Center for Book Arts is excited to present Off-Register: Publishing Experiments by Women Artists in Latin America, 1960-1990 curated by Mela Dávila from October 5 to December 16 2023. This exhibition sets out to explore the creative practices of a series of Latin American women artists who, between 1960 and 1990, channeled part of their artistic impetus into printed and serialized media. The time span covered by the exhibition tracks the expansion of the conceptual movement, which began around 1960 and, depending on the geographical contexts, would last until the end of the 1980s. This was the time when artists’ books and other printed matter joined the list of new formats – installation, video, performance… – that were beginning to spread beyond the classic artistic genres and widen the field of possibilities for creators. Off-Register aims to offer an original perspective on artists’ publications created in these decades, focusing on the printed works produced and published by some thirty women artists who originated from or developed their practice in various Latin American countries – Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela – and the Chicano community in the United States.
Category: Events, Talks & Exhibitions
Exhibitions & Events at Poster House
Poster House
119 W. 23rd Street
New York, NY 10011
EXHIBITS
Advertising Type: Women in Digital Design
Apr 27–Nov 5, 2023
The Revolution Will Be Digitized: Typefaces from Emigre & FUSE
Apr 27–Nov 5, 2023
Art Deco: Commercializing the Avant-Garde
Sep 28, 2023–Feb 25, 2024
We Tried to Warn You! Environmental Crisis Posters, 1970–2020
Sep 28, 2023–Feb 25, 2024
Creating Community: Event Posters for AIGA NY
Nov 16, 2023–Apr 14, 2024
Advertising India’s Sandalwood Film Industry
Nov 16, 2023–Apr 14, 2024
Wonder City of the World: New York City Travel Posters
Mar 14–Sep 8, 2024
The Anatomy of a Movie Poster: The Work of Dawn Baillie
Mar 14–Sep 8, 2024
No Escape: The Legacy of Attica Lives!
Apr 25–Nov 3, 2024
Just Frame It: How Nike Turned Sports Stars into Superheroes
Sep 26, 2024–Feb 23, 2025
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Art for the Millions: American Culture and Politics in the 1930s~thru Dec 10
The Met Fifth Avenue
1000 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10028
NY, NJ, CT students: Pay what you wish
The 1930s was a decade of political and social upheaval in the United States, and the art and visual culture of the time reflected the unsettled environment. Americans searched for their cultural identity during the Great Depression, a period marked by divisive politics, threats to democracy, and intensified social activism, including a powerful labor movement. Featuring more than 100 works from The Met collection and several lenders, this exhibition explores how artists expressed political messages and ideologies through a range of media, from paintings, sculptures, prints, and photographs to film, dance, decorative arts, fashion, and ephemera.
Highlights include paintings by Georgia O’Keeffe, Charles Sheeler, and Stuart Davis; prints by Elizabeth Olds, Dox Thrash, and Riva Helfond; photographs by Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange; footage of Martha Graham’s dance Frontier; and more, providing an unprecedented overview of the era’s sociopolitical landscape.
Art Deco: Commercializing the Avant-Garde~thru Feb 2024
The term “Art Deco” did not exist until the 1960s. Prior to that, the geometric, bold, machine-focused style now collectively packaged within that genre was known by many names, representing a variety of regional versions of Modernism. This exhibition chronicles the rise and fall of what would come to be known as Art Deco, starting with the 1925 Paris Exhibition where various factions of the European avant-garde were distilled through commercial endeavors to become the visual language of capitalism, and ending as Deco graphics became more nationalistic in the lead up to World War II.
This exhibition features over 50 posters by enduring masters of graphic design, including A.M. Cassandre, Charles Loupot, Marcello Nizzoli, Jean Dupas, Herbert Matter, Jean Carlu, Paul Colin, René Vincent, Edward McKnight Kauffer, Austin Cooper, Pierre Fix-Masseau, and Joseph Binder.
Give Me a Sign: The Language of Symbols~thru Sept 2024
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
2 EAST 91ST STREET
NEW YORK NY 10128
Students $9
Give Me a Sign: The Language of Symbols examines the fascinating histories behind many of the symbols that instruct, protect, entertain, empower, and connect people. As important communication tools in our daily lives, symbols are constantly evolving based on new needs and users. They formed some of the first written human expressions and today animate our digital chats.
This exhibition marks the 50th anniversary of Henry Dreyfuss’s Symbol Sourcebook: An Authoritative Guide to International Graphic Symbols (1972), a manual that compiled and categorized thousands of symbols in use internationally and helped to elevate the importance of symbols and increase their number in our world. The origin story of the Symbol Sourcebook—told in the exhibition for the first time through primary materials from Cooper Hewitt’s Henry Dreyfuss Archive—has inspired us to look at symbols now and explore their evolution and future.