Mountain Musings
Written by David Stillman Meyer and updated from time to time.
WHAT'S REALLY FOR SALE AT ART FAIRS
I try to read between the booths at one of the world's largest art fairs.
MARIANNE BOESKY: GREED GROWS UP
Gordon Gekko’s real life daughter, gallerist Marianne Boesky, turns an old thieves’ cabin in Aspen into an architectural gem. Annabelle Zelldorf helped.
HERBERT BAYER
Learn more about the Herbert Bayer Magic Carpet installation at the Elk Camp Restaurant, part of the Bauhaus100: Aspen, a valley-wide, year-long celebration of the German school’s important influence on the development of Aspen.
BAUHAUS IN ASPEN
One hundred years ago, the 20th century’s most revolutionary and influential school of design, art and architecture was founded in Weimar, Germany. When the Nazis shut it down 14 years later, students and teachers fled to the cultural capitals of the world: Paris, Chicago, New York, etc. One such émigré, a Bauhaus instructor, traveled all the way to the American West, to an obscure little town that reminded him of his youth in Austria.
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT: RASHID JOHNSON AT THE ASPEN ART MUSEUM
A New Yorker finds “utopia” in the mountains.
Ryan McGinness channels Andy Warhol’s flower power in Aspen
The massive install of nearly 500 new works sheds new light on one Warhol’s more overlooked series.