Great News If You Live In New York City,

or anywhere near it,

and you like posters, especially those of famed Art Nouveau poster designer Alphonse Mucha, above “Sarah Bernhardt/La Plume” (1896), a new museum is opening up, the Poster House in New York City, 

 a exhibition view of Alphonse Mucha: Art Nouveau/Nouvelle Femme, the 15,000 square-foot museum, located on West 23rd Street in Chelsea, Manhattan, includes three exhibition spaces, interactive displays in its hallways, and a children’s area. The new museum already boasts a permanent collection of 7,000 historical posters collected from around the world and 1,000 contemporary posters that will be shown in future exhibitions,

from left to right: Alphonse Mucha’s “Hamlet” (1899); “Medee” (1898); Lorenzaccio (1896), for it's first show the work of Mucha, a Czech painter, illustrator, and graphic artist, will be showcased, he became synonymous with Art Nouveau during his time in Paris in the 1890s. He gained his fame after he started working closely with French actress Sarah Bernhardt on posters for her plays. The posters embodied the proto-feminist ideal of “la Nouvelle Femme,” or “the New Woman,” which challenged patriarchy in Belle Époque Paris in the 19th century and continued to influence women movements into the 20th century,

“Zodiac” (1896), so for all of you culture vultures the Poster House opens June 20 on 119 W. 23rd Street, New York, Alphonse Mucha: Art Nouveau/Nouvelle Femme, 

also exhibiting Designing Through the Wall: Cyan in the 1990s, the exhibition will run from June 20 to October 6th, 2019, both exhibitions are curated by Angelina Lippert, what a great a way to spend a day, I wish I was there.