Aspen Art Museum

September 24, 2007

The third annual museum day at the Aspen Art Museum, being held September 29, 2007 will feature free general admission. Come and view the Avner Ben-Gal’s Sudden Poverty and Scupltors Drawing exhibition featuring nine artists including: featuring Matthew Barney, Anne Chu, Keith Edmier, Terisita Fernández, Jorge Pardo, Tobias Rehberger, Thomas Scheibitz, Katy Schimert, and Ricky Swallow during this fabulous event. The event is a national day when museums open their doors free of charge to Smithsonian magazine readers and those who regularly attend Smithsonian.com web site. The museum day is supported by the Smithsonian magazine, Hyundai Motor America, CITGO Petroleum Corporation and TIAA-CREF.

The free museum day is to open the lines of communication and diversity in the public opinion in which the Aspen Art Museum is proud to be participating.

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September 10, 2007

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THE ASPEN ART MUSEUM

Signs On For

Museum Day 2007 Presented By

Smithsonian Magazine and Hyundai Motor America

—Third Annual Museum Day Features

Free GENERAL ADMISSION on September 29, 2007—

—Please come to the AAM to view AVNER BEN-GAL’S: SUDDEN POVERTY and SCULPTORS DRAWING exhibitions—

ASPEN, COLORADO — On Saturday, September 29, 2007, the Aspen Art Museum will participate in “Museum Day,” presented by Smithsonian magazine and Hyundai Motor America. Museum Day is a day when museums and cultural institutions nationwide open their doors free of charge to Smithsonian magazine readers and Smithsonian.com visitors. Celebrating culture, learning and knowledge, Museum Day reflects the spirit of the magazine, and emulates the free-admission policy of the Smithsonian Institution’s Washington, DC-based facilities. This year’s Museum Day is also supported by CITGO Petroleum Corporation and, for the third consecutive year, TIAA-CREF.

Of the museum’s participation in the cooperative venture, Aspen Art Museum Director and Chief Curator Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson, states: “To be included in a network of cultural venues invested in giving free access to our institutions on Museum Day/September 29 sends a message that we are all committed to the larger discussion of engaging the public with the diversity of ideas each of us present. Be they artistic, scientific, historical, or some combination of each, the opportunity to enrich dialogue between the public and Museum Day institutions is a truly valuable enterprise. We here at the Aspen Art Museum are proud to be participating.”

Founded in 1979, the Aspen Art Museum is a non-collecting museum for contemporary art, located in the historic mountain community of Aspen, Colorado. Currently, the AAM is proud to present Israeli painter Avner Ben-Gal’s debut U.S. museum solo exhibition Sudden Poverty (Lower Gallery), and the nine-artist international exhibition Sculptors Drawing, featuring Matthew Barney, Anne Chu, Keith Edmier, Terisita Fernández, Jorge Pardo, Tobias Rehberger, Thomas Scheibitz, Katy Schimert, and Ricky Swallow (Upper Gallery). Both exhibitions are on view through October 14. The AAM is open year-round, offering free public lectures and guided tours of museum exhibitions, private collection tours, international members’ art trips, art outreach programs in regional schools, and other community-based programming.

Last year, approximately 30,000 people attended Museum Day. Forty-nine states were represented by 448 participating museums, including 55 Smithsonian affiliates.

Attendees must present Smithsonian magazine’s Museum Day Admission Card to gain free entry to participating institutions. The Museum Day Admission Card is available in the September issue of Smithsonian magazine and a downloadable version is available on the Museum Day website at www.smithsonian.com/museumdaycard. The general public is welcome to participate by going to the Smithsonian.com website and downloading the Museum Day Admission Card. Listings and links to other participating museums’ and sponsors’ sites can be found at www.smithsonian.com/museumday.

About the Aspen Art Museum

Founded in 1979, the Aspen Art Museum is a globally preeminent non-collecting institution that presents the newest, most important evolutions in international contemporary art. Innovative and timely exhibitions, education and public programs, immersive activities, and community happenings actively engage audiences in thought-provoking experiences of art, culture, and society. Further details can be obtained online at www.aspenartmuseum.org, or by calling the AAM at 970.925.8050.

About Smithsonian Publishing

Founded in 1970 with the launch of Smithsonian magazine, Smithsonian Publishing—comprised of Smithsonian magazine, Air & Space, goSmithsonian and the Smithsonian digital network—allows the intellectually curious to indulge and engage their passions for history, the arts, science, the natural world, culture and travel. Smithsonian Publishing’s flagship publication, Smithsonian magazine, has a circulation of more than 2 million. This multi-media network is also affiliated with the world’s most visited museum and research complexes at the Smithsonian Institution. For more information, visit www.smithsonianmagazine.com,

www.airandspacemag.com,, and www.gosmithsonian.com.

About Hyundai Motor America

Hyundai Motor America, headquartered in Fountain Valley, California, is a subsidiary of Hyundai Motor Co. Of Korea. Hyundai vehicles are distributed throughout the United States by Hyundai Motor America and are sold and serviced through more than 750 dealerships nationwide.

About CITGO

CITGO, based in Houston, is a refiner and marketer of transportation fuels, lubricants, petrochemicals, refined waxes, asphalt and other industrial products. The company is owned by PDV America, Inc., an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary of Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A., the national oil company of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.

About TIAA-CREF

TIAA-CREF is a national financial services organization with over $412 billion in combined assets under management and the leading provider of retirement saving products and services in the academic, research, medical and cultural fields. TIAA-CREF is committed to a long-term approach to investing, providing guidance tailored to the unique needs of our clients and offering products with among the lowest expenses in the industry.

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