Roy Lichtenstein: Like New at the Whitney Museum of American Art

The Whitney Museum of American Art is presenting Roy Lichtenstein: Like New on its fifth floor, with the show open from October 11, 2026 through May 10, 2027. Named after a 1962 work, it is the first New York retrospective of the artist since 1993.

Lichtenstein was born in 1923, lived mostly in New York and Southampton, and died in 1997 at age seventy-three. His early-1960s Pop paintings took their imagery from comic books and newspapers. He reworked each composition, enlarged it and transferred it to canvas, imitating the bold black outlines, flat bright colors and dot fields of commercial printing. The results look cool and mechanical, yet every mark is made by hand. The exhibition follows his fascination with perception across six decades of painting, drawing, sculpture, film and prints.

Visitors will find many of his best-known paintings alongside lesser-known pieces and four re-created murals. The curators frame his work as strikingly relevant to an era when images are constantly copied, altered, filtered and reposted: pictures move through the world and come back transformed, made "like new." The show is organized by Meg Onli and guest curator Alex Da Corte, with Nakai Falcón and David Crane.

Related programming includes Member Mornings on Saturday, October 17 at 9:30 am, a Pop Party on Wednesday, October 28 from 7 to 10 pm, and a Walter Annenberg Lecture by Alex Da Corte on Thursday, October 29 at 6:30 pm. In the shop, a catalogue designed by Irma Boom is on sale, as is an 18-piece Gap–Lichtenstein–Whitney collection of clothing and accessories, including a red-and-blue dotted sherpa fleece inspired by Cathedral #2.

Da Corte's own show, Hot Dog With Ketchup, also runs through May 10, 2027. Advance tickets are recommended through the museum's website.