The local artist Daniel Sprick -- an instructor at Colorado Mountain College -- is strutting his stuff for the general public at the Glenwood Springs campus.
The Aspen Art Museum is enamored of art of all kinds, including movies of the offbeat kind. In conjunction with the current "Disembodied" group exhibition, the museum debuts the first of three consecutive Thursday night feature-length film selections that examine the human body and attitudes about how aging and imperfection are codified. Japanese director Shohei Imamura's powerful 1983 drama, "The Ballad of Narayama," offers a glimpse into a world where survival overrules compassion and fate is determined out of starving necessity."
The Red Brick features an exhibit of resident artists — Maggie Butler, Jonathan Martin, Susan Olsen, Elizabeth Farson, David Notor, Jennine Hough, Shelly Safir Marolt, Betty Weiss, and more.
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Aspen, CO, August 2, 2010–– The Studio for Arts + Works (SAW) will feature a First Friday benefit for Flash Bell and Anderson Ranch Art Center’s student scholarships. Flash Bell, one of the studio dogs at SAW, was recently hit by a car. Some of SAW’s friends have generously donated works to a group show called “Flash Drive.” A portion of the evening’s proceeds will go to Flash’s veterinary bills. Other proceeds will be donated to Anderson Ranch’s scholarship funds. Artists featured at “Flash Drive” will include: James Surls, Mark Cesark, Rick Parsons, Brad Reed Nelson, Doug Casebeer, John Hitchcock, Jason Schneider, Erin Dinsmoor, Elizabeth Ferrel, Paul Collins, Stanley Bell, Steven Colby, Carly Rebeiz, Diane Kenney, Alleghany Meadows, Sam Harvey, K. Rynus Cesark, among others.
Continue Reading August 10th, 2010
To The Editor:
In a town where contention is the norm, I was excited to hear the plan for a new Aspen Art Museum on Galena Plaza is likely to come to a vote May 5, 2009. In a time when budgets are being scrutinized and any City expenditure has to be looked at askance, the museum is asking only for the City to sell the land necessary to make it happen. That’s right: the City will actually make money in the deal, and the museum will foot the bill for the entire design by the esteemed green architect Shigeru Ban.
Continue Reading February 18th, 2009
Each year, Anderson Ranch Arts Center celebrates creativity and service to the arts by recognizing the accomplishments of key figures in the art world. This year’s honorees are: Cindy Sherman, National Artist Award, and Dan Cameron , Service to the Arts Award. The awards will be presented at the 13th annual Recognition Dinner on Wednesday, July 8, 2009.
Continue Reading February 3rd, 2009
Amazing I'm not hearing things! The other morning while on vacation in Aspen I crossed the old iron bridge near the Aspen Art museum and thought I heard music. And I did. It is simply amazing to stand in the middle of the old iron bridge and hear this lovely music enchanting your every being, as the river flows and the birds chirp.
I decided to stop in and see what this is all about at the Museum. Susan Philipsz is utilizing the 2 speakers on the bridge as part of her art museum display. Music has become both an aesthetic device and an important touchstone for many artists, and uses of emotive and psychological properties of sound also coincide with a current reinvestigation of the romantic notion of melancholy—historically identified as a state of malaise, disaffection, and inactivity. Unknown Pleasures features a number of international contemporary artists working in a variety of media, who explore the connections between music and melancholy, but instead focus on its generative potential.
Along with works in the AAM Upper Gallery and outdoor installations on the museum grounds, Unknown Pleasures will also feature a listening station devoted to musical recordings and albums produced by artists exploring the interrelationship of contemporary art and music.
Artists featured in the exhibition include Sanford Biggers, Anne Collier, Jesper Just, Tim Lee, Euan Macdonald, Susan Philipsz, Ugo Rondinone, Melanie Schiff, and Wilhelm Sasnal.
Unknown Pleasures is organized by the Aspen Art Museum and funded in part by the AAM Nation http://www.aspenartmuseum.org/
Next time you think about taking a vacation, I highly recommend just staying in Aspen and enjoying what we have right here in our back yard.
September 19th, 2008
All that would be well and good if the story in any way backed up the twin contentions. Yes, in the story City Attorney John Worcester says it will come to a vote but no other evidence is presented to confirm the story’s premise or to indicate that getting by without a vote is “not likely.” As for those dissatisfied residents, one can eventually find “Aspenite Phyllis Bronson” as the one resident (singular) who remains unconvinced on the record that the museum on the Z-G property may not be a great idea.
Continue Reading September 9th, 2008
The Con Man sets the table for the terrorists as they re-group in the Middle East, then welcomes filmaker Bob Compton and his "2 Million Minutes," about eduction in China, India and the United States.
Also: jewelry designer Ariane Zurcher, the grandaughter of Walter and Elizabeth Paepcke, the founders of modern Aspen.
Click here for the complete "Con Games with Michael Conniff" for Tuesday July 1, 2008.
July 1st, 2008
It’s like finding home. When I thought of home I thought of Aspen. We spent a lot of summers here, and came out for Christmas. Smoo was larger than life. My parents didn’t say: “Do you know who your grandparents are?” We didn’t have an inflated sense of who we were. It wasn’t up for discussion. I was so oblivious as a child of the [Smoo] myth, not the myth, the whole persona, and part of who she was. To me we were going to Aspen and it was this great space. We got to ski for free. I would nod my head. I knew there was a park, an auditorium with her name on it. Now we spend three or four months a year here. Every school break, spring break, winter break, and part of the summer. Nick wants to spend the whole summer here. And Emma, when we bring her back to school, she takes a leap every time.
Continue Reading June 30th, 2008
In a comprehensive article, Vail Daily’s Stewart Oksenhorn taps the impeccable tastes of Belly Up owner Michael Goldberg, local song writer Tom Ressel, Wine Spectator magazine critic at-large Harvey Steinman, and others to enumerate the must-see events in Aspen this summer. “Everybody and their brother knows what goes on in Aspen during the summertime,” Oksenhorn writes. “But which among them are the truly outstanding events, with potential strong enough to pique the interest of the people whose job it is to pay attention to this stuff?” Here’s a partial list of Oksenhorn’s findings:
Continue Reading June 8th, 2008
LS: I’d always done photography on the side. I was living in Austin and we were supposed to have a freeze. South Texas shuts down. It’s so humid, it doesn’t snow but it’s ice and sleet. Dangerous and very exciting. I knew I was going to have to stay home and I had this urge to color with crayons. This urge for crayons. I had forgotten about this. There was a Michael’s by my apartment, and I bought a big box of crayons. I always liked looking at paint and paint samples. So I was looking around and thought I’ll buy some paints too. My sister has that first painting and it’s awful. Ten years ago. It was a dream. I had studied photography and art history.
MC: What was the first painting like?
LS: Goofy. I bought a book on how to paint with acrylics. I could actually mix it and thin it. Interestingly enough, after that, I was painting hearts but they were very abstract. I did one for everyone in my family. That’s what came out. I see it as a metaphor to follow my heart. I had to paint a lot of hearts to follow my heart.
Continue Reading April 16th, 2008
ASPEN, COLORADO (Post Time News)—There’s no debate over the need for more office space for both Pitkin County and City of Aspen employees.
But if such a building were to be built downtown on the Zupancis-Galena (Z-G) property owned by the City, taxpayers can expect to endure years of Main Street construction, more traffic at the entrance to Aspen, and a bill for the new building approaching “$50 million to $60 million”—a cost at least $13 million more than building an equivalent structure on land owned by Pitkin County at the Aspen Airport Business Center (ABC).
Continue Reading December 10th, 2007
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