Poster House is pleased to welcome graphic designer and scholar Sadie Redwing for a wide-ranging conversation on Indigenous poster history and graphic communication. Describing the perspective of Indigenous ideology in visual communication is very challenging—especially to an audience who does not understand the harm of cultural appropriation. Indigenous sensitivity to appropriation is not taken into […]
Join type historian Paul Shaw for an in-depth tour exploring the typefaces in Poster House’s exhibition Art Deco: Commercializing the Avant-Garde. This wide-ranging talk will investigate the bold, geometric letterforms that are a hallmark of the Art Deco graphic style. Type enthusiasts and casual fans alike will enjoy this comprehensive look at Deco lettering. Questions […]
Poster House is pleased to host “America’s illustrator-in-chief,” Edel Rodriguez, in conversation with graphic designer and writer, Chip Kidd, for a wide-ranging conversation on Rodriguez’s new graphic memoir Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey. Worm is available for purchase at the Poster House Shop; book signing to follow. Through vivid, stirring art, Worm tells the story […]
Every month, Poster House offers virtual Vibrant Verbal Description Tours specifically for community members who are blind or have low vision. In order to reach a wide, art-loving audience around the world, we offer our description tours online through Zoom. These tours are led by our Chief Curator or Educators, allowing you intimate access to […]
Poster House invites you to a special curator-led tour of Art Deco: Commercializing the Avant-Garde. This exhibition chronicles the rise and fall of what would come to be known as Art Deco, starting with the 1925 Paris Exhibition where various factions of the European avant-garde were distilled through commercial endeavors to become the visual language […]
This month, Poster Kids will explore the exhibition We Tried to Warn You! Environmental Crisis Posters, 1970–2020. In the gallery, we’ll learn about environmental issues and the posters that have attempted to encourage people to save our planet. Afterward, in the spirit of environmental consciousness, we’ll make artwork from recycled materials. Join Poster House […]
The Chrysler Building, the Waldorf-Astoria, Rockefeller Center—these are among the hundreds of Art Deco monuments that during the 1920s and ‘30s helped create the image of New York City as the world’s modern metropolis. In New York, Art Deco evolved through a series of Manhattan skyscrapers into the city’s chief architectural language. Following a massive […]
Join Poster House on the First Friday of every month for free admission and extended hours! Explore the museum’s latest exhibitions and get in on the fun by attending a tour, workshop, performance, or activity throughout the day. Every First Friday is different, offering unique opportunities to engage with rotating exhibitions and the permanent collection. […]
Poster House is thrilled to offer its Members a curatorial tour of the celebrated exhibition Art for the Millions: American Culture & Politics in the 1930s. Currently on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, this exhibition uses over 100 posters, prints, paintings, textiles, sculpture, and other objects and ephemera to tell the complex story […]
In honor of our celebrated exhibition We Tried to Warn You! Environmental Crisis Posters, 1970–2020, Poster House Members are invited to an after-hours, private tour of the Climate Museum’s latest show, The End of Fossil Fuel. This new exhibition explores the fossil fuel industry’s history of racism and deception, and spotlights the success of the […]