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The eighth month of 2021 was so busy in Aspen that retail sales shattered figures from both August of 2019 and 2020.

Intersect Aspen announces details of August 1-5 pop-up art fair Saul Steinberg, Untitled,1986-90. Felt marker, crayon, and pencil with erasures on paper, 14.5 x 19.5 in. 37 x 49.5 cm. Photo: Courtesy TOTAH. NEW YORK, NY .- This year’s pop-up edition of Intersect Aspen, taking place August 1 through 5 at the Aspen Ice Garden, will showcase 30 galleries from 26 cities, and will feature a wide array of special programming taking place daily. Intersect Aspen will open with a VIP Preview Brunch on Sunday, August 1 from 10am to 11am, followed by a Public Opening Reception from 11am to 12pm. The Fa...

Intersect Aspen, the art fair formerly known as ArtAspen, will return to the Aspen Ice Garden Aug. 1-5. Intersect Aspen, the contemporary art fair formerly known as ArtAspen, will return for an in-person 30-gallery event in the Aspen Ice Garden this August. Intersect Art and Design, which acquired ArtAspen in April 2020, hosted a virtual version of the fair last summer due to the novel coronavirus pandemic. Its first in-person offing will include galleries from 24 cities in the U.S., Europe and Asia with participation by several local galleries and nonprofit arts organizations. The fair will ...

  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...

Monica King closes Tribeca space and launches new venture for 2021 Monica King. Photo: Weston Wells. NEW YORK, NY .-Monica King announced Monica King Projects, a newly-formed initiative which includes two new endeavors for 2021, a future series of traveling exhibitions in response to declining travel and art fairs, alongside an artist-in-residency based on a two-acre forested retreat in Litchfield County, Connecticut. The program also announces the addition of seven new artists to the artist roster including Hyun Jung Ahn, Chellis Baird, Lauren Ball, Kharis Kennedy, Aleksandra Stone, Michael...