The Dallas Museum of Art and the Nasher Sculpture Center will present works from the joint acquisition of over 50 artworks generously gifted by the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation in 2024, showing prints, drawings, and sculptures by the groundbreaking American artist at the two neighboring institutions in the Dallas Arts District. The installations are organized by the Nasher Sculpture Center’s Senior Curator Dr. Catherine Craft, The Nancy and Tim Hanley Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at the DMA Ade Omotosho, and The Allen and Kelli Questrom Assistant Curator of Prints and Drawings at the DMA Dr. Emily Friedman. It will be on view from January 31 to August 16, 2026, at the Nasher and from January 15 to July 5, 2026, at the DMA.
In conjunction with the installations, the DMA and Nasher Sculpture Center are pleased to present Lichtenstein Through a Contemporary Lens with artist Alex Da Corte and Nasher Sculpture Center Director Carlos Basualdo.
Lichtenstein Through a Contemporary Lens: Artist Alex Da Corte with Carlos Basualdo
In conversation with Nasher Sculpture Center Director Carlos Basualdo, artist Alex Da Corte will reflect on how his engagement with popular imagery and contemporary visual culture informs his curatorial approach to the Whitney’s forthcoming Roy Lichtenstein retrospective. Drawing on his interest in reanimating cultural icons and blurring the boundaries between high and low culture, Da Corte offers fresh insight into Lichtenstein’s enduring relevance today.
Alex Da Corte (b. 1980, Camden, NJ) is a Venezuelan-American artist. Institutional exhibition highlights include the survey exhibitions The Whale at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (2025), Fresh Hell at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan (2023), and Mr. Remember at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark (2022–23); the Whitney Biennial Quiet as It’s Kept (2022); the Roof Garden Commission for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2021); the Biennale di Venezia May You Live in Interesting Times, Venice (2019); the 57th Carnegie International, Pittsburgh (2019); and solo exhibitions at Glenstone, Potomac (2025); the Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (2018); Secession, Vienna (2016); Art + Practice, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2016); MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts (2016); Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2015); and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (2014, together with Jayson Musson). Da Corte lives and works in Philadelphia. Recent longform critical writing includes catalogue essays for the international touring exhibitions Marisol: A Retrospective and Ellsworth Kelly at 100. In 2026, with the Whitney Museum’s Meg Onli, Da Corte will co-curate the first Roy Lichtenstein retrospective in New York in more than 30 years. Da Corte was the 2023 Philip Guston Rome Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Rome.
Director Carlos Basualdo joined the Nasher Sculpture Center in 2025. Basualdo was formerly the Marion (Kippy) Boulton Stroud Deputy Director and Chief Curator of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. From 2005 to 2022, Basualdo served as Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the PMA. During this time, he curated landmark exhibitions including Bruce Nauman: Topological Gardens, which was presented at the 2009 Venice Biennale and received the Golden Lion for Best National Participation; Dancing Around the Bride (2012), a multidisciplinary exploration of Marcel Duchamp’s legacy; Barbara Chase-Riboud: The Malcolm X Series (2013–14), showcasing the artist’s iconic bronze and textile sculptures honoring the legacy of Malcolm X; and Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror (2021–22), the most comprehensive retrospective of the artist to date, co-organized with Scott Rothkopf and the Whitney Museum.
Image: Roy Lichtenstein, Barcelona Head (Study), about 1987. Cut-and-pasted painted and printed paper on foamcore, T-pins, and ball head pins. Dallas Museum of Art and Nasher Sculpture Center, gift of the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation in Celebration of the Centennial of Roy Lichtenstein 2024.19.38. © Roy Lichtenstein Foundation.
