Roy Lichtenstein: Like New
Roy Lichtenstein: Like New
Roy Lichtenstein, Girl in Window (Study for World's Fair Mural), 1963. Oil and acrylic on canvas, 68 1/8 × 56 in. (173 × 142.2 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of The American Contemporary Art Foundation, Inc., Leonard A. Lauder, President 2002.254. © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein
Opens Oct 2026
Roy Lichtenstein changed the way we see images. One of the defining artists of the Pop art movement, he turned the visual language of mass culture, comics, advertising, consumer goods, and commercial printing, into some of the most recognizable images of the twentieth century. His work looked cool, crisp, and machine-made, but was meticulously handmade, revealing an artist fascinated by how images are built, copied, enlarged, circulated, and made new.
Roy Lichtenstein: Like New offers a bold reconsideration of Lichtenstein for the present. Bringing together roughly 130 works made from the early 1940s through the 1990s, the exhibition traces how his early interest in perception and visual recognition shaped a career-long investigation into duplication, simulation, and image culture. Across painting, drawing, collage, prints, sculpture, and film, Lichtenstein treated images as unstable forms that could be borrowed, translated, reframed, and transformed.
The exhibition features many of Lichtenstein’s most celebrated works, including Look Mickey (1961), Girl with Ball (1961), Masterpiece (1962), Drowning Girl (1963), Happy Tears (1964), Little Big Painting (1965), Rouen Cathedral, Set III (1968-69), and Artist’s Studio “The Dance” (1974). It also includes a recreation of three murals, including a nearly 96-foot long iteration of Greene Street Mural (1983). Roy Lichtenstein: Like New also reunites, for the first time, all the works from Lichtenstein’s first exhibition of Pop-style work at Leo Castelli Gallery in 1962. This pivotal moment for the artist would come to define an era with its impact extended far beyond Pop, shaping generations of artists, including Louise Lawler, Richard Pettibone, and Sturtevant whose work will also be on view in this exhibition and further illuminate Lichtenstein’s relationship to copying, influence, appropriation, and the afterlife of images.
In an era when pictures are endlessly cropped, filtered, reposted, and recirculated, Lichtenstein’s work feels newly urgent. Like New looks beyond the artist’s iconic surfaces to reveal the power and instability of images and celebrate an artist who understood, long before the digital age, that images change as they move through the world.
Roy Lichtenstein: Like New is organized by Meg Onli, Nancy and Fred Poses Curator, and Alex Da Corte, Guest Curator, with Nakai Falcón, Curatorial Assistant, and David Crane, Curatorial Research Associate.
Leadership support for Roy Lichtenstein: Like New is provided by the Jerome L. Greene Foundation, Kenneth C. Griffin and Griffin Catalyst, and Susan and John Hess.
Susan and John Hess
Major corporate support is provided by
Principal support is provided by Pete and Michelle Scantland; and Caroline and Robert Taubman, on behalf of the A. Alfred Taubman Foundation.
Additional corporate support is provided by
Major support is provided by Judy Hart Angelo; Barbara Haskell American Fellows Legacy Fund; Jill and Darius Bikoff; Neil G. Bluhm and Kimberly Paige Bluhm; Jenny Brorsen and Rich DeMartini; Nancy Carrington Crown & A. Steven Crown; Lise and Michael Evans; Meg and Bennett Goodman; CJ Jones & Philip Rebeiz, Colour Themes; The KHR McNeely Family Foundation | Kevin, Rosemary, and Hannah Rose McNeely; Sara and Kip Kirkpatrick; Michael A. Klump; Northern Trust; Nancy and Fred Poses; Anne-Cecilie Engell Speyer and Rob Speyer; and the Whitney’s National Committee.
Significant support is provided by The Fuhrman Family Foundation, Jackson Tang, and an anonymous donor.
Generous support is provided by the AG Foundation, Salvador Espinoza and Jonathan Rozoff, the Keith Haring Exhibition Fund, Thomas & Linda Koehn Foundation, Susan and Larry Marx, Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker, Susanne and William E. Pritchard III, Katherine Sachs, and an anonymous donor.
Additional support is provided by Dawn and David Lenhardt.
This exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.
Leadership support for the catalogue and education and public programs is provided by the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation.
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