Instagram Takeover: Molly Crabapple

Poster House is dedicated to celebrating all voices within the poster community. In an effort to share with our audience the widest array of poster talent, we are partnering with numerous young designers around the world to create Instagram Takeovers—full days on our Instagram account in which up and coming graphic artists give us a […]

Winter Break: Ski Posters & Après Ski Cocktails

Our Posters & Cocktails parties keep getting rave reviews, so we’re rounding out the year with one more night of great design and mixology! 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 take us on a much-needed […]

Virtual Archives Tour

Join Poster House’s Collections Manager, Melissa Walker, for a look behind the scenes at the museum’s archives! This freewheeling glimpse into the museum’s permanent collection will cover everything from our Living Archive project to vintage posters; contemporary advertising campaigns to recent acquisitions. Come learn about the museum’s collecting mission and ask Melissa about all things collections-related! […]

Virtual Talk with Bowne & Co: Letterpress in New York City

Poster House is thrilled to partner with Robert Wilson, Art Director at Bowne & Co., of the South Street Seaport Museum, for an evening dedicated to the early history of letterpress printing in New York City. In this presentation, he will explore a number of production processes that built the visual landscape of New York, […]

Lippert & Lowry: Fireside Chats

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 […]

Remote Vibrant Verbal Description Tour: The Sleeping Giant

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. Due to the current public health crisis surrounding COVID-19, we’re bringing our […]

Alphonse Mucha: The Illustrator Who Changed the Advertising World

Join New York Adventure Club as we explore the Paris portion of Alphonse Mucha's career, and the exhibition Alphonse Mucha: Art Nouveau / Nouvelle Femme formerly debuted at Poster House — through exhibitions, events, and publications, this museum presents a global view of posters from their earliest appearance in the late 1800s, to their present-day use. Led by Poster House Chief […]

Poster House Book Club: Kraft by Jonas Lüscher

The Poster House Book Club meets a few times an exhibition cycle to discuss vibrant, interesting, and dynamic works of fiction that relate to the posters on view. In honor of The Swiss Grid, we will be discussing Jonas Lüscher's novel Kraft, which won the Swiss Book Award in 2017 and will be making its debut in English […]

Instagram Takeover: Michael DeForge

Poster House is dedicated to celebrating all voices within the poster community. In an effort to share with our audience the widest array of poster talent, we are partnering with numerous young designers around the world to create Instagram Takeovers—full days on our Instagram account in which up and coming graphic artists give us a personalized […]

The Gay Agenda: Homoeroticism in Communist Propaganda

So many Communist propaganda posters feature men holding hands, kissing, or clutching each other in a passionate embrace—all to symbolize the great bond between men of different cultural backgrounds unified under Communism. But what if the artists behind these posters were just creating the least-subtle depictions of a gay utopia? Scholars have long pointed out […]