A recreation of Roy Lichtenstein's monumental Greene Street Mural will span the entire entryway to a new retrospective opening this week at New York's Whitney Museum of American Art. The 96-foot mural is a recreation of a site-specific work Lichtenstein created in 1983, which was destroyed after six weeks per his instructions.
The show, titled "Roy Lichtenstein: Like New," marks the first major New York retrospective of the pop artist's work in 33 years. The exhibition features rarely seen pieces and ambitious new restagings.
Lichtenstein created the original Greene Street Mural using serial storytelling techniques inspired by the Bayeux tapestry. The 1983 work was temporary by design. The new recreation allows audiences to experience the monumental work decades later.
The exhibition opens at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York this week.