Andrew Travers

Aspen

Journalist and Editor at Freelance

Journalist and editor | Recent bylines @TheAtlantic & @ColoradoSun | Formerly @TheAspenTimes

Articles

Opinion: Who is the real “Brutalist”? Aspen icon Hebert Bayer is among Oscar-nominated film’s Bauhaus inspirations.

1 month ago | coloradosun.com | Andrew Travers

There is no single historical model for the fictional Bauhaus-trained architect and American immigrant in “The Brutalist,” which is nominated for 10 Academy Awards in Sunday’s ceremony. Among its inspirations is Herbert Bayer, whose life and work in Aspen from the mid-1940s to the mid-1970s informs aspects of the fictional “Brutalist” played by Oscar-nominated Adrien Brody in this swaggering cinematic epic.
A Year of Firsts at the Bayer Center

2 months ago | aspensojo.com | Andrew Travers

Last spring, a parent stopped me when I was picking up my kid from after-school gymnastics at the Red Brick Center for the Arts in Aspen. She had seen my name on a permission slip for a field trip to the Bayer Center at the Aspen Institute and asked, “What’s Bayer? What’s a Bayer Center?” An elementary school-age boy nearby overheard and interjected, in rapid-fire fashion with a know-it-all swagger: “You’ve never heard of Herbert Bayer?
Did the Beanie Baby Founder Destroy a Bauhaus Masterpiece?

Jan 8, 2025 | hollywoodreporter.com | Andrew Travers

Herbert Bayer’s Walk in Space Painting in Montecito in 1981, the year of its completion.
What Aspen's Airport Expansion Could Mean for Ski Towns Everywhere

Oct 23, 2024 | skimag.com | Andrew Travers |Sierra Shafer

Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members! Download the app. On a fall evening in 1995, gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson stormed into Aspen’s Club Soda bar with a glass of Chivas Regal in hand, rallying locals around a simple message: “There is Some Shit We Won’t Eat.” The fight? An airport expansion that symbolized the town’s battle against overdevelopment.
What Was the Aspen Center of Contemporary Art?

Jun 12, 2024 | theaspenlocal.com | Andrew Travers

Excitement was cracklingin Ann Mullins’ voice when she called me last winter and asked: “Have you ever heard of something called the Aspen Center of Contemporary Art?”Mullins—the landscape architect, former Aspen City Council member, authority on and champion of local design history—had in the course of a research project come upon a cache of documents related to this local institution from the late 1960s that she had never heard of.
The Music Fest Turns 75 and These Two Veterans Look Back

Jun 12, 2024 | theaspenlocal.com | Andrew Travers

SHARON ISBINSharon Isbin has recorded with Joan Baez and collaborated with Sting, she’s won Grammys and performed for the Obamas at the White House. She’s released 35 albums and soloed with 200 orchestras. For the world’s preeminent living classical guitarist, Aspen has played a critical role in that success since she first arrived from Minnesota as a precocious 15-year-old in 1972. “I was awestruck by the mountains,” Isbin recalls of her first summers here.
Triumphs and tragedy of Aspen ski legend Spider Sabich set for Amy Redford-directed documentary

Mar 13, 2024 | coloradosun.com | Andrew Travers

For most people around the world who know it, the name Spider Sabich conjures images of ski country’s most lurid true crime tale, set in the decadent Aspen of the 1970s, in which he — the dashing young ski champion — is shot dead by his starlet girlfriend. His accomplishments as an athlete, his groundbreaking efforts for ski racers to make a living, and the beloved 31-year-old human who died on March 21, 1976, have been largely lost to history.
The recycling symbol’s roots

Mar 12, 2024 | aspendailynews.com | Andrew Travers

Editor’s note: This story is provided by Aspen Journalism, a nonprofit, investigative news organization. For more,visit aspenjournalism.org. As a shy and bearded young architecture student at the University of Southern California in the spring of 1970, Gary Anderson happened upon a flyer advertising a graphic-design contest. It called for students to create a symbol to promote the recycling of paper products, with a winner to be selected at that summer’s International Design Conference at Aspen.
The recycling symbol’s Aspen roots

Mar 12, 2024 | aspenjournalism.org | Andrew Travers |Curtis Wackerle

As a shy and bearded young architecture student at the University of Southern California in the spring of 1970, Gary Anderson happened upon a flyer advertising a graphic-design contest. It called for students to create a symbol to promote the recycling of paper products, with a winner to be selected at that summer’s International Design Conference at Aspen. The winning black-ink icon that Anderson created featured a series of folded arrows chasing one another in a triangle.
The recycling symbol’s Aspen roots

Mar 12, 2024 | l8r.it | Andrew Travers |Curtis Wackerle

As a shy and bearded young architecture student at the University of Southern California in the spring of 1970, Gary Anderson happened upon a flyer advertising a graphic-design contest. It called for students to create a symbol to promote the recycling of paper products, with a winner to be selected at that summer’s International Design Conference at Aspen. The winning black-ink icon that Anderson created featured a series of folded arrows chasing one another in a triangle.