> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.unknowndivide.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Gap x Roy Lichtenstein: The Whitney's Pop Art Collection Is On Sale Now - URL: https://www.unknowndivide.com/gap-roy-lichtenstein-whitney-collection/ - Published: 2026-10-07T15:01:03.000Z - Updated: 2026-10-07T15:01:05.000Z - Description: Ben-Day dots on sherpa and comic heroines on tees. Gap's 18-piece Roy Lichtenstein collection with the Whitney is on sale now, four days before Like New, the first New York retrospective of the artist since 1993. - Author: unknowndivide staff - Tags: Style, Culture Roy Lichtenstein lifted images from comic books and ads and blew them up into paintings. Now they are coming back as hoodies. Gap, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Estate of Roy Lichtenstein have launched an 18-piece collection of clothing and accessories, on sale from today, Wednesday, October 7\. It lands four days before the Whitney opens [*Roy Lichtenstein: Like New*](https://whitney.org/exhibitions/lichtenstein?ref=unknowndivide.com), the first New York retrospective of the artist since 1993. ## What is in the collection The Whitney's own shop copy calls it the artist's "bold visual language" brought to "an 18-piece collection of clothing and accessories," with "bold patterns on sherpa" and "graphic prints on tees." According to the partners, the pieces are built on Gap staples: hoodies, sweatshirts, button-down shirts, T-shirts and accessories. Early looks reported by Hypebeast put two 1963 works, *Crying Girl* and *Girl in Window*, on graphic tees, a Standing Explosion print on a hoodie, a varsity jacket and a poplin top, and the red and blue Ben-Day dots from his Rouen Cathedral paintings, his riff on Monet, on a quarter-zip and a sweatshirt. Ben-Day dots are the tiny printed dots cheap color comics used to fake shading, and Lichtenstein painted them by hand until they became his signature. Caps carry his speech-bubble lines, including "Ohhh...Alright..." The deep cut is a Laughing Cat sweater, based on a painting from his breakthrough 1962 show at Leo Castelli Gallery. Gap brand CEO Mark Breitbard told FashionUnited the project was a way to "bring together art, culture and self-expression in a way that felt authentic to Gap." The collection is sold at select Gap stores, on [gap.com](https://www.gap.com/browse/search.do?searchText=lichtenstein&ref=unknowndivide.com), on whitney.org and in the museum's own store. We could not find official prices yet, and when we checked late Wednesday morning the [Whitney's online collection page](https://shop.whitney.org/collections/gap-lichtenstein-whitney?ref=unknowndivide.com) had not filled in, so Gap is the place to watch for now. ## Why the show matters *Like New* runs October 11, 2026 through May 10, 2027, with member previews October 8 to 10\. Curator Meg Onli and guest curator Alex Da Corte have gathered roughly 130 works made from the early 1940s through the 1990s, across painting, drawing, collage, prints, sculpture and film. The headliners are here: *Look Mickey* (1961), *Girl with Ball* (1961), *Masterpiece* (1962), *Drowning Girl* (1963), *Happy Tears* (1964), *Little Big Painting* (1965), *Rouen Cathedral, Set III* (1968-69) and *Artist's Studio "The Dance"* (1974). The museum is also re-creating his murals, including a nearly 96-foot version of *Greene Street Mural* (1983), and for the first time it has reunited every work from that 1962 Castelli show, the moment his Pop paintings first hit New York. The angle lifts it above a greatest hits tour. The Whitney frames Lichtenstein as an appropriation artist before anyone used the term, copying and enlarging images long before everything got screenshotted and reposted. Work by Louise Lawler, Richard Pettibone and Sturtevant, artists who made copying their subject, hangs nearby to make the point. ## Tickets and the book Whitney admission is $30 for adults and $24 for seniors and students, and visitors 25 and under now get in free, as do members. The museum recommends booking timed tickets in advance on its [visit page](https://whitney.org/visit?ref=unknowndivide.com). If you only buy one thing, make it the catalogue. *Roy Lichtenstein: Like New* was designed by the Dutch book designer Irma Boom, and it trades chronology for unexpected pairings of works, studies and source material. It costs $65 at the [Whitney Shop](https://shop.whitney.org/products/roy-lichtenstein-like-new-little-big-painting-cover?ref=unknowndivide.com), with either a *Drowning Girl* cover or a *Little Big Painting* cover that the shop lists as a Whitney exclusive. The shop also has $28 journals with 192 blank pages and *Crying Girl* or *Little Big Painting* on the front, plus a $75 enamel pin set. ## Our call Art collabs at mall brands can feel like licensing with a press release attached, but this one has a better excuse than most. Lichtenstein took his images from mass-market print, so watching them return as mass-market clothing is close to the point of the work. Skip the obvious comic panels and go for the deep cuts like the Laughing Cat. Then see the paintings in person if you can. The hand-painted dots look nothing like a print up close. For another artist on knitwear, see how Damien Hirst's spots landed on [Barrie cashmere](https://www.unknowndivide.com/barrie-damien-hirst-cashmere-collection/). If you are planning a museum weekend, the [Marcel Duchamp retrospective in Philadelphia](https://www.unknowndivide.com/marcel-duchamp-retrospective-philadelphia/) opens the day before, a short train ride away. On the West Coast, [RM x SFMOMA](https://www.unknowndivide.com/rm-x-sfmoma-between-you-and-me/) shows the private art collection of RM, the BTS leader Kim Namjoon. [Roy Lichtenstein: Like New at the Whitney](https://whitney.org/exhibitions/lichtenstein?ref=unknowndivide.com) · [Shop the collection at Gap](https://www.gap.com/browse/search.do?searchText=lichtenstein&ref=unknowndivide.com) · [Lichtenstein at the Whitney Shop](https://shop.whitney.org/collections/roy-lichtenstein?ref=unknowndivide.com)