If This Be Sin is a new musical based on the life of the fat, Black, and butch Harlem Renaissance entertainer, Gladys Bentley. The show is a raucous ride from her infamous performances in Harlem’s most notable clubs in the 1930s to her eventual path to conformity as a “good christian wife” in Los Angeles […]
For the last half-century, artists and designers all over the world over have sought to express the urgency of environmental issues in graphic terms—and to spark action. Their efforts have met with tragically little success, but the variety and ingenuity of their appeals is astounding. Tim Medland, curator of the current exhibition at Poster House […]
The great Art Deco skyscrapers—the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building—were designed by socially prominent architects, often of old New York stock. But a generation of lesser-known architects and builders—new to the profession and often new to the country—helped spread the Deco style across the more modest, but also more numerous, middle-class landscapes of […]
Poster House Members are invited to a private tour of Storywork: The Prints of Marie Watt at Print Center NY. This exhibition is the artist’s first traveling retrospective and the […]
Reflecting on the ongoing environmental crises can lead to despair, but it’s not all doom and gloom! Industries around the globe are finding ways to adapt and reduce their environmental […]
Did you know that Poster House has over 11,000 posters in its permanent collection? Join the museum’s Registrar, Melanie Papathomas, on a behind-the-scenes look at posters from around the world! […]
Join Poster Kids for the final month of We Tried to Warn You! Environmental Crisis Posters, 1970–2020 to look at posters that celebrate the natural world, warn of the dangers […]
Poster House Members are invited to a private tour of Moscoso Cosmos: Victor Moscoso’s Visual Universe at the Instituto Cervantes New York. This is the first large-scale exhibition in New […]
Welcome spring early this year by getting a start on your own mini-garden. Participants will choose from a variety of seeds and design their own flower pots. Inspired by the […]
Poster House is pleased to welcome artist and printing expert Misa Chhan for a hands-on workshop exploring the world of natural dyes inspired by the acclaimed exhibition We Tried to […]