Join Angelina Lippert, chief curator at Poster House, for a virtual look at the work of one of the most significant artists in the form, as seen in the recent exhibition Alphonse Mucha: Art Nouveau / Nouvelle Femme. Mucha arrived in Paris in 1887, living in relative poverty as an obscure illustrator. That changed in late 1894, when […]
Join Poster House on the last Sunday morning of every month, from 10–11am for a family-friendly, interactive, virtual poster tour and a related art-making experience. Admission is free; advanced registration is required in order to receive link access and a list of suggested materials. See below for details. Do you love movies, plays, and concerts? […]
Designing digital art and sipping a custom-crafted beverage is a great way to kick off our Spring 2021 College Night season! We’ll spend the evening with Maya Varadaraj, Master Educator, and Yosmerilyn Rodriguez, Gallery Assistant and Access Coordinator, exploring three product posters and the designers who made them. Taking inspiration from these images, we will create […]
Our Posters & Cocktails parties have amassed a huge following, so we are keeping the momentum going by bringing this edition to new heights! That's right: it's a night of aviation posters and mile-high drinks! Our Chief Curator will once again be hosting Nicholas Lowry of Swann Auction Galleries and Don Spiro of The Green Fairy Society over Zoom as they soar through all things […]
Join everyone’s favorite blazer-loving poster duo for a Fireside Chat on Instagram Live! Angelina Lippert, our Chief Curator, and Nicholas Lowry, Director of Swann Auction Galleries, are two of the biggest personalities in the poster world. And they also happen to be best buddies! So why not spend your evening hanging out with them? There’ll even be […]
Expand your literary poster horizons on a wild ride through advertising history, with poster experts Nicholas Lowry from Swann Galleries and Angelina Lippert, chief curator at New York's Poster House, opened in 2019 as the nation's first museum devoted to the poster. They will explore how books have been advertised in posters since the late […]
Poster House is thrilled to welcome Daniel Joseph Watkins for a discussion on the powerful anti-war and pro-environment beliefs of the artist Thomas W. Benton. Watkins's talk will highlight Benton's collaborations with Gonzo Journalist Hunter S. Thompson as well as the larger body of political posters Benton created in the 1960s and 70s. Watkins's first book, […]
We’re taking you behind the scenes of Poster House through a virtual tour of the installation process for our two newest exhibits: Freak Power and Julius Klinger: Posters For A Modern Age! Join us over Zoom on Tuesday, March 16, at 6:30pm to hear from our Exhibitions and Operations teams as they show us how […]
Poster House is delighted to partner with Karen Etingin, author of The Life and Art of Julius Klinger, for an evening of merriment and posters! Join us as Karen explores the role of humor in European advertising in the early 20th century, with particular emphasis on Klinger's magnificent oeuvre. Karen Etingin is the owner of the […]
Every month, Poster House offers Vibrant Verbal Description Tours specifically for the low vision and blind community. Explore one of the museum’s shows with an experienced educator trained in the art of verbal description and learn more about the history of printed posters. In order to reach a wide, art-loving audience around the world, we […]