Poster House

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Poster House
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Poster House
Established2015 (2015)
Location119 West 23rd Street
New York, NY 10011
Coordinates 40°44′36″N73°59′37″W / 40.74335°N 73.99349°W / 40.74335; -73.99349
Type Art museum
Director Julia Knight
President Val Crosswhite
Curator Angelina Lippert
Architect LTL Architects
Public transit access New York City Bus:
M7, M20, M23 SBS, M55
New York City Subway: Port Authority Trans-Hudson: HOB-33, JSQ-33 (via HOB), or JSQ-33 to 23rd Street
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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 Sixth Avenue and Seventh Avenue. The museum opened to the public on June 20, 2019.

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History

Poster House was incorporated in 2015 and opened to the public on June 20, 2019. [3] [4] Its logo was designed by Paula Scher of Pentagram. [5] The museum space, which formerly housed an Apple products repair store by the name of Tekserve, was redesigned by LTL Architects and Lumen Architecture. [6] [7]

Collection

When Poster House opened in 2019, its permanent collection contained approximately 7,000 posters from 100 different countries. [5] This included 3,000 pieces related to the 2017 Women's March as well as 98 Subway Series posters. [5] [8] The Subway Series donation was made by the School of Visual Arts. It includes works by Milton Glaser, Louise Fili, and Paula Scher. [8]

The museum's collection contains works ranging from the late 1800s through present day. [3] The contemporary works are contained in a living archive that Poster House adds to on a regular basis. [9] [10] The museum draws from both its historic and contemporary collections to stage exhibitions focused on a particular artist, movement, or theme. [9]

Select exhibitions

Poster House's first exhibition, in June 2019, featured more than 80 posters by the Czech graphic designer Alphonse Mucha. [4] A February 2020 exhibition called The Swiss Grid examined influential Swiss design and typographic style. [11]

In April 2021, Poster House held an exhibition featuring the work of Julius Klinger. [12] In September 2021, the museum opened You Can't Bleed Me, which displayed posters and marketing materials from notable Blaxploitation films such as Slaughter and Coffy . [13] That same month, it opened an exhibition containing over 200 posters from the New York-based design and illustration firm Push Pin Studios. [14]

In March 2022, Poster House opened Ethel Reed: I Am My Own Person, a show featuring poster and magazine cover illustrations Reed designed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. [15] [16]

Black Power to Black People, an exhibition featuring the history, art, and branding of the Black Panther Party, began in March 2023. [17] That month also marked the opening of Made in Japan, which focused on World War II and Post-War Era Japanese poster art. [18] Other 2023 exhibitions included Art Deco: Commercializing the Avant-Garde, a 53-piece show examining the use of Art Deco in mid-century advertisements, and We Tried To Warn You!, which featured environmental movement posters and advertisements from the 1970s through the 2000s. [19] [20]

Special projects

In April 2020, Poster House and Print collaborated on a public safety campaign called #CombatCOVID. The campaign employed graphic designers including Jessica Hische, Maira Kalman, and Edel Rodriguez, who created a series of posters communicating public safety guidelines and encouraging sentiment to New York City residents. [21] [22] These posters were displayed on approximately 1,700 digital advertising spaces across the five boroughs. [22]

Poster House also partnered with food writer and historian Grace Young to create Coronavirus: Chinatown Stories, a video series in which Young documented the difficulties small businesses in Manhattan's Chinatown were experiencing during the pandemic. [23] [24] Young received the 2022 Julia Child Award, in part due to her work on the series. [25] The award was presented to her by Poster House's Julia Knight. [26]

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