In 1994, Roy Lichtenstein was approached by an elite yacht racing syndicate from Maine to design the hull and spinnaker of their vessel for the 1995 America’s Cup—the most prestigious sailing race in ...
Recognized for his masterful ability to turn comic strip aesthetics into high art, Roy Lichtenstein (1923–1997) was a pioneering force in Pop art, along with peers like James Rosenquist, Andy Warhol, ...
Visitors at the Roy Lichtenstein retrospective at the Art Institute of Chicago (all installation photos by the author for Hyperallergic) CHICAGO — The Roy Lichtenstein exhibition at the Art Institute ...
One clue in the show is that just before he made the rag-painted abstractions, Lichtenstein made a series of drawings that combined free-flowing Abstract-Expressionist gestures with images of Bugs ...
Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein’s work is instantly recognizable: the giant, colorful canvases; the Ben-Day dots; the distinctively comic book-inspired images. That last element has caused controversy ...
Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein (1923 - 1997) is pictured in 1962 in one of his earlier studios. Ben Martin/Getty Images This home was a work of art. Legendary pop artist Roy Lichtenstein’s studio, where ...
When George Washington crossed the Delaware River to ambush enemy soldiers in the Battle of Trenton, nobody was on hand to portray his masterful tactical maneuver. The famous depiction hanging in the ...
The gift’s promise lies not just in its scale and Lichtenstein’s outsize place in 20th-century art, but in the fact that much of the materials will be searchable ...
Though he was the grandson of German-Jewish immigrants. Roy Lichtenstein played down his roots. But as a new exhibition at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles suggests, Lichtenstein’s ...
Agnes Gund owned the beloved artwork for 41 years. Its proceeds helped her fund criminal justice reform. By Elizabeth Alexander In a single week, collectors spent $2.2 billion on art at New York’s ...
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