Roy Lichtenstein retrospective opens at Whitney Museum

A major retrospective of Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein has opened at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. The exhibition highlights the artist's meticulous process, showcasing how he utilized hand-painted Ben-Day dots and re-engineered source materials through sketches and preliminary drawings to create his signature style.

The show recreates Lichtenstein's breakthrough 1962 solo exhibition at the Leo Castelli Gallery. Critics have noted the exhibition's relevance in the current era of AI-generated imagery, emphasizing Lichtenstein's insistence on singular human vision and the manual reworking of mass-market imagery.