Aspen Public Radio: “American Pop Art” exhibit gives Powers Art Center visitors a wide-angle view of the movement
About a quarter of a mile up a winding road off of Highway 82, tucked into a grassy hillside just upvalley from Carbondale, the stark modern architecture of the Powers Art Center doesn’t quite look like what you’d expect in the middle of a rural landscape with a sweeping view Mount Sopris.
Neither does the collection inside, where works by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Robert Rauschenberg hang on the walls, part of a new exhibit on “American Pop Art” that opened earlier this winter.
“It truly is pretty, pretty wild to have this museum literally in a cow pasture and feel like you're walking into the MoMA,” said Sonya Taylor Moore, the director of programming and outreach at the center.