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article news schedule Sep 25, 2025 visibility 12 link 10 artists

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The Aspen Art Museum is undergoing a strategic shift under director Nicola Lees, moving away from its reputation as a collector's clubhouse toward becoming a global institution. The museum's annual ArtCrush gala and fundraiser week, once centered on wealth-displaying collector home visits and glitzy parties, now emphasizes intellectual programming like the inaugural AIR festival, a $20 million artist-led interdisciplinary initiative featuring talks by Werner Herzog and Hans Ulrich Obrist. This change comes amid soaring local real estate prices, including a $108 million home co-purchased by Steve Wynn and Thomas Peterffy, and contrasts the area's deep pockets with the museum's free admission since 2008.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 27, 2026 visibility 15 link 8 artists, 1 gallery

‘I was super horny when I made my early work’: Loie Hollowell’s abstract paintings of breasts and vaginas

Loie Hollowell discusses her latest painting series 'Overview Effect,' currently on view at Pace Gallery in London. The series features large-scale canvases with twin concave and convex sculpted circles, inspired by the out-of-body experience she had during the home birth of her daughter. The works continue her abstract exploration of pregnancy, birth, and the female body, following earlier series like 'Split Orb' and 'Dilation Stage' that responded to the difficult birth of her son. Hollowell cites influences including Georgia O'Keeffe, Louise Bourgeois, and Luchita Hurtado, as well as Instagram home-birth photographs and the Ina May Gaskin childbirth book.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 22, 2025 visibility 4 link 15 artists, 2 galleries

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The Parrish Art Museum held its Echoes of the Cosmos Midsummer Gala in the Hamptons, honoring artists Sanford Biggers, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, and Nina Yankowitz, along with local philanthropists Sandy and Stephen Perlbinder. The event drew over 720 guests, raised nearly $1.4 million for arts education and community programming, and featured live dance by Parsons Dance, a sunset dinner, and an afterparty with projections by Lozano-Hemmer on the museum's Herzog & de Meuron-designed building.

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