The often-criticised pop artist is the focus of a monumental new survey including rarely seen pieces and ambitious new restagings at New York\u2019s Whitney Museum <\/p>\n
When the American artist Roy Lichtenstein created his monumental Greene Street Mural<\/a> in 1983, he took inspiration from the Bayeux tapestry for its serial storytelling technique. But whereas the embroidery depicting the Norman conquest continues to delight after nearly 1,000 years, Lichtenstein\u2019s site-specific mural was destroyed after six weeks, in accordance with his wishes.<\/p>\n More than four decades later, however, the monumental Greene Street Mural is to mesmerise art lovers once more. This week a 96ft (29-metre) recreation of the work will span the entire entryway to Roy Lichtenstein: Like New<\/a>, the first major New York retrospective of the pop artist\u2019s work in 33 years, at the Whitney Museum of American Art.<\/p>\n
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