Poster House

Everyone Needs an Alibi
2021-06-10 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
In honor of Pride month, Poster House is thrilled to partner with Alibi Lounge in Harlem, one of the last Black-owned gay bars in NYC, for an evening of cocktails & design activities that are sure to delight!
First, Alexi Minko of Alibi Lounge will walk you through some delicious cocktail creations, and share the history of Alibi lounge and the importance of preserving Black LGBT spaces.
Then Master Educator Maya Varadaraj will lead us through an interactive design activity in MURAL where participants will get the chance to name a cocktail at Alibi Harlem!
All proceeds from this event will go to The Transgender Law Center.
Cocktail Ingredients:
Elegance is An Attitude
Champagne Glass
1 oz. Drambuie
½ oz. Cointreau
½ oz. Pineau des Charentes
Taittinger Champagne
Garnish: cherry
Vanité des Vanités, Tout est Vanité
Martini Glass
2 oz. Rittenhouse Rye whiskey
1 oz. ginger liqueur
¼ oz. lemon juice
Garnish: Sprig of mint
Everyone Needs An Alibi
Rocks Glass
1 oz. Bacardi Superior rum
1 oz. Pineau des Charentes
¼ oz. fresh lime juice
¼ oz. simple syrup
1 oz. Chambord
Alexi Minko opened the very first Black Gay owned LGBTQ+ Lounge in Harlem, NYC in 2013. Alexi grew up between Europe and Africa, and fifteen years ago, moved to NYC to start their career as a lawyer at the United Nations. Although not practising human rights law on a daily basis, Alexi found a new purpose in their new role as part of a shift in the LGBTQ+ culture in Harlem.
This program is organized by CMYK Council, Poster House’s working advisory board of BIPOC creatives, designers, educators, and museum staff.
This virtual event will be hosted on Zoom with attendees cameras off. Closed Captioning will be provided. A recording will be provided to all registered attendees. Questions about access? Please email Salvador Muñoz, Public Programs Manager, at Salvador@posterhouse.org

Lippert & Lowry: Fireside Chats
2021-06-09 20:00 - 21:00
Join everyone’s favorite blazer-loving poster duo for a Fireside Chat on Instagram Live!
Angelina Lippert, Chief Curator at Poster House, 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 a real fireplace!
Ask questions, chime in, make requests, play along—no poster is off limits for these two!
This week, prepare to take an idyllic trip with your favorite conductors as they explore British Rail posters!
Just follow @posterhousenyc and @swanngalleries and tune in at 8pm for the best poster entertainment on the internet!
*This event has passed. Watch archived Fireside Chats on the “Our Friends” Highlight on our Instagram page!

Poster Kids: Activist Voices
2021-05-30 10:00 - 11:00
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.
Protests, marches, picketing, parades, and demonstrations – these are big experiences people of all ages are participating in right now. Join us for an interactive virtual tour of Poster House’s Women’s March posters promoting human rights. Afterwards, we’ll have the opportunity to create handmade posters to carry in our own Zoom rally during our workshop.
Materials:
white paper and pencil
large, heavy paper (ie: cardstock, railroad board, oaktag or cardboard)
thick black marker
thick colorful markers
ruler
masking or packing tape
scissors (optional)

Letterforms of the Viennese Secession with Letterform Archive
2021-05-27 15:00 - 16:30
Poster House is thrilled to partner once again with Letterform Archive for an exploration of the letterforms of the Viennese Secession.
At the turn of the 19th to 20th centuries, Western design underwent a clash of ideas: those who sought a return to the handcrafts of the past, and those who wanted to create entirely new modes of making; those who found inspiration in the flowing forms of nature, and those who embraced the sleek geometry of the machine. These ideals are viscerally expressed in the type and typography of the time, especially within the Jugendstil and Viennese Secession movements which continue to influence design after 100 years. Stephen Coles will take us on a floral and florid tour of Letterform Archive’s extensive collection from this period, including advertising, fine printing, and typeface specimens.
Stephen Coles, Letterform Archive’s Associate Curator & Editorial Director, joined the staff after serving on our Board of Directors since its inception. Born in Salt Lake City, he moved to San Francisco in 2004 to serve as FontShop’s creative director. He later worked as an independent consultant, connecting font makers with font users, and wrote the book The Anatomy of Type. With his background in design and journalism, combined with an obsession for type history, Stephen is responsible for the online face and voice of the Archive, and helps to shape the future of the collection. He continues to publish the influential websites Typographica and Fonts In Use.
This virtual event will be hosted on Zoom with attendees cameras off. Closed Captioning will be provided. A recording will be provided to all registered attendees. Questions about access? Please email Salvador Muñoz, Public Programs Manager, at Salvador@posterhouse.org

Virtual Cooking Class With Grace Young
2021-05-25 18:00 - 19:30
In recognition of AAPI history month, Poster House is thrilled to once again partner with award-winning author Grace Young, dubbed the “Stir-Fry Guru” by The New York Times & recipient of the 2020 James Beard Digital Media Award, for a timely & tasty virtual cooking class. If you’re ready to master the wok, join the Wok Therapist as she demystifies the art of stir-frying and demonstrates how to prepare Spicy Cashew Chicken. The high heat and quick cooking uses minimal fat to caramelize the vegetables and sear the chicken, bringing out the best in both. She will cover the essentials for stir-fry success and how to choose a wok.
During this live event, Grace will also discuss the work that she’s been doing to support and preserve Manhattan’s Chinatown. Last March, Poster House partnered with Grace and videographer Dan Ahn to create Coronavirus: Chinatown Stories. The video series chronicles the impact of COVID-19 on Manhattan’s Chinatown and has been featured at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. She also created the #SaveChineseRestaurants campaign with the James Beard Foundation.
In light of the ongoing targeted violence against Asians and Asian Americans, all proceeds from this program will support Grace Young’s & Asian Americans For Equality’s “Safe with Sound” campaign. Please consider making an additional donation in support of this important campaign.
Prep your ingredients ahead of time and stir-fry along with Grace.
Manhattan Chinatown Resources
Grace recommends 14-inch flat-bottomed carbon-steel wok from KK Discount, 78 Mulberry Street
Asian produce & groceries
88 Natural Food, 88 Mulberry Street
Po Wing Hong Supermarket, 49 Elizabeth Street
Marks Wine & Spirits, 53 Mott Street
Teas
Grand Tea Imports, 298 Grand Street
Photo Credit: Christine Han/Kitchn

Literary Posters and Advertising
2021-05-24 19:00 - 20:00
Has an image ever inspired you to read? Join poster expert and Poster House Advisory Board member Nicholas Lowry of Swann Auction Galleries as he explores and celebrates how books, reading, booksellers, publishers, and literacy itself have been promoted graphically in posters since the late 1800s.

This program is intended for all ages, but especially adult audiences. Closed captioning will be available.
This program will be streamed live on Zoom and recorded. You must register with your email address in order to receive the link to participate, which will be sent to your email the day of the event.
Culture Pass is a program for cardholding patrons of New York City’s public libraries, the Brooklyn Public Library, New York Public Library, and Queens Public Library. Support for Culture Pass is provided by The New York Community Trust, Charles H. Revson Foundation, Stavros Niarchos Foundation, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. To learn more, visit www.culturepass.nyc

Remote Vibrant Verbal Description Tour: Freak Power
2021-05-20 16:00 - 17:30
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 offer our description tours online through teleconference. These tours are led by our Chief Curator, allowing you intimate access to the items in our current shows.
This tour will focus on Freak Power, an exhibition of silkscreen posters and photographs documenting Hunter S. Thompson’s bid for sheriff of Aspen and the grassroots political movement that evolved out of those efforts.
Please email access@posterhouse.org or call 917.722.2439 x413 by May 18th to sign up for this event. You will be emailed poster images for reference as well as information about accessing the teleconference the morning of the virtual tour.
Tours start promptly and will last approximately 90 minutes with questions.
For a complete list of our Access Tours, click the Access filter at the top of our Events page, call 917.722.2439 x413 or email access@posterhouse.org. Poster House will also strive to accommodate any outside accessibility tour requests given two week’s notice.

Behind the Scenes with Melissa Walker
2021-05-19 18:30 - 19:30
Did you know that Poster House has over 10,000 posters in its permanent collection? Join Collections Manager Melissa Walker as she takes us on a behind-the-scenes look at posters from around the world!
Take a glimpse of our Living Archive, see live unboxings of recent acquisitions, and get a sneak peek of posters for upcoming exhibitions. From vintage posters to contemporary advertising and everything in-between, you don’t want to miss this rare opportunity for unbridled access to Poster House’s expansive collection!
Each behind-the-scenes tour is different, with new posters arriving daily!
This online event will be hosted on Zoom with attendees cameras off. Closed Captioning will be provided. Questions about access? Please email Salvador Muñoz, Public Programs Manager, at Salvador@posterhouse.org

Julius Klinger & Identity
2021-05-18 15:30 - 16:30
Poster House is thrilled to host Jeremy Aynsley for a discussion that will consider the complex role of identity in Julius Klinger’s work. This discussion will cover issues of Jewishness and anti-Semitism, citizenship, immigration, and xenophobia seen through the designer’s great skill in rendering identities through the representation.
Posters discussed will include individual personalities, cultural events, commercial enterprises, industrial manufacturers, and Vienna’s graphic identity in the 1920s. Klinger’s life and work raise important questions about the question of identity in the modern world that shed light on the times in which he lived while carrying significant resonances for us today.
Jeremy Aynsley is Professor of Design History at the University of Brighton, UK where he is founding director of the Centre for Design History. His research, writing and curating have focused on modernism and design. Publications include Graphic Design in Germany, 1890-1945 (2000) and Designing Modern Germany (2008) as well as Julius Klinger: Posters for a Modern Age (2017). In 2017, he was guest curator of the Wolfsonian exhibition of the same title.
This virtual event will be hosted on Zoom with attendees cameras off. Closed Captioning will be provided. Questions about access? Please email Salvador Muñoz, Public Programs Manager, at Salvador@posterhouse.org
Julius Klinger: Posters for a Modern Age comes to Poster House from The Wolfsonian–Florida International University in Miami Beach, FL.

50 Movie Posters That Changed Entertainment Marketing
2021-05-17 20:00 - 21:30
Poster House is thrilled to partner with the Clio Entertainment Awards for an evening exploring a selection of the most iconic and impactful movie posters in history.
Clio Entertainment is the original and definitive awards program celebrating creativity in the entertainment marketing industry. Originally established as The Key Art Awards by The Hollywood Reporter in 1971, the program recognizes excellence in marketing and communications across film, television, live entertainment and gaming. In honor of their 50th anniversary year, Clio Entertainment invited luminary movie poster designers and executives to curate a list of 50 great movie posters from throughout history. Join us as the authors of the list discuss their selections, their impressive careers in the industry, and celebrate the incredible craft of key art. Featuring:
Dawn Baille, Founder, BLT Communications
Kenny Gravillis, Founder and CCO, Gravillis Inc
Adam Waldman, Co-Founder and Creative Director, The Refinery
Massey Rafani, EVP Creative Advertising, Warner Bros
Molly Albright, Head of Creative Marketing, Amazon Studios
This program is presented in partnership with The Clio Entertainment Awards.
This virtual event will be hosted on Zoom with attendees cameras off. Closed Captioning will be provided. Questions about access? Please email Salvador Muñoz, Public Programs Manager, at Salvador@posterhouse.org

Virtual Tour of Julius Klinger: Posters for a Modern Age
2021-05-14 15:00 - 16:00
Join Poster House for an in-depth look at our latest exhibition Julius Klinger: Posters for a Modern Age.
Recognized as one of the leading graphic artists of the 20th century, Klinger brought a fresh voice to the world of advertising, blending humor with sexuality, quirkiness with technical precision. Klinger is often cited as one of the first to define the concept of corporate branding, and his legacy continues to shape the graphic design and advertising industries of today.
Explore the trajectory of Klinger’s impactful career in this informative and engaging virtual tour led by our talented Docent, Tim Medland. This event is a part of NYCxDesign’s Design Days.
This online event will be hosted on Zoom with attendees cameras off. Closed Captioning will be provided. Questions about access? Please email Salvador Muñoz, Public Programs Manager, at Salvador@posterhouse.org
Julius Klinger: Posters for a Modern Age comes to Poster House from The Wolfsonian–Florida International University in Miami Beach, FL

Lippert & Lowry: Fireside Chats
2021-05-12 20:00 - 21:00
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 a real fireplace!
Ask questions, chime in, make requests, play along—no poster is off limits for these two!
This week, prepare to get weird as the dynamic duo takes us on a groovy trip through psychadellic posters!
Just follow @posterhousenyc and @swanngalleries and tune in at 8pm for the best poster entertainment on the internet!
*This event has passed. Watch archived Fireside Chats on the “Our Friends” Highlight on our Instagram page!

Posters & Cocktails on the Runway
2021-05-11 19:00 - 21:00
Our Posters & Cocktails events continue to delight guests around the world. Tonight, whip out your finest attire because we’re taking it to the runway with an evening of fashion posters and fashionable beverages!
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 vogue their way through decades of fashion a la mode!
After Don opens the show with our first cocktail, Nicholas will stomp down the runway with posters for all you dapper dans. Don will continue to help us tastefully imbibe throughout the night while Nicho whisks us through the finest ready-to-wear and bespoke tailoring advertisements in history.
Cocktail Ingredients:
TUXEDO
gin
dry vermouth
maraschino liqueur
absinthe
orange bitters
garnish with lemon twist
cocktail glass
COSMOPOLITAN (1934)
gin
cointreau
fresh lemon juice
raspberry syrup (simmer fresh raspberries with equal parts sugar and water, then strain)
cocktail glass
COCO CHANEL
ciroc coconut vodka
elderflower liqueur
cocktail glass
BRANDY SCAFFA
brandy
green chartreuse
maraschino
Champagne cocktail
Möet & Chandon Champagne
Hennessy Cognac
Sugar cube
Bitters
Champagne Flute

A Queer Reading of Klinger
2021-05-06 16:00 - 17:30
Vikings and centaurs and flamingos, oh my! Our latest exhibition Julius Klinger: Posters for a Modern Age is full of fun and flamboyant posters that are perfect for outlandish interpretations. Join Poster House for an entertaining evening of wild conjecture on the contemporary queer subtexts of these extravagant images. First, author and illustrator John Paul Brammer will give a speculative queer reading of the exhibition from a contemporary perspective. Then, Ben Miller of the Schwules Museum, the world’s largest LGBTQI* museum, will give insights into the history of queer culture in Germany and share amazing pieces from it’s extensive collection. You don’t want to miss this
John Paul Brammer is an author and illustrator from Oklahoma currently based in Brooklyn. He is the creator of ¡Hola Papi!, a popular advice column catering to LGBTQ issues, and has a memoir-in-essays of the same name being published with Simon & Schuster’s flagship imprint in June. His artwork has appeared in The Washington Post as well as on his print shop, which has customers all over the world.
Ben Miller is a writer and historian living in Berlin, where he is a Doctoral Fellow at the Graduate School of Global Intellectual History at the Freie Universität, has taught on queer history, literature, and visual cultures at the Humboldt Universität and The New Centre for Research & Practice, and been awarded long-term research stipendia from the Deutscher Akademischer Auschtauschdienst and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. Since 2018, he has been a member of the board of the Schwules Museum, the world’s largest independent institution devoted to archiving and preserving LGBTQI* histories and visual culture. In 2020, he co-curated the Schwules Museum exhibit 100 Objects: An Archive of Feelings, an affective reconsideration of the Museum’s collection and of queer archival practice.
This event is presented in partnership with ONE Archives Foundation and Queer Design Club.
Julius Klinger: Posters for a Modern Age is organized by the Wolfsonian.
This virtual event will be hosted on Zoom with attendees cameras off. Closed Captioning will be provided. Questions about access? Please email Salvador Muñoz, Public Programs Manager, at Salvador@posterhouse.org

Alphonse Mucha: The Paris Years
2021-05-05 16:00 - 17:00
Join Poster House’s Chief Curator Angelina Lippert, as she tells the story of Alphonse Mucha and how his posters changed the advertising world. Learn how a serendipitous commission for Sarah Bernhardt led to making Mucha the most in-demand commercial artist of his generation, bringing Art Nouveau to the streets.
This program will feature an introduction to Poster House, as well as discussion about Mucha’s artistic style and historic impact, followed by Q+A with the curator.
This program is intended for adult audiences. Closed captioning will be available.
This program will be streamed live on Zoom and recorded. You must register with your email address in order to receive the link to participate, which will be sent to your email the day of the event.
Culture Pass is a program for cardholding patrons of New York City’s public libraries, the Brooklyn Public Library, New York Public Library, and Queens Public Library. Support for Culture Pass is provided by The New York Community Trust, Charles H. Revson Foundation, Stavros Niarchos Foundation, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. To learn more, visit www.culturepass.nyc

Oppy: The Emily Post of the Subway
2021-05-04 18:30 - 20:00
Poster House is thrilled to partner with the New York Transit Museum for an evening dedicated to little-known female poster designer Amelia Opdyke Jones (“Oppy”). Considered the Emily Post of the subway, Oppy created decades’ worth of instructional posters indicating how one should behave when riding the nation’s finest transit system. Full of humor, wit, and valuable information these posters still bring delight to viewers today and are a treasured part of the Transit Museum’s permanent collection.
Jodi Shapiro is a lifelong New Yorker who has worked at the New York Transit Museum since 2014. Prior to becoming Associate Curator, she worked in the Museum’s archive (with all the cool photos). She’s curated shows about the Second Avenue Subway, the IRT Flushing Line, the Redbird fleet of subway cars, and the Pullis Brothers.
Before she joined the Transit Museum family, Jodi had many jobs: data wrangler, record label stooge, graphic designer, investigative journalist. The most significant of these was working as an archivist for several artists’ estates, including a number of world-renown photographers. She holds a Master’s in Library Science, has way too many cameras, and fears her enormous LP record collection will be the death of her some day.

Selections from Letterform Archive: An Auction Preview Event
2021-05-03 15:00 - 16:00
Letterform Archive, a library and museum in San Francisco, has one of the world’s best collections of typographic history. With over 60,000 objects, there are hundreds of duplicates to be deaccessioned, and the nonprofit org has reserved the rarest of these gems for its first-ever auction. In anticipation of this special event, join Archive founder and curator Rob Saunders, Swann president and auctioneer Nicho Lowry, and Poster House curator Angelina Lippert for an auction preview. You’ll see iconic books, ephemera, type specimens, and other examples of typography, all of which you can add to your own collection while supporting Letterform Archive’s mission to preserve, share, and educate.

Can Art Stop a War? The Power of Posters
2021-04-27 18:30 - 20:00
From the Russian Revolution to the now-decades-long war in Afghanistan, posters have been central to winning the hearts and minds of the people who pay the costs of war with their lives and their tax dollars. They also have been critical for mobilizing opposition to war. Although many predicted that paper posters would become obsolete in the digital age, they continue to be produced in great numbers.
Carol A. Wells, founder and executive director of the Center for the Study of Political Graphics, will show how posters have been used to protest injustice and promote social change throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. The talk will also highlight the long political poster tradition of appropriation and image recycling.
Wells is an activist, art historian, curator, writer, and poster collector. In 1988, she founded CSPG, an educational and research archive in Los Angeles. Its more than 90,000 social movement posters from the 19th century to the present, include the largest collection of post-WWII posters in the U.S. Wells believes that posters can combat public apathy and feelings of helplessness, as well as stimulating political debate.
This online event will be hosted on Zoom with attendees cameras off. Closed Captioning will be provided. Questions about access? Please email Salvador Muñoz, Public Programs Manager, at Salvador@posterhouse.org

Alphonse Mucha: The Illustrator Who Changed the Advertising World
2021-04-26 20:00 - 21:30
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 Curator, Angelina Lippert, this digital showcase of Alphonse Mucha and his ground-breaking posters will include:

An overview of Poster House, the first museum in the United States dedicated exclusively to posters, which opened its doors in the Summer of 2019
The story behind Alphonse Mucha’s rise to fame and advertising career, which all started when he met the legendary Sarah Bernhardt, the most famous actress of the time
A discussion around Mucha’s artistic style, which used alluring, strong women to advertise everything from cookies to bicycles, and alcohol to rolling papers — all inspired by his professional relationship with Bernhardt
The profound impact of Mucha on the future of posters, and how his designs helped elevate women to be a part of a buddying 20th-century world with newfound independence and social agency

Afterward, We’ll have a Q&A with Angelina — any and all questions about the Mucha or general poster history are welcomed and encouraged!
Can’t make it live? Don’t worry, you’ll have access to the full replay for one week!
See you there, virtually!
Tickets: $10
*Immediately upon registering, you will receive a separate, automated email containing the link to join this webinar
**For the best possible viewing experience, please ensure you’re using the latest version of your internet browser — Google Chrome is the most compatible. Exact technical requirements and a webinar user guide will be shared in the automated confirmation email upon registration.

Poster Kids: Advertising Dreams
2021-04-25 10:00 - 11:00
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.
Julius Klinger’s advertising posters are some of the most whimsical and humorous ever created. After an interactive virtual tour of Julius Klinger: Posters for the Modern Age, our workshop will focus on sketching games that exercise our imaginations through illustration.
Materials:
sketching pencil with eraser
colorful pencils
four pieces of white paper

College Night: Virtual Printmaking Risographs with Outlet PDX
2021-04-23 16:00 - 18:30
Inspired by Poster House’s exhibition Julius Klinger: Posters For A Modern Age, College Night will be hosting a virtual printmaking workshop. Participants will learn about risograph printmaking before creating their own poster-inspired image. The workshop will be led by Outlet PDX, a women-owned print shop based in Portland, Oregon. This event will take place over Zoom on Friday, April 23 at 4pm. Please make sure to book a ticket by April 15 to secure your spot.

Lippert & Lowry: Fireside Chats
2021-04-20 20:00 - 21:00
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 a real fireplace!
Ask questions, chime in, make requests, play along—no poster is off limits for these two!
This week, they will take us on a wistful journey as they explore idyllic Italian travel posters!
Just follow @posterhousenyc and @swanngalleries and tune in at 8pm for the best poster entertainment on the internet!
*This event has passed. Watch archived Fireside Chats on the “Our Friends” Highlight on our Instagram page!

Members-Only Opening Night
2021-04-15 18:00 - 20:00
Kindly Note: In order to offer this in-person experience to as many members as possible, this event will be repeated over two nights on Thursday, April 15th and Friday, April 16th. Please only RSVP for one night, not both.
Join Poster House for a unique and exclusive look at our latest shows. First, Chief Curator Angelina Lippert will take guests on an entertaining tour of Julius Klinger: Posters for a Modern Age. Then, Director of Design and Exhibitions Ola Baldych will give guests an insider’s perspective on the exhibition design of Freak Power.
These masked, private events will be in-person at limited capacity. Masks and social distancing will be required throughout the event. In order to ensure proper social distancing, we will also be providing headsets with disposable earbuds.
Bookings are limited to one Member and a guest. Please choose only one night for your tour. As we are expecting demand to exceed availability, kindly let us know if you are unable to honor your reservation. To be placed on our waitlist or for any inquiries, email membership@posterhouse.org.
We look forward to welcoming you to our latest round of shows!

Remote Vibrant Verbal Description Tour: Julius Klinger
2021-04-15 16:00 - 17:30
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 offer our description tours online through teleconference. These tours are led by our Chief Curator, allowing you intimate access to the items in our current shows.
This tour will focus on Julius Klinger: Posters For A Modern World, an exhibition focusing on the designer’s life and outlandish Jugendstil designs.
Please email access@posterhouse.org or call 917.722.2439 x413 by April 13th to sign up for this event. You will be emailed poster images for reference as well as information about accessing the teleconference the morning of the virtual tour.
Tours start promptly and will last approximately 90 minutes with questions.
For a complete list of our Access Tours, click the Access filter at the top of our Events page, call 917.722.2439 x413 or email access@posterhouse.org. Poster House will also strive to accommodate any outside accessibility tour requests given two week’s notice.

A Tale of Three Cities: Youth Style in Berlin, Munich, & Vienna
2021-04-14 18:30 - 20:00
Poster House is thrilled to partner with the Kallir Research Institute. Directed by Jane Kallir, the KRI is devoted to the study of Austrian and German art of the early 20th century – work championed by the Galerie St. Etienne since 1939.
Tonight, Jane Kallir will be speaking about the important roles Berlin, Munich, and Vienna played in the shaping of the art and culture of Julius Klinger‘s period. This talk will feature numerous works from the Galerie St. Etienne’s recent exhibition Youth Style, posters from the Merrill C. Berman Collection, as well as posters from the exhibition Julius Klinger: Posters for a Modern Age currently on view at Poster House.
Jane Kallir is the author of the catalogue raisonné Egon Schiele: The Complete Works, as well as over 20 books on such subjects as Gustav Klimt, the Wiener Werkstätte, and the paintings of Arnold Schoenberg. She has curated exhibitions for numerous museums worldwide, including the National Gallery in Washington and the Belvedere in Vienna.
This virtual event will be hosted on Zoom with attendees cameras off. A recording of the event will be made available for all registered attendees. Closed Captioning will be provided. Questions about access? Please email Salvador Muñoz, Public Programs Manager, at Salvador@posterhouse.org
Julius Klinger: Posters for a Modern Age comes to Poster House from The Wolfsonian–Florida International University in Miami Beach, FL.

Gonzo Artivism: The Art & Activism of the Freak Power Movement
2021-04-13 18:30 - 20:00
Poster House is excited to be joined by Yuri Zupancic, co-curator of Freak Power, in exploring the intersections of art and activism. In this wide-ranging talk, Yuri will explore how the Freak Power movement blurred the lines between politics and art to inspire change by any medium necessary.
Hunter Thompson once said, “Politics is the art of controlling your environment.” He invented Gonzo Journalism by mixing fact and fantasy to paint a vivid picture of reality. Satire and political theater were hallmarks of his campaign for sheriff. Thomas W. Benton, Ralph Steadman, and other Freak Power artists took wildly creative approaches in addressing civic concerns. Zupancic will highlight some poignant —and hilarious— examples of artistic activism in the posters, advertisements and antics of Freak Power politicians and supporters beginning in 1969 and continuing to this day.
Yuri Zupancic is an independent curator and artist based in Paris. His work has been published internationally and he’s held curatorial and organizational roles in over 50 museum and gallery exhibitions in the USA, EU and UK.

This online event will be hosted on Zoom with attendees cameras off. Closed Captioning will be provided. Questions about access? Please email Salvador Muñoz, Public Programs Manager, at Salvador@posterhouse.org

Viennese Lettering: A Virtual Night With Paul Shaw
2021-04-08 18:30 - 20:00
Poster House is thrilled to partner once again with our favorite type historian, Paul Shaw, for an evening exploring lettering and the Vienna Secession.
From Koloman Moser and Alfred Roller to Lucian Bernhard and Ludwig Hohlwein to Peter Behrens and Otto Eckmann, lettering of this period was varied, innovative, and of a consistently high quality. It was an integral part of countless posters, advertising displays, and fine books, and in the 1960s and 1980s exerted an influence on American designers. Viennese lettering—through fonts such as Shaw’s Kolo—continues to fascinate and inspire designers today.
Paul Shaw is a designer and design historian with a specialty in letterforms and type. He is the author of Revival Type, Helvetica and the New York City Subway System; co-author of Blackletter and National Identity; and editor of The Eternal Letter. He teaches at Parsons School of Design and The School of Visual Arts.
This online event will be hosted on Zoom with attendees cameras off. Closed Captioning will be provided. Questions about access? Please email Salvador Muñoz, Public Programs Manager, at Salvador@posterhouse.org

Conversations on Design & Race: Getting Back to Our Roots
2021-04-07 18:30 - 20:00
Join designers Kelly Walters, Jason Alejandro, Anne H. Berry, and David Jon Walker for a panel discussion on how the influence of family, cultural origins, and ancestral heritage takes form in design practice. The designers will look reflectively at their upbringing, present objects that maintain cultural significance, and share their experiences as design students, educators, and practitioners, as discussed inBlack, Brown + Latinx Design Educators: Conversations on Design and Race by Kelly Walters. Attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions of the panelists and to order copies of Black, Brown + Latinx Design Educators. All attendees will receive a 10% Discount on the book in our Shop!
About the book: In Black, Brown + Latinx Design Educators, Kelly Walters collects twelve deeply personal interviews with graphic design educators of color who teach at colleges and universities across the United States and Canada. The book centers the unique narratives of Black, Brown, and Latinx design educators, from their childhood experiences to their navigation of undergraduate and graduate studies and their career paths in academia and practice. The interviewees represent a cross-section of ethnic and multiracial backgrounds–African American, Jamaican, Indian, Pakistani, Puerto Rican, Dominican, Mexican, and Brazilian. Their impactful stories offer invaluable perspectives for students and emerging designers of color, creating an entry point to address the complexities of race in design.
Jason Alejandro is a Puerto Rican graphic designer and educator. He is an Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at the College of New Jersey. His work examines, addresses, and questions aspects of cultural identity, professional practice and critical pedagogy through research, making, and writing. He previously taught at Rutgers University, Lehigh University, Kean University, and the University of Pennsylvania. Jason received his MFA in Graphic Design from Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Anne H. Berry is a writer, designer, and Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Design at Cleveland State University. Her research focuses on design education and ethnic and racial representation within the field of graphic design. She is a 2018 Design Incubation Fellow,
and she recently published an essay titled “The Black Designer’s Identity” for Recognize, an online design anthology presented by InVision that features essays from Indigenous people and people of color.
David Jon Walker is a Graphic Designer and Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee. He is also principal of Rhealistic Design, a design consultancy that is active locally and nationally. As a sought-after Black creative, Walker works with national political candidates, PACs, large non-profits, governmental entities, and varying businesses lending his talents to their marketing efforts to increase awareness and further campaigns. He examines social cues and the historical past to shape the aesthetic of his visual voice for personal lettering projects.
Kelly Walters is an Assistant Professor and the Associate Director of the BFA Communication Design program in Parsons School of Design at The New School. In her independent design studio Bright Polka Dot, she works across platforms to create publications, exhibitions, and digital experiences for educational and cultural institutions. Her ongoing design research interrogates the complexities of identity, systems of value, and shared vernacular in and around Black visual culture.

College Night: Museum Ed 101
2021-04-06 18:30 - 20:00
What is museum education? Have you ever considered a career as a museum educator? This Museum Ed 101 panel will provide you with information about the vast opportunities that the museum education field has to offer! Join Imani Parkinson, Samantha Hirsch, and Sierra Van Ryck deGroot as they discuss how they got into museum education and learn about the skills, practices, and passions that inspire museum educators across the country. This event, moderated by Lucy Duda, will take place on Tuesday, April 6, from 7–8:30pm over Zoom.

For the Many: The Public Art of Lincoln Center
2021-03-31 18:30 - 20:00
In honor of their partnership on the exhibition Vera List & The Posters Of Lincoln Center, Poster House and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts are teaming up on an incredible lecture chronicling the organization’s commitment to art for all.
The discussion will start with an introduction to Lincoln Center’s poster project and the critical role Vera List played in getting this landmark series off the ground. Then, we will explore the institution’s remarkably diverse history with public art, from its print project to large scale installations of works by some of the greatest artists of the 20th century.
Kristina Huntington serves as Art Advisor for the Visual Arts Program at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. She is also Founder of KH Fine Art Projects, an art consultancy for private clients, corporations, and cultural institutions. She is committed to promoting the value of art in the public and private sectors.
Bonnie Marie Sauer is the Director of Archives and Records Management at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. She is committed to promoting access to information and responsible transparency in organizations.
Image Caption
Dorothy Gillespie
Lincoln Center Information Center, 1989
Screen print
40 x 32 inches
This virtual event will be hosted on Zoom with attendees cameras off. Closed Captioning will be provided. Questions about access? Please email Salvador Muñoz, Public Programs Manager, at Salvador@posterhouse.org
