09/22/2026
"The Powers: A Life in Art", directed by Tyler Oliver, will make its New York premiere at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) on Tuesday, September 29. The film features Larry Poons and Christo, whose works are also included in "MATERIALITY", currently on view at Hexton Gallery.
Long before Pop Art had a name or a market, John and Kimiko Powers were among the first to believe in it, drawn less to the work as commodity than to the artists themselves. Confidants to Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, Claes Oldenburg, and others, they helped shape an era while remaining, by choice, just outside the spotlight.
Woven from personal archives and never-before-seen conversations with the artists themselves, the documentary film "The Powers: A Life in Art" offers an intimate account of two collectors whose relationships with the artists they championed were as important as the works they acquired. As the art world hardened into market and status, the Powers held to a different standard, rooted in beauty, wonder, and human connection, and in the conviction that collecting, at its best, is an act of friendship.
Image 1: ©️ 1989 Sidney B. Felsen
