Sixties Surreal at the Whitney: Yesterday’s Dreams, Today’s Echoes

Art review: Sixties Surreal

At long last, an exhibition of 1960s art has arrived that “makes the decade weird again,” said Jerry Saltz in NYMag.com. For too long, museums have been mounting tributes to the era suggesting that pop art, minimalism, conceptualism, land art, and feminism were the only languages spoken. Happily, “Sixties Surreal” is “not the same old same old.” It uses an elastic definition of “surreal” to bring together some 150 works by 111 artists who plugge…

Sixties Surreal at the Whitney: yesterday’s dreams, today’s echoes

The Whitney has once again raised the curtain on history with Sixties Surreal, a landmark exhibition that does not so much revisit the 1960s as it reanimates them. Featuring more than one hundred artists—Arbus, Kusama, Bearden, Chicago, Warhol, Hammons, Bourgeois, Johns, Marisol, Ringgold, Whitten, and others—the show offers a thrillingly revisionist portrait of an era when art did not merely reflect civil unrest and cultural upheaval, but sough…

What If Surrealism Had Won? The Whitney Asks a 1960s Question

Explore the Review Sixties Surreal Whitney Museum of American Art and discover the impact of surrealism on 1960s American art.