Anderson Ranch, at Sixty, Still Feels Like Someplace You'd Want an Invitation To

The arts center in Snowmass Village, Colorado, marked its sixtieth anniversary this year, and by outside account, it has aged into a place the art world takes seriously without losing what makes it distinctive. One curator, describing the atmosphere at the Ranch, called it something close to a "Utopian summer-camp vibe" — offered less as a criticism than as a plain read on how the campus feels to those who spend time there. Six decades in, that informality hasn't given way to anything stiffer; the Ranch's standing has simply grown up around it. It is, by sixty, a rarer thing than either label alone suggests: a serious institution that never stopped feeling like a place people are glad to be let into.

With reporting from ARTnews.