Mountain Mayhem: Art Week | Aspentimes.com

Mountain Mayhem: Art Week | Aspentimes.com
Mountain Mayhem: Art Week | Aspentimes.com
Artcrus co-chair Sarah Arison with the executive director of the Aspen Art Museum Nicola Lees.
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Art Week started on Monday, July 28th, in Aspen and continued until Sunday, August 3, with art fairs and innovative programming from private collection tours to fine restaurants to performance. During the week, cultural partners, media partners, sponsors, galleries, artists and patrons came together on behalf of the arts, exchanged ideas and supported art.

The Aspen Art Museum set air or art in a 10-year $ 20 million initiative with Lugano, which closed with a retreat and culminated in a free public festival. Sarah Broughton with Rowland+Broughton Architecture and Interior Architecture was invited to curate a conceptual design room for the Artcrush auction exhibition in the Aspen Art Museum. Title “In the gardenThe design space served as an experimental tableau Vivant and shows the objects curated for the quiet auction. The annual Artcrush Gala, presented by Zegna, contained a “heavenly night” Topic and honored artist Glenn Ligon with the Lewis Family Art Award 2025. The Artcrush Auction and Gala is the largest annual fundraising campaign by the museum and has collected more than 4 million US dollars to support the pioneering exhibitions and dynamic educational programs of the museum – all of the public free of charge.

Aspen Art Fair was founded in his second year in the Hotel Jerome of Bob Chase by Aspens Hexton Gallery and Becca Hoffman from the Global Arts Business 74. Art. The opening day showed a demonstration of the award -winning short film “Medusa” in the Aspen Film Isis Theater. A panel followed with the investor and philanthropic Melony Lewis Modenting and filmmaker and artist Sarah Meyohas, founder and CEO of the MART AGENCY Marine Tanguy as well as executive and artistic director at Aspen Film Susan Wrubel.



The Aspen Art Fair included the ballroom of the Jerome, the guest rooms on the ground floor on the ground floor and was a great success that doubled in size compared to the year. There were record sales, including Maxmilian's Gallery of Nine David Shrigley prints bought by a single buyer, with a new wall of prints that were hung in their place.

Small Aspen Art + Design Fair, founded by the brothers Tim and Dirk von Gal, celebrated 15 years in Aspen Ice Garden and transformed the room into an art forum with open air. This year also broke records with the highest participation, strong sales and great programming. 212gallery put over 45 works by Shepard Fairey from his latest Aspen exhibition “One Earth” after the unveiling of his public wall in the city center on the curved wall on the local corner. In addition, photographer Cristina Mittermeier was honored with the artist prize by Crosseect Aspen Art + Design. Mittermeier (represented by Hilton Contemporary) is trained in marine science and in fine art photography, has shaped the term “nature conservation photography” and has pioneering work for the use of visual stories as strength for ecological and cultural preservation.



Art Week proved to be an urgent, committed meeting of the heads and the cooperation between brands and can continue to increase the bar in the coming years.

Mountain Mayhem: Art Week | Aspentimes.com
Mayor Pro Tem John Doyle, after presenting artists Shepard Fairey as Katie Kiernan with the Galerie 212 -Looks the key to the city.
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A cross -fun art fair discussion with the artist Paula Crown, the Art + Design Award of the Fair, Cristina Mittermeier, and the president and CEO of Anderson Ranch Peter Waanders.
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The co -founders of Aspen Art Fair Becca Hoffman and Bob Chase outside of his Hexton Gallery.
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Curator Carrie Scott with intersection Aspen Art + Design 2025 artist award winner Cristina Mittermeier.
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Suzanna Lee and Kristin Pruett with Zegna, the title sponsor of Artcrus 2025.
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Sarah Broughton with Rowland + Broughton Architecture + interior design in the design room, which she created in the Aspen Art Museum for Art Week.
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Artist Topher Straus with Tim Cook, CEO from Apple, on the intersectaspen Art Fair.
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Melony Lewis, Deborah Scott, Jody Post and Meredith Darrow from Artcrus.
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Glenn Ligon, the Ligon 2025 Lewis Family Art Award, with artist Mickalene Thomas in Artcrush.
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Mountain Mayhem: Art Week | Aspentimes.com
Investor and philanthrope Melony Lewis, filmmaker and artist Sarah Meyohas, founder and CEO of the MART Agency Marine Tanguy as well as senior and artistic director at Aspen Film Susan Wrubel after the presentation of the award-winning short film “Medusa” in the Aspen film Isis Theater.
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