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.
This program will take place in Horchow Auditorium at the Dallas Museum of Art (1717 N. Harwood St.) Registration is FREE and open to the public. No registration required (first-come, first-served seating).
About Alex Da Corte
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 Musem 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.
About Carlos Basualdo
Director Carlos Basualdo joined 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 – 2014), 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.