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American art. "Sixties Surreal" moves beyond the predictable narrative of Pop, conceptual, and minimal art to examine works from those turbulent times not as a byproduct of European Surrealism, but as an inventive and novel form of American- forged Surrealism. A ground-breaking, visually stunning exhibition that challenges the art-historical canon, "Sixties Surreal" encompasses the well-known and the underknown, including artists Nancy Graves (those controversial Camels), Diane Arbus, Judy Chicago, Yayoi Kusama, David Hammons, Faith Ringgold, H.C. Westermann, Marisol, Robert Crumb, Peter Saul, Christina Ramberg, and Nancy Grossman. The Whitney curators voyaged beyond New York for an unexplored roll call of greats to embody this theme, adding L.A., Santa Fe, Chicago, and most thrillingly, Houston, for research destinations; as to the latter, investigations at the Menil Archives yielded a quartet of artists exhibited in the Moody Gallery roster, now on v i e w o n t h e Whitney walls: R o y F r i d g e , Luis Jiménez, E d w a r d K i e n h o l z , a n d D a v i d McManaway. T h r o u g h January 19, 2026, whitney.org. Clockwise from top left: Linda Lomahaftewa's Untitled Woman's Faces, 1960s, at Whitney Museum of American Art. Kiki Kogelnik's Gee Baby - I'm Sorry, 1965, at Whitney Museum of American Art. Giorgio de Chirico's The Painter's Family, 1926, at Dallas Museum of Art. Mel Casas' Humanscape #56 (San Antonio Circus), 1969, at Whitney Museum of American Art. Tristram Hillier's Variation on the Form of an Anchor, 1939, at Dallas Museum of Art. HEARD MUSEUM, PHOENIX. © LINDA LOMAHAFTEWA. KIKI KOGELNIK FOUNDATION, NYC. © KIKI KOGELNIK. © ESTATE OF TRISTRAM PAUL HILLIER. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 2025/BRIDGEMAN IMAGES. PHOTO TATE. © 2025 ARS, NYC/SIAE, ROME. PHOTO TATE. COLLECTION AND © THE MEL CASAS FAMILY TRUST. PHOTO BY ANSEN SEALE. 138