Guggenheim Pop: 1960 to Now

"Guggenheim Pop: 1960 to Now" on view at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York spread across the Thannhauser and Tower galleries. It opened in two phases: works from the 1960s through the 1990s The show traces the museum's own history with Pop art back to British curator Lawrence Alloway, who curated at the Guggenheim from 1962 to 1966 and organized "Six Painters and the Object" in 1963, the first Pop art exhibition staged in a New York museum. The exhibition draws entirely from the Guggenheim's own holdings, pairing historic works by John Chamberlain, Chryssa, Jim Dine, Richard Hamilton, Yayoi Kusama, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Lucas Samaras, and Andy Warhol with recent acquisitions from contemporary artists such as Maurizio Cattelan, Alex Da Corte, Martine Gutierrez, Lauren Halsey, Lucia Hierro, and Cara Romero, among others. Standout pieces include Cattelan's "Comedian" (2019) and Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen's "Soft Shuttlecock" (1995), on view in New York for the first time in 25 years, plus Alex Da Corte's "Roy G Biv" (2022), a video installation with recurring live performances. Curator Lauren Hinkson has framed the show as tracing how Pop functions as an ongoing artistic strategy rather than a closed historical chapter, showing how it "continues to inspire, provoke, and evolve" in the hands of artists working today.