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Daniel Belasco and Scott Rothkopf on Roy Lichtenstein
Moderated by Alison McDonald
Monday, September 18, 2023, 6:30pm
Art Students League of New York
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Join Gagosian and the Art Students League of New York for a conversation on Roy Lichtenstein with Daniel Belasco, executive director of Al Held Foundation, and Scott Rothkopf, senior deputy director and chief curator of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Organized in celebration of the centenary of the artist’s birth and moderated by Alison McDonald, chief creative officer at Gagosian, the discussion will highlight multiple perspectives on Lichtenstein’s decades-long career, during which he helped originate the Pop art movement. The talk coincides with Lichtenstein Remembered, an exhibition of sculptures and studies curated by Irving Blum at Gagosian, 980 Madison Avenue, New York, on view through October 21.
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Roy Lichtenstein, Coup de Chapeau I, 1996 © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein. Photo: Rob McKeever
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