NY | ArtTable NY Holiday Party at Poster House!

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Celebrate the holidays with ArtTable New York at The Poster House!  Welcome new ArtTable Members! Support our chapter’s programs! Enjoy festive food, drinks, and a photo booth! Congratulate Denise Murrell, ArtTable’s NY Chapter Leadership Awardee! Win amazing prizes in the silent auction! This year’s exhibition will take place at the Poster House, the first museum in the United States dedicated exclusively to posters. On view during this celebration will be America Got Grabbed: 20/20 Insight: Posters from the 2017 Women’s March, as well as, Baptized By Beefcake: The Golden Age of Hand-Painted Movie Posters from Ghana.

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ArtTable New York Chapter Leadership Award

Denise Murrell. John Pinderhughes/Columbia University This year ArtTable awards Denise Murrell with the New York Chapter Leadership Award. This award celebrates ArtTable members who are exceptional professionals, with the intention of recognizing their outstanding performance and contribution to the field. We look forward to presenting this award at this year’s New York Holiday Party at Poster House.  ArtTable’s New York Programs Committee is thrilled to announce Denise Murrell as the recipient of this year’s New York Chapter Leadership Award. Murrell’s dissertation and subsequent curatorial direction of Posing Modernity: The Black Model from Manet and Matisse to Today that began at The Wallach (with a sold-out 40 + ArtTable member tour), before traveling to the Musee D’Orsay, Paris, this Spring, received an overwhelming amount of praise for its situation of black female subjects as central to the development of modernity. Celebrated as “A sweeping re-examination of the history of modern art at the Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University.” –Alison Stewart, WNYC, and, “-a historically significant and aesthetically illuminating show that centers on the black female form as she appears and reappears in the work, lives, and imaginations of a number of painters, photographers, and filmmakers.”–Hilton Als, The New Yorker, Posing Modernity has altered the way that many of our members, and the art world at large, interpret the key players in art history. Last week Denise Murrell was named associate curator for 19th- and 20th-century art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, a newly created position that will involve her working closely with both the museum’s modern and contemporary department and its European painting department. She will begin this role in January.

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Poster House is the first museum in the United States dedicated exclusively to posters.

Through exhibitions, events, and publications, 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. Posters explore:

• mass communication and persuasion
• the intersection of art and commerce
• control of the public domain

For a poster to succeed, it must communicate. By combining the power of images and words, posters speak to audiences quickly and persuasively. Blending design, advertising, and art, posters clearly reflect the place and time in which they were made. Through them, Poster House explores everything from avant-garde design, to changing societal norms, and all the fads and fashions over the last 160 years. Poster House was founded in 2015 with an eye towards filling a long-acknowledged gap in the New York cultural landscape. While there are several poster museums around the world, New York, with its long relationship with advertising and design, did not have such a dedicated public institution. After several years of planning and construction, Poster House opened its doors on June 20, 2019. Who’s attending this program? Click here to see who’s currently registered! Thank you to Judith Richards, Louky Keijsers Koning, Linda Fischbach, and the Holiday Party Committee, as well as Julia Knight, Director Poster House.