Pop art is most closely associated with the United States: its most famous practitioners, including Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol, were American, and the movement flourished in New York and along the East Coast. But it was a Brit who brought Pop to US audiences. Shortly after becoming a curator at the Guggenheim in 1962, the London-born Lawrence Alloway staged ‘Six Painters and the Object’, which highlighted work by Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, James Rosenquist and Jim Dine as well as Warhol and Lichtenstein. It was the first Pop exhibition in New York and the first milestone in the Guggenheim’s decades-long relationship with the movement. The Guggenheim now presents works from its collection that bottle the excitement of Pop art in the 1960s, while exploring its influence on contemporary artists such as Maurizio Cattelan, Alex Da Corte and Yayoi Kusama, whose Infinity Mirrored Room: Dancing Lights that Flew Up to the Universe (2019) is one of few loans on show (5 June–10 January 2027).
Find out more from the Guggenheim’s website.
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