ROY LICHTENSTEIN

Born in 1923, Lichtenstein spent most of his life in New York and Southampton, where he sustained a continually evolving practice until his death in 1997 at the age of seventy-three. Titled after a 1962 work, Roy Lichtenstein: Like New features many of the artist’s most iconic paintings alongside lesser-known works and four re-created murals. The first New York retrospective of his work since 1993, it traces Lichtenstein’s fascination with perception across six decades of painting, drawing, sculpture, film, and prints.

In an era when pictures are endlessly generated, copied, altered, filtered, and reposted across screens, Lichtenstein’s art is strikingly prescient and remarkably relevant. He understood long before the digital age that images are never stable: they move through the world and return transformed. With each iteration, they are made like new.

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.