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What we look at, listen to, eat, drink, talk about, how we socialize, and travel. ABOUT ME:
Specializing in connecting brands and people, Janet O'Grady is a seasoned journalist, editor, and entrepreneur with a proven track record of curating lifestyle and luxury for discerning audiences. Originally from the East Coast, she had a dream to live in the mountains—and in 1987, she turned her dream into

reality when she founded Aspen Magazine. Janet grew the title into a recognizable brand and created a powerful hybrid of local and global content, selling it in 2012. In her free time, Janet is an accomplished skier, bicyclist, and hiker. She's also worked with numerous non-profits in Aspen.

04/10/2024

Loved writing for the beautiful Centurion Magazine's global readership this Best of the Best of California’s Napa and Sonoma valleys…from Michelin-starred and fab casual restaurants, award-winning wines, luxurious hotels, stunning scenery: one of my favorite places in the world...

26/08/2024

Up on the Roof: last weeks to explore the views via sculpture....

25/08/2024

Love this Andy Goldsworthy's serpentine "Stone River," created with sandstone from areas of conflict around the world to make a wall of unity, a favorite Land Art Work of mine on the grounds of The Aspen Meadows...

I always thought with all of Aspen's open space and wealth, the town should be one big outdoor sculpture park, right?

25/08/2024

Aspen Rituals
Amidst the clinking of forks and knives the other night, suddenly the room emptied--as just about everyone jolted outdoors on the deck to watch the drama: the sky flaming orange, after a day of rain and clouds.

That’s a ritual at West End Social, the new restaurant at the Aspen Meadows, with some the best views in Aspen.

And some of the most sophisticated delicious dishes in town. Kudos to Chef Rachel Saxton who sources the best Colorado products and ingredients from local farmers and foragers, offering shareable plates of homemade potato chips and crispy shoe string fries to entrees of Colorado lamb…….

20/08/2024

This week's office views, working remotely....

11/08/2024

One of my favorite views ——from my recent family visit to Chicago. Looking out the window from what could be one of the best Club floors on the planet, at what is now one of my favorite hotels, the Langham. In a landmark riverfront location, the hotel occupies the ground through 13th floors of the I.B.M. Building, now AMA Plaza, the sleek, black 1973 skyscraper that was one of Mies van der Rohe’’s last projects. And the river walk was right outside my door, with lovely gardens, docks for boat cruises, and outdoor restaurants...

26/04/2024

What a cool movie theatre 💓!

The San Luis Obispo International Film Festival just kicked off …a gem of a festival for film lovers who’d much rather watch an interesting mix of indie movies, than just spot celebrities…

24/08/2023

Just published new story in on the newly renovated (and renamed) landmark hotel, in one of my favorite places,
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19/08/2023

Want to go to Japan, one of this year’s hottest destinations? You’re not alone...

I enjoyed reporting on/writing this assignment for , with suggestions from three Asian travel experts on how two determined first-time travelers can visit and experience authentic Japan when it’s teeming with tourists, prices are surging, and choice accommodations and restaurant reservations are booked far out...
online this week and in print this weekend

I'll be returning to Japan this October-- I've never been there during autumn-- so excited!...and look forward to writing more stories, especially on design and food and wellness+...

15/08/2023

What a fun and delicious night--a clambake dinner--at the chic Caribou Club--the best food in town .... with wonderful friends...Richard, Kevin, Billy, and Isabelle...

12/08/2023

At one of my Aspen Happy Places, The Hotel Jerome...❤️ its Garden outdoor restaurant, one of my favorites for lunch and dinner...with gorgeous views of Aspen Mountain...and a lunchtime special menu this weekend from ....we're Happy....

28/06/2023

Coffee in a sun dappled corner of the new Sant Ambroeus--one of my favorite NYC spots--now in downtown Aspen....love the corduroy covered squishy couches and stools in forest green and mustard...delicious coffee, food, and, of course great people watching...

27/06/2023

Perfect Bluebird Aspen Summer Day...
66 degrees with a breeze at noon

10/05/2023

A tour de force...last week visited impressive retrospective celebrating in 100 images the enormous talent and career of American icon--pre-eminent fashion photographer and famous photographic portraitist--Richard Avedon--on the 100th anniversary of his birth.

Interesting to see which image was selected as a favorite by boldfaced names, from Elton John to Cindy Crawford to Spike Lee +. Many of the these notables invited to help curate the show – particularly those from the fashion world – ended up selecting images of themselves. Like Tom Ford, looking gregarious and confident (As did Hilary Clinton--a smiling portrait I had never see before)

Avedon created monumental--life-size or larger--prints, making for a bold encounter between viewer and art. He was also monumental for his range –from the powerful and famous to unknown everyday persons; from heads of state to celebrities to artists, musicians, writers, super models, and even a beekeeper.

I've seen shows over the years. But this range in one space was 💯 ....

26/04/2023

Years ago I co-founded a print magazine, and for many years this image from our personal collection had a place on the walls of our little office in a little ski town...

I still love newsstands, a dying breed in New York City: imagine, there were once more than 1,500 sidewalk stands in the five boroughs of New York City during the 1950s, but only 300—or fewer— remain today. And the magazines on sale in this photograph? Gone...

If you love photography, and New York City-- or both--don't miss the Met's New York Album, selections from a one-of-a-kind unbound album of photographs of New York City, created by one of my artist heroes, American photographer Berenice Abbott (1898–1991). (Thru September 4)

Abbott captured New York in small, black-and-white images--with 266 on view-- a “kind of photographic sketchbook"

Fascinating too are photographs included in the exhibit from The Met collection of Paris streets by Eugène Atget, whose archive Abbott purchased and promoted; views of New York by her contemporaries Walker Evans and Margaret Bourke-White; and selections from Abbott’s grand documentary project, Changing New York (1935–39)

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25/04/2023

O’Keeffe wanted to paint nakedness: “I couldn’t get what I wanted any other way, so I’ve been painting myself —no clothes—It was lots of fun,” the artist wrote to Alfred Stieglitz in July 1917, about these watercolors where she is both artist and model--sort of a selfie....

The show provides a glimpse of the artist’s materials and compositional choices, while inviting the viewer to slow down and really look….

25/04/2023

“Georgia O’Keeffe: To See Takes Time,” a visual pleasure at MOMA. On view are the American modernist’s rarely seen works on paper--in charcoal, pastel, watercolor, and graphite, along with some of her better known paintings....

17/03/2023

In celebration of World Sleep Day today

Man Ray’s Sleeping Woman, 1929

16/03/2023

BERENICE ABBOTT | NEW YORK AT NIGHT

11/03/2023

Love Peter Doig's work, especially his snow paintings, such as the solitary skier in the harlequin suit, The Alpinist, in the new Doig exhibit at --on my London List..

05/03/2023

More... sculptures from magical New Museum exhibit of work by Wangechi Mutu, a Kenyan-born American multi -media artist...

05/03/2023

Yesterday afternoon at The New Museum, new exhibit of works by Wangechi Mutu, a Kenyan-born American multi -media artist...known for her otherworldly works combining mythical and folkloric narratives with sociohistorical nods, and leitmotifs like masked women and snake-like tendrils... complex collages that make the eye and mind travel...eye grabbing sculptures that intertwine human and animal, female and male... so much to see and think about in this exhibit ...

"Wangechi Mutu:Intertwined"

10/02/2023

Great visit to Luma Westbau this morning. Did an interesting walk with artist Julien Creuzet through his new exhibition, opening tonight. The ideas were conceived during the artist's residency at Luma Arles (France).

The exhibit really engaged me--my mind, my senses--with how it combines sculpture, sound, filmmaking, language, poetry, mythology, movement and performance...inspired by Afro-Carribean and Creole influences---the artist wants you to experience a genuine encounter with his art...

In December Creuzet was selected to represent France at the 2024 Venice Art Biennale. Looking forward...

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07/02/2023

I love the Outsiders Art Fair in NYC ( and Paris). So I found it fascinating to visit the Collection de l'Art Brut today, and hear the stories--some heart wrenching m--behind the intriguing art on view. The term art brut — literally “raw art,” coined by the French artist Jean Dubuffet in the 1940s —refers to works by often isolated individuals who created their distinctive art primarily for themselves; persons usually on the margins of mainstream culture and society; persons who have experienced trauma, or been diagnosed with mental illness.... such pathos behind much of the imagery...such amazing stories... such amazing images....

05/02/2023

With Serge Attukwei Clottey and ... Before Serge's performance.... "Lost and Found," 2023, curated by and ,

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