aspen Art Museum, created as part of her solo exhibition Jupon de Corps. 

To celebrate ArtWeek, the Aspen Art Museum will be open on Monday, July 31.

Limited to AAM Members and ArtCrush Guests

Join Aspen Art Museum and Prada in celebrating the start of Aspen ArtWeek with a Welcome Party hosted at the Museum. ArtCrush Gala auction works will be displayed for patrons to view. The party features music by DJ Cardamami.

Free and open to the public
Registration required.

In conjunction with the current show A Lover’s Discourse, participating artists Guglielmo Castelli (b. 1987, Italy), Chase Hall (b. 1993, USA), Stanislava Kovalcikova (b. 1988, Czechoslovakia) and Zeinab Saleh (b. 1996, Kenya) come together in a panel, moderated by AAM Curator-at-Large Stella Bottai, to discuss their work and the making of the exhibition, in which their paintings are juxtaposed with pieces borrowed from private collections in Aspen.

12–4 PM
Free and open to the public
*Registration required
Artist Matt Copson, with composer Oliver Leith, will present a multi-sensory installation within the caves of Aspen’s storied Smuggler Mine. Celebrated for his virtuosic laser animations, innovative theater works and his 2022 opera *Last Days made also in collaboration with Leith, Copson will develop a site-specific, immersive environment that draws from the mine’s organic and built architectures to create a singular audiovisual world.

Free and open to the public.
Registration Required

Please join us on the rooftop of the Aspen Art Museum for a conversation between Komal Shah and Sarah Douglas to celebrate Making Their Mark: Art by Women in the Shah Garg Collection, a new publication edited by Mark Godfrey and Katy Siegel.

Free and open to the public

Join artist Roberto Lugo at his Aspen Art Museum rooftop Bodega and purchase ceramics made by the artist in support of the museum.

As part of the Aspen Art Museum’s ArtCrush Auction Exhibition, acclaimed Philadelphia-based artist, activist, and educator Roberto Lugo collaborates with his representing gallery, R & Company, and the Aspen Art Museum to transform his widely-recognized digital platform, The Village Potter, into a physical storefront.

Free and open to the public
Registration Required
Limited Seating

Hailed in contemporary art circles for her nuanced collaborations with artists such as Isaac Julien and Kahlil Joseph, and widely renowned for her once-in-a-generation talent, singer and songwriter Alice Smith, accompanied by pianist, Dennis Hamm, will perform a small, intimate set on the Aspen Art Museum’s rooftop against the backdrop of Aspen Mountain.