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| Established | 2015 |
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| Location | 119 West 23rd Street New York, N.Y. 10011 |
| Coordinates | 40°44′36″N 73°59′37″W / 40.74335°N 73.99349°W |
| Type | Poster museum |
| Director | Julia Knight |
| President | Val Crosswhite |
| Curator | Angelina Lippert |
| Architect | LTL Architects |
| Public transit access | New York City Bus: M7, M10, M11, M79 New York City Subway:
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| Website | posterhouse |
Poster House is the first museum in the United States dedicated exclusively to posters.[1][2]
The museum is located in Chelsea, New York City, on 23rd Street between and Sixth Avenue and 7th Avenues. The museum opened to the public on June 20th, 2019.
History & Mission edit
Val Crosswhite organized supporters and founded Poster House in 2015 to recognize the art and social impact of posters overlooked by existing institutions.[3]
"Poster House presents a global view of posters from their earliest appearance in the late 1800s, to their present-day use. Poster House takes its mission from the medium, aiming to engage and educate all audiences as we investigate this large format graphic design and its public impact."[4]
Posters as Social Objects edit
Exhibitions edit
Inaugural exhibitions (June 20–October 6, 2019) edit
Alphonse Mucha: Art Nouveau / Nouvelle Femme edit
- Alphonse Mucha: Art Nouveau / Nouvelle Femme: June 20–October 6, 2019
Alphonse Mucha, born in Bohemia, came to Paris in 1887. Over the next 8 years, he emerged from obscurity to become the most celebrated graphic designer of the Art Nouveau movement. His intricate designs and gorgeous subjects were so popular that he produced pattern books for fellow designers and students, and his publishers repurposed his advertisements for hundreds of other products.
“I predict you will be famous”
—Sarah BernhardtBut his style and status all started when he met the legendary Sarah Bernhardt, the most famous actress of her day. Mucha’s first poster for her not only launched his graphic design career, but elevated her fame, as the public buzz for the image was completely unprecedented.
From that moment on, Mucha used alluring, strong women to advertise everything from cookies to bicycles, alcohol to rolling papers. These women were part of a budding 20th-Century world wherein they had newfound independence and social agency. Through them, Mucha changed the world of advertising and brought Art Nouveau to the streets.[5]
Designing Through the Wall: Cyan in the 1990s edit
- Designing Through the Wall: Cyan in the 1990s: June 20–October 6, 2019
Born in East Berlin, Detlaf Fiedler and Daniela Haufe started the commercial graphic design agency Cyan soon after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. They would go on to become some of the first poster artists to utilize early desktop publishing tools like Photoshop and QuarkXPress into their work, while also looking back and drawing from the intellectual history of the famous Bauhaus art academy.
Cyan expands upon Germany’s rich history as a leader in the printmaking world, their posters bursting with saturated colors, perfectly-executed text, and a precision of alignment few could replicate. They turn the tenets of “good design” on their head, proving that advertising does not necessarily need to be immediately interpretable to be successful. This Jewel Box show presents their early posters for the first time in New York City.[6]
Collection edit
SVA Subway Series edit
On June 19, 2019 SVA announced the donation of 98 of their Subway Series posters from 1996 to the present which also includes "each newly created poster." The gift includes works by Milton Glaser, Louise Fili, Paula Scher and the creator of the current SVA Subway Poster: Jonathon Rosen.[7]
See Also edit
External Links edit
References edit
- ^ Hsu, Hua (1 July 2019). "A Critic at Large: How Posters Became Art". Article. The New Yorker. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
- ^ Katz, Brigit (21 June 2019). "The U.S. Is Now Home to Its First Poster Museum". Article. smithsonianmag.com. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
- ^ Samaha, Barry (6 June 2019). "Poster House Hopes to Stick Around in Chelsea". Article. Surface. Retrieved 1 August 2019.
- ^ "Poster House: About/Mission & History". About/Mission & History. Poster House. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
- ^ Lippert, Angelina. "Alphonse Mucha: Art Nouveau / Nouvelle Femme". Exhibit Thumbnail. Poster House. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
- ^ Lippert, Angelina. "Designing Through the Wall: Cyan in the 1990s". Exhibit Thumbnail. Poster House. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
- ^ Ferguson, Maeri (19 June 2019). "SVA Donates Nearly 100 Subway Series Works to Newly Opened Poster House Museum". Article. School of Visual Arts. Retrieved 16 July 2019.