Arts

Ingrid Fetell Lee talks about the difference between happiness and joy and how we can stimulate our senses to produce joy.

Harman/Eisner Artist in Residence Edmund de Waal uses porecelain to create soulful and delicate vessels that transcend time. Here, the celebrated ceramicist meditates on the idea of transcending place.

Millions the world over have heard opera superstar Jessye Norman sing, and they have come away richer for the experience. When Norman was named as an Aspen Institute Harman-Eisner Artist in Residence, we also heard her speak a bit. Unsurprisingly, everything that came out of her mouth was golden.

The Institute celebrated the centennial of the famed German design school by exploring artist Herbert Bayer’s influence on the Aspen campus—and why it is “a total work of art.”

This year, the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus School of Design, Lynda and Stewart Resnick donated $10 million for a new center on the Institute’s campus in Aspen dedicated to the work of artist Herbert Bayer.

When people describe architect Frank Gehry, they often use the adjective “forward-thinking.” It’s impossible to look at his work and n

Experts reflect on the many diverse, divergent, and at times even divisive ways in which the spirit of the Bauhaus lives on 100 years after its inception.

A conversation with the Aspen Institute’s 2019 Harman-Eisner Artist in Residence, Edmund de Waal.

Despite common misperception, architecture was not officially integrated as a part of the Bauhaus curriculum until 1927 when Gropius appoin