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Whitney survey revisits Roy Lichtenstein’s art and influences
The Whitney Museum in New York is showing the first major Roy Lichtenstein survey in more than 30 years.
The exhibition, titled “Roy Lichtenstein: Like New,” includes more than 130 paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints.
It explores how Lichtenstein learned to see through exercises developed by his teacher, Hoyt Sherman, at Ohio State University.
One gallery recreates a Sherman “Flash Lab,” where students briefly viewed objects in a dark room and then drew them.
Artist and co-curator Alex Da Corte also recreated murals and a billboard by Lichtenstein.
The reviewer argues that these playful elements muddy the picture of Lichtenstein’s art, which drew on comic strips, advertisements and other artists’ work.
The show offers visitors a new chance to consider his work, though the review questions whether its charm still holds.
The Whitney Museum is showing Roy Lichtenstein: Like New, the first major survey of his work in more than 30 years.
The exhibition includes more than 130 paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints, and explores sources behind many of them.
Lichtenstein credited his teacher Hoyt Sherman with teaching him how to see through experimental drawing exercises.
The exhibition recreates a darkened-room “Flash Lab” and four murals, including a nearly 100-foot-long work.
A Hyperallergic review says playful additions to the exhibition complicate its presentation of Lichtenstein’s art and legacy.
- Who
- Roy Lichtenstein, whose work is featured in the survey. Alex Da Corte is one of the exhibition’s curators.
- What
- The Whitney Museum is presenting Roy Lichtenstein: Like New, a major survey of his work.
- When
- The exhibition was on view when the review was published on October 13, 2026. The exhibition dates are not stated.
- Where
- The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.
- Why
- The exhibition revisits Lichtenstein’s work and the sources behind many of his works.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
After becoming successful, Lichtenstein endowed the Hoyt L. Sherman Studio Art Center at Ohio State University.
Hyperallergic published its review of the exhibition at the Whitney Museum.
- Works in survey
- More than 130 paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints
- Lichtenstein survey
- First major survey of his work in more than 30 years
- Hoyt Sherman
- Lichtenstein’s teacher at Ohio State University
- Greene Street Mural
- Nearly 100 feet (about 30.5 metres) long
- Recreated murals
- Four
What people are saying
I was not initially disappointed.
Perhaps they didn’t want us to think too long about what happens when charm loses its allure.
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