Year in review: A turning point for the arts in Aspen
Performances returned, a beloved ballet company shuttered and pop-ups popped up everywhere as the pandemic reshaped Aspen’s arts and culture landscape in 2021.
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Performances returned, a beloved ballet company shuttered and pop-ups popped up everywhere as the pandemic reshaped Aspen’s arts and culture landscape in 2021.
SUMMER IN … This feature was originally published in the 2021 edition of “Summer in Aspen/Snowmass,” which is on newsstands now around the Roaring Fork Valley. It as well as other 2021 visitor guides are available anytime at http://www.aspentimes.com/magazines. If you haven’t made the rounds in Aspen art galleries lately, you’ll find many new players and programs on the scene following an unexpected boom during the pandemic. Galleries were able to open quickly after the spring 2020 lockdown, providing sanctuary for people seeking solace or inspiration when most every other cultural...
The pandemic stripped away the social side out of Aspen’s historically lively art and gallery scene. Yes, galleries were able to open quickly after the spring 2020 lockdown and, yes, they provided sanctuary for people seeking solace or inspiration when most every other cultural hub was closed. But there were no opening receptions and shoulder-to-shoulder crowds, no walk-throughs, no in-person artist talks. Art viewing has mostly been a solitary or virtual venture. Even as several new players arrived on the local scene, they arrived quietly. There were positives to be found in the experie...
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Featured in What an Abolitionist Exhibition Looks Like in a Carceral World At MoMA PS1, New York, Nicole R. Fleetwood curates a show that considers the artistic output of those irrevocably shaped by the conditions of the prison industrial complex ‘Mass incarceration’, a phrase that has gained much purchase in the last two decades, features prominently in the title of ‘Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration’, an exhibition at New York’s MoMA PS1 and a book published by Harvard University Press. Both are the culmination of more than ten years of effort by...