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Whitney retrospective revisits Roy Lichtenstein’s work and influences
The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York is opening its first major retrospective of Roy Lichtenstein in 33 years.
The exhibition, titled “Roy Lichtenstein: Like New,” includes more than 130 works from across six decades.
A 96-foot recreation of his 1983 Greene Street Mural will span the museum’s entryway; the original was destroyed after six weeks, as Lichtenstein had wished.
The show also explores the influence of Hoyt Sherman, Lichtenstein’s teacher at Ohio State University in the 1940s.
Sherman used dark classrooms and brief flashes of images to train students in visual perception and memory.
The curators say this background helps show Lichtenstein as more than an artist who borrowed images from comics and consumer culture.
The exhibition brings together an in-house curator and contemporary artist to offer a fresh view of his work.
The Whitney Museum of American Art is presenting Roy Lichtenstein: Like New, the first major New York retrospective of the artist’s work in 33 years.
The exhibition includes more than 130 works spanning six decades, from early studies to unfinished canvases.
It examines the influence of Lichtenstein’s former teacher, Hoyt Sherman, whose teaching methods focused on optics and visual perception.
A 96-foot recreation of Lichtenstein’s Greene Street Mural spans the exhibition’s entryway.
The original mural was created in 1983 and destroyed after six weeks in accordance with Lichtenstein’s wishes.
- Who
- The Whitney Museum of American Art is presenting the retrospective. It was conceived by curator Meg Onli and artist and guest curator Alex Da Corte.
- What
- Roy Lichtenstein: Like New is a retrospective of Lichtenstein’s work and influences.
- When
- The exhibition opens this week, according to the article published on 11 October 2026.
- Where
- The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.
- Why
- The exhibition revisits Lichtenstein’s work and explores the influence of his teacher, Hoyt Sherman.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
He was very interested in the Bayeux tapestry.
What could be discovered? What is new there?
Hoyt Sherman’s teaching methods were eccentric and not to be overlooked.
Lichtenstein studied under Hoyt Sherman at Ohio State University.
Lichtenstein’s work was first featured in a Whitney annual exhibition.
Lichtenstein created the Greene Street Mural, which was destroyed after six weeks in accordance with his wishes.
Lichtenstein died, leaving unfinished canvases in his studio.
The Whitney Museum’s retrospective opens, featuring a 96-foot recreation of the Greene Street Mural.
- Exhibition
- Roy Lichtenstein: Like New
- Venue
- Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
- Works
- More than 130
- Recreated mural
- 96 feet (29 metres)
- Original mural
- Created in 1983; destroyed after six weeks
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