Sinister Pop

New York City

Whitney’s current exhibition Sinister Pop presents an inventive take on the museum’s rich and diverse holdings of Pop art from the movement’s inception in the early 1960s through its aftershocks a decade later.

Although Pop art often calls to mind a celebration of postwar consumer culture, this exhibition focuses on Pop’s darker side, as it distorts and critiques the American dream. Themes of exaggerated consumption, film noir and the depiction of women in art, the dystopic American landscape, and the intersection of popular culture and politics, are explored through works by acknowledged masters such as Jasper Johns, Claes Oldenburg, Ed Ruscha, and Andy Warhol, as well as by many artists not traditionally associated with Pop whose art may be understood within its wider field of reference. These include William Eggleston, Peter Saul, Christina Ramberg, and Vija Celmins, among others.

Whitney Museum of American Art

November 15th, 2012 – March 31st, 2012
945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street
New York, NY 10021
USA

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