The Aspen Art Museum quietly ended its lift ticket partnership with the Aspen Skiing Company this ski season, after 12 winters of curating artists and artwork for passes to the slopes.
They’re continuing their joint “Art in Unexpected Places” program, the phenomenal initiative that gives us pop-up artwork on the mountains and on the mural wall at Elk Camp and that has been the subject of two books.
But the SkiCo is now on its own to design its lift tickets, beginning with the ill-advised and underwhelming works on the 2017-18 ski passes. These pieces depicting crushed or stacked red Solo cups may work as sculpture, but on the ski pass cards these photos of Crown’s hand-painted plaster sculptures lose whatever power or social message or magic those sculptures carried. They simply look like photos of keg party trash.
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