2025 has been my year of high-altitude art. This summer I went to New Mexico for the relaunch of the Site Santa Fe International, then to Colorado for the Aspen Art Museum’s inaugural AIR Festival. Having been raised in Florida and based in New York for the last 15 years, my body struggled to acclimate during these short press trips. But when I was invited to visit Eden, Utah’s Powder Mountain , a “skiable outdoor art museum” with a base elevation just shy of 7,000 feet and a summit elevation of nearly 9,500 feet, the chance to explore Utah’s storied, 12,000-acre ski resort—and its headline-making, art-centric transformation—seemed too good to pass up.

A former sheep herding range, Powder Mountain became a ski resort in 1972. A bit off the beaten path (compared to Snowbird and Alta, two

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