The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is turning up the fun this fall with Guggenheim Pop: 1960 to Now, a joyful exhibition that traces six playful decades of Pop art, on view through January 10, 2027.
The show brings together 29 artists who turned soup cans, comic strips, and everyday objects into fine art. Visitors will find beloved masters from the Guggenheim’s own collection, including Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Yayoi Kusama, Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, Jim Dine, Richard Hamilton, and Marta Minujín, in conversation with a new generation of contemporary artists reimagining Pop for today.
The highlights are irresistible: Maurizio Cattelan’s famous banana-and-duct-tape Comedian (2019), Oldenburg and van Bruggen’s giant floppy Soft Shuttlecock (1995), seen in New York for the first time in 25 years, and a major loan of Kusama’s dazzling INFINITY MIRRORED ROOM – DANCING LIGHTS THAT FLEW UP TO THE UNIVERSE (2019). Alex Da Corte’s rainbow-hued video installation ROY G BIV (2022) adds live performances to the mix.
The exhibition also celebrates a wonderful piece of New York history: in 1963 the Guggenheim hosted Six Painters and the Object, the very first museum presentation of Pop art in New York, introducing the movement to American audiences.
Organized by curator Lauren Hinkson, Guggenheim Pop: 1960 to Now shows how Pop made the familiar strange, the commercial sacred, and the everyday spectacular. A perfect family outing at 1071 Fifth Avenue, on the Upper East Side.
Photo: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
