The Whitney Museum of American Art is in full celebration mode. This week the museum kicked off the opening festivities for Roy Lichtenstein: Like New, the major new exhibition dedicated to one of Pop art’s defining figures, with an intimate supporters’ dinner on October 6 and a vibrant opening party on October 7 — just days before the show opens to the public on October 11.
Co-curated by Meg Onli and artist Alex Da Corte, Like New brings together roughly 130 works spanning the early 1940s through the 1990s, tracing how Lichtenstein turned the visual language of comics, advertising, and commercial printing into some of the most recognizable images of the twentieth century.
Visitors will find beloved icons such as Look Mickey (1961), Girl with Ball (1961), Masterpiece (1962), Drowning Girl (1963), and Happy Tears (1964), alongside a spectacular recreation of three murals — including a nearly 96-foot-long iteration of the Greene Street Mural (1983). For the first time ever, the exhibition also reunites every work from Lichtenstein’s legendary 1962 debut of Pop-style painting at the Leo Castelli Gallery, the moment that defined an era.
With music, art lovers, and special guests filling the museum’s halls, the celebration marks a joyful start to one of the fall’s most anticipated art moments in New York City. Roy Lichtenstein: Like New is on view at the Whitney starting October 11.
Photo: Yvonne Tnt & Jason Lowrie / BFA.com, courtesy of the Whitney
