5 June 2026 — 10 January 2027

Guggenheim Pop: 1960 to Now

Guggenheim Pop: 1960 to Now brings together an eclectic selection of major works from the museum's collection by twenty-nine artists, among them John Chamberlain, Chryssa, Jim Dine, Richard Hamilton, Yayoi Kusama, Roy Lichtenstein, Marta Minujín, Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, Lucas Samaras, and Andy Warhol. These are shown alongside recently acquired contemporary works by Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim, Farah Al Qasimi, Maurizio Cattelan, Alex Da Corte, Daniel Gordon, Douglas Gordon, Martine Gutierrez, Lauren Halsey, Lucia Hierro, Yee I-Lann, Annette Kelm, Tommy Kha, Baseera Khan, Shinro Ohtake, Wendy Red Star, Cara Romero, Liu Shiyuan, and Sheida Soleimani. The exhibition brings to light a lesser-known chapter in the museum's history: the role of the British curator and critic Lawrence Alloway, who introduced Pop art to American audiences with the 1963 Guggenheim exhibition Six Painters and the Object, the first museum presentation of Pop art in New York. Historical works trace the emergence of Pop in the early 1960s, as artists turned to advertising techniques, reproduction, and mass media and redrew the boundaries of what art could be. Contemporary artists and recent acquisitions engage with, and offer critical perspectives on, the visual forms and language of popular culture. Extending the movement's legacy, their practices explore representations of identity, internet culture, and everyday life. Highlights include Maurizio Cattelan's Comedian (2019); Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen's Soft Shuttlecock (1995), on view in New York for the first time in twenty-five years; Yayoi Kusama's INFINITY MIRRORED ROOM – DANCING LIGHTS THAT FLEW UP TO THE UNIVERSE (2019), a major loan to the exhibition; and Alex Da Corte's ROY G BIV (2022), a video installation accompanied by recurring live performances. Bringing historical and contemporary perspectives together, the exhibition shows how Pop renders the familiar strange, elevates the commercial to the sacred, and transforms the banal into the spectacular. The exhibition is organized by Lauren Hinkson, Curator, Collections, with Victoria Horrocks, Curatorial Fellow, Photography, and Faith Hunter, Curatorial Assistant.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum