Poster House

In Person Tour: Freak Power
2021-07-10 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York)
Poster House is turning 2! To celebrate our second year of poster-filled exhibitions and programming, we will be open free of charge on July 10!
At 2pm, Collections Manager Melissa Walker will take guests on a guided tour of our current exhibition Freak Power. Learn about Hunter S. Thompson’s bid to become sheriff of Aspen with Poster House’s resident political poster expert!
Note: Covid safety protocols, including social distancing and masks, will be enforced throughout the day. Guided tours are offered free of charge but must be reserved in advance to ensure we comply with all safety regulations.

In-Person Tour: Vera List & the Posters of Lincoln Center
2021-07-10 13:00 - 14:00
Poster House is turning 2! To celebrate our second year of poster-filled exhibitions and programming, we will be open free of charge on July 10!
at 1pm, Join Chief Curator Angelina Lippert for an in-depth look at our mini-exhibition Vera List & The Posters of Lincoln Center. Learn how Vera List’s generous donation to Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts created an amazing archive of posters made by the hottest contemporary artists of the time.
Note: Covid safety protocols, including social distancing and masks, will be enforced throughout the day. Guided tours are offered free of charge but must be reserved in advance to ensure we comply with all safety regulations.

Poster House's Second Birthday!
2021-07-10 10:00 - 18:00
Poster House is turning 2! To celebrate our second year of poster-filled exhibitions and programming, we will be open free of charge on July 10!
Grab your friends and come see our current exhibitions and enjoy everything Poster House has to offer. Throughout the day, we’ll have guided tours, interactive activities, and sweet treats available in our Café. You can sign up for a free tour through the links below or reserve your free museum ticket here. We can’t wait to celebrate with you!
Note: Covid safety protocols, including social distancing and masks, will be enforced throughout the day. Guided tours are offered free of charge but must be reserved in advance to ensure we comply with all safety regulations.
Tours (Advanced Registration Required):
In Person Tour of Vera List & the Posters of Lincoln Center, 1pm
Join Chief Curator Angelina Lippert for an in-depth look at our mini-exhibition Vera List & The Posters of Lincoln Center. Learn how Vera List’s generous donation to Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts created an amazing archive of posters made by the hottest contemporary artists of the time.
In Person Tour of Freak Power, 2pm
Collections Manager Melissa Walker will take guests on a guided tour of our current exhibition Freak Power. Learn about Hunter S. Thompson’s bid to become sheriff of Aspen with Poster House’s resident political poster expert!
In Person Tour of Julius Klinger: Posters For A Modern Age, 3pm
Join Chief Curator Angelina Lippert for an entertaining tour of Julius Klinger: Posters for a Modern Age, on loan to us from the Wolfsonian in Miami Beach, Florida. Get an in-depth look at the iconic, humorous, and quirky work of Julius Klinger, and learn how his posters shaped modern advertising.
Drop in Activities (No Registration Required):
Button Making, 12–4pm
Stop by our Poster History Timeline and make your very own commemorative button! Select a design and watch it get made in real time by our lovely staff.
Live Screen Printing Demonstration with Mike King, 12–4pm
Print your very own limited-edition silkscreen poster with Mike King, the world’s most prolific gig poster artist! $10 includes the cost of materials and your commemorative poster.
Freak Power Poster Signing with Pablo Medina, 12–4pm
Love our Freak Power exhibition poster? Now’s your chance to meet the artist behind this incredible piece! Pablo Medina will be in our shop answering design questions and signing originals. Pablo is a graphic designer and artist who spends his time designing for cultural and NGO clients (including Taskforce/IntoAction, the MoMA, The New York Times, and Sneaker News) and making art in his studio at the Trestle Art Space in Brooklyn.

Poster Kids: Center Stage & Silhouettes
2021-06-27 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.
Drama! Music! Dance! You can experience all this and more at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
Join Poster House for an interactive tour of our current exhibition Vera List & The Posters of Lincoln Center, and learn about Vera’s relationships with the many famous artists she commissioned to promote the new cultural venue. After the tour, a guided workshop will help you make set designs for your dream show accompanied by paper cut-out silhouette characters to bring it to life.
Materials:
thick paper
markers
black paper
scissors
dowels/chopsticks
heavy duty tape

Democracy on Paper
2021-06-23 12:00 - 13:30
The political posters of the 1960s and ‘70s defined a generation, helping shape contemporary politics. Join Poster House Collections Manager Melissa Walker as she examines mid-century presidential election posters, including the Nixon, JFK, and Reagan campaigns. Explore how both mainstream and counterculture political posters have spurred civic engagement throughout history!
This program is intended for teen and 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

Juneteenth-Free Museum Admission!
2021-06-19 10:00 - 18:00
In celebration of Juneteenth, which commemorates the end of slavery in the United States on June 19, 1865, Poster House is pleased to offer free admission to the museum on Saturday, June 19 (discount applied at check-out).
This program is organized by CMYK Council, Poster House’s working advisory board of BIPOC creatives, designers, educators, and museum staff.

The Top-Heavy G: Julius Klinger's Lettering and Type Design with Paul Shaw
2021-06-18 13:00 - 14:00
Poster House is thrilled to partner once again with its favorite type historian, Paul Shaw, for an afternoon exploring the lettering and type design of renowned poster designer Julius Klinger. This event is co-presented by Typographics.
Spanning nearly four decades, Klinger’s posters and other designs showcase a wide range of lettering styles. Some of them were common in Austria and Germany in the period between the formation of the Vienna Secession and the outbreak of The Great War; and some reflected themes common to Art Deco after the war. But others are unique to Klinger. Shaw will lead us on a detailed (even nerdy) look at the evolution of Klinger’s lettering and type, placing him in context with Koloman Moser, Alfred Roller and other members of the Vienna Secession; and the German sachplakat artists, such as Lucian Bernhard, associated with the printers Hollerbaum & Schmidt. His presentation will draw primarily from Julius Klinger: Posters for a Modern Age, on loan from the Wolfsonian in Miami Beach, is currently on view at Poster House in New York City.
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. He has previously done presentations for Poster House on the lettering of Alfons Mucha and the typography of post-World War II posters.
Julius Klinger: Posters for a Modern Age comes to Poster House from The Wolfsonian–Florida International University in Miami Beach, FL.

Members-Only Viewing: Vera List & The Posters of Lincoln Center
2021-06-17 18:00 - 20:00
Forget about boring museum tours! Our Chief Curator Angelina Lippert is known for her relatable, funny anecdotes and casual style. This in-person presentation will explore the relationship between Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and Vera List, and the early advertising posters she helped commission for the famed institution.
Questions and fabulous attire are encouraged!
Due to ongoing public health protocols, masks will be mandatory and proper social distancing will be encouraged at all times. The museum will not be serving food or drink, but attendees will receive a special gift bag to take home.
This viewing is free and for Members-only. Capacity is limited, advance registration is required.
Angelina Lippert Angelina Lippert is the Chief Curator of Poster House in New York City, the first museum in the United States dedicated to the impact and history of the poster. She holds an MA in the art of the Russian Avant-Garde from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, and a BA in theology and art history from Smith College. She is the author of The Art Deco Poster, and has lectured at SVA, The Cooper Union, Columbia University, the Sotheby’s Institute of Art, and the New York Public Library. She is a contributing writer to The Muse by Clio Entertainment, and is an editor for Vintage Poster magazine.

Remote Vibrant Verbal Description Tour: Mistinguett, Parisian Cabaret Star
2021-06-17 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 Mistinguett, one of the most fascinating cabaret stars of the 20th century who had over 100 posters of her created during her length career. If you’ve attended a previous iteration of this tour, the images discussed in this session will be entirely new.
Please email access@posterhouse.org or call 917.722.2439 x413 by June 15th 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.

Fiona McDonnell: Virtual Studio Tour
2021-06-14 19:30 - 20:30
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 Live Studio Tours—hour-long sessions on our Instagram account in which up and coming graphic artists give us a personalized peek inside their poster-making world.
Tonight, we are featuring Fiona McDonnell (she/her). McDonnell is a freelance illustrator based in the North of Ireland. Using her distinct style of illustration, McDonnell has been commissioned by a variety of commercial clients including LUSH, Facebook, and Dazed, all while sustaining a personal practice. Poster design has been a driving force throughout McDonnell’s career, with the accessibility of posters as art for the masses being what initially drew her to the medium. Since then, she describes each poster project as, “a chance to challenge myself by exploring new ways of creating and combining illustration, typography, and visual communication.” The illustrations in these posters, along with McDonnell’s overall illustration practice, are often accompanied by commentary and self-reflection on social issues, politics, music, and film (or whatever else she may be interested in at the time.)
Instagram handle: @fionaamcd

Everyone Needs an Alibi
2021-06-10 19:00 - 21:00
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
