Mark Grotjahn at Aspen Art Museum

Lift tickets, lodges and museums carry the artist's abstract representations

Surveying more than two decades of work by contemporary artist Mark Grotjahn, the new exhibition at the Aspen Art Museum provides a comprehensive overview of his paintings, drawings, installations and sculptures. Known for his rigidly geometric Op Art-like compositions, which earned him the honor of exhibiting at the 2006 Whitney Biennial, in Aspen Grotjahn will also move beyond museum walls with a sculptural invasion spread …

Studio Visit: Angel Otero

Instinctual layered paintings driven by process

As soon as you enter Puerto Rican artist Angel Otero‘s Brooklyn work loft, the intense smell of paint nearly stops you at the door. Shelves housing copious tubes of oil paint and rows of Montana spray cans lining the back walls allude to the strong odor, but it’s the stacks of work drying on wooden pallets surrounding the space that are really the culprit. But …

Musical Toys

Three downsized instruments teach aspiring children musical basics

Developing an interest in music at a young age is tremendously important to a child’s development. While toy versions of instruments have always been popular among parents, it can be difficult to parse the cheap imitators from the quality products. Coming out of this year’s Toy Fair, there were a few notable companies that are uniting design and durability in child-oriented instruments. Loog Guitar The …