October 9, 2025

High Times

Aspen

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Adrián Villar Rojas, Alvaro Enrigue, Art, Articles, Diébédo Francis Kéré, Frida Escobedo, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Herzog & de Meuron, José Esparza Chong Cuy, Maya Lin, Moreau Kusunoki, Sara Imari Walker, Shigeru Ban, Sophia Al-Maria

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Modernism marks the beginning of linear time and the end of circular time, commented novelist Alvaro Enrigue. His remarks came amid an exchange with artist Adrián Villar Rojas— one of seventeen performances, keynotes, and dialogues presented as part of AIR Aspen: Life as No One Knows It, a weeklong interdisciplinary conference organized by the Aspen Art Museum. The inaugural festival, held in late July to time with the Aspen Art Fair and ArtCrush Gala, is the latest ideas summit to mine the Bauhaus-inflected legacy of the Aspen Institute’s legendary International Design Conference and gather minds in the Rockies.

Under the Influence

Two architects create a novel form of collage

Aperture

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Architecture, Art, Articles, Herzog & de Meuron, Mark Lee, Sharon Johnston, Thomas Ruff

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The architects Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee are seated at the long conference table in their Los Angeles office. Stacks of art and architecture books are piled in front of them, forming a landscape of references and influences. Lee picks up a sizable monograph, opens it to an image, and places the book on top of the pile. Thomas Ruff’s Sammlung Goetz (1994) fills a double-page spread. The photograph is a deadpan portrait of a contemporary art gallery in Munich designed by the Swiss architecture firm Herzog + de Meuron.

Hong Kong’s New M+ Museum

A Study in Contradiction

Metropolis

Mimi Zeiger

Critic, editor, curator and instigator.