Take A Peek Inside The Aspen Institute's Resnick Center for Herbert Bayer Studies
By Ella JeffriesBy Ella Jeffries|June 28, 2022|Lifestyle, culture, Art,
The long-awaited grand opening of the Aspen Institute’s Resnick Center for Herbert Bayer Studies has finally arrived. During the Aspen Ideas Festival in June, art connoisseurs had their first look at Aspen’s newest museum, which features nearly 8,000 square feet of exhibition space to celebrate the legacy of the iconic artist and designer, Herbert Bayer.
The center’s inaugural exhibition, titled “Herbert Bayer: An Introduction,” is free and open to the public, and attendees can expect a comprehensive, six-decade survey of Bayer’s work, the first of its kind since 1973. The artwork is chronologically arranged across 13 galleries and highlights over 150 rarely exhibited works.
Located on the Aspen Institute’s Aspen Meadows campus, the building itself is designed to support museum-grade conditions for the display and storage of fine art, and beginning later this year, it will include a museum shop, education center and an archival study room for invited scholars.
“The Resnick Center for Herbert Bayer Studies is the Aspen Institute’s new, free art venue that welcomes visitors and locals to learn more about Herbert Bayer, the polymathic artist who designed the Meadows campus and helped transform Aspen, ” says Lissa Ballinger, acting director of the Resnick Center for Herbert Bayer Studies. For more info, go to thebayercenter.org.