Aspen Daily News: A Story of Two Johns: Powers Art Center Opens in Carbondale
The smell of fresh-cut hay fills the air and a sprinkler softly taps in the background. Mount Sopris basks across the valley. It’s a quiet Monday morning, and the air is so still that the water in a nearby pool is flat, making the sky’s reflection a cobalt blue.
With only two cars in the parking lot, the serenity is unexpected when in just an hour, the Powers Art Center will open its doors to the largest exclusively Jasper Johns collection in the country for the first time.
“Everyone says, ‘Why is this here?,’” says Melissa English, director for the Powers Art Center. “Well it’s here because he just loved the land.”