Meet the Man Behind the Largest Collection of Movie Posters in the World, with a Current Exhibition at Poster House Museum NYC ~ Dwight Cleveland

 

 

 

Dwight Cleveland in front of title board at ‘Coming Soon!’ exhibition at Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach. Photo: Jacek Photo

This year, one of the many wonderful exhibition on view at Poster House Museum in the Flatiron District of NYC focuses on Lobby Cards advertising Hollywood and East Coast movies made largely by women ~ for women ~ created during the 1910s and 20s. The exhibition, entitled Experimental Marriage: Women in Early Hollywood, is currently on view until October 9, 2022 ~ and the story behind the man who loaned these historic posters to the Museum is as interesting as the exhibition itself.

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Art Exhibits, Events & Installations in NYC in April 2022

 

 

 

Charles Mingus. Courtesy of Jazz Workshop, Inc. ~ Jazz at Lincoln Center Celebrates Mingus at 100!

From The Winter Show, this year held at 660 Madison, to The Whitney Biennial ~ From a living wall in Times Square to the much awaited Jean-Michel Basquiat: KingPleasure ~ From Winslow’s Homer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art to Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Mingus at 100 ~  From the Fifth Avenue Easter Parade to the New York Landmarks Conservancy 2022 Lucy G. Moses Awards and ~ ahhhh, Coffee in the NUDE at Fotografiska ~ April is back on track. Here are a few suggestions.

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A Poster House Museum Fall 2021 Preview

 

 

Vera List & The Posters of Lincoln Center

The Poster House Museum will reopen in two weeks with four distinct exhibitions, all opening on September 2nd. Let’s take a look at what will be on view.

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Poster House Celebrates Pride Month with Harlem’s Alibi Lounge ~ ‘Everyone Needs An Alibi’

 

 

 

Poster House Museum

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!

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Avram Finkelstein + Ian Bradley-Perrin in Conversation at Poster House Museum During Pride Month 2020

 

 

Image courtesy Poster House Museum

As part of ongoing Pride Month Programming at Poster House Museum, save the date, June 29th from 5:30-7:30pm for Avram Finkelstein, one of the creators of the iconic Silence=Death poster, in conversation with AIDS historian Ian Bradley-Perrin.

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It’s a Trivia Party! Poster House Museum Celebrates First Year with a Birthday Drag Brunch

 

 

 

heddalettucenyc via porterhouse.org

It’s a party ~ a Trivia Party! Poster House Museum is celebrating its First Birthday with a Virtual Birthday Drag Brunch on June 21st! For this poster-themed event, the Museum has enlisted none other than the incomparable Hedda Lettuce to host Classic Movie Poster Trivia over Zoom. Grab a cocktail and sign up for this Free Event.

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20/20 Insight: Posters from 2017 Women’s March at Poster House Museum NYC

 

 

 

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In a celebration of the January 21, 2017 Women’s March throughout the Country, Poster House Museum opens its doors to a deeper look within the larger context of this demonstration in response to the election of Donald Trump, with the exhibition 20/20 Insight: Posters from the 2017 Women’s March.

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Explore the Golden Age of Hand-Painted Movie Posters from Ghana at Poster House Museum

 

 

 

Photographyt of posters from Ernie Wolfe’s book Extreme Canvas 1; by Ola Baldych

How did the mix of Western movies, economics and religion in the 1980s and 1990s inspire larger-than-life posters in Ghana? If you are intrigued by movie posters, you won’t want to miss the next exhibition at Poster House Museum ~  Baptized by Beefcake: The Golden Age of Hand-Painted Movie Posters from Ghana.

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Poster House Museum Opens in Chelsea

 

 

 

Alphonse Mucha: Art Nouveau/Nouvelle Femme ~ one of the two inaugural exhibitions

The much anticipated Poster House Museum opened in June, 2019, exhibiting posters from their earliest appearance in the late 1800s to present day. Here, visitors will explore New York’s long relationship with advertising and design, including nearly 100 select works from the School of Visual Arts (SVA) Subway Series.

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