Shepard Fairey likes to describe his politically charged posters, paintings, and murals as “propaganda,” but propagation, by any means necessary, plays an equally important role in the Los Angeles ...

Around Christmas in 1894, the actress Sarah Bernhardt called Maurice de Brunhoff, the manager of Lemercier, a publishing company in Paris that produced her promotional posters. Bernhardt was one of ...

WHAT: "Divan Japonais," a popular advertising poster designed by French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, brought $40,000 when it sold at Swann Galleries in New York this summer. Made in 1893, the ...

For lovers of vintage books and periodicals, “The Art of the Literary Poster” celebrates a vibrant niche in late-19th-century advertising. By Leah Greenblatt When you purchase an independently ...

Sarah Stocking has been selling European and American posters dating from 1890 to 1940 on San Francisco's Jackson Square for seven years. Before that, she sold posters for a decade in Berkeley.

When Gail Anderson (BFA 1984 Media Arts), chair of BFA Advertising and BFA Design and creative director of SVA’s in-house design studio, the Visual Arts Press, reached out to BFA Comics and BFA ...

For Cuba, the year 1959 began with a feverish optimism: Out with the dictator, in with the revolutionaries. Though what followed would be decades of volatile foreign affairs and a strained ...

An exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario shows how magicians enticed audiences with advertisements of levitations, decapitations and other deceptions Brigit Katz - Correspondent At the turn of the ...

A former park ranger has been searching for decades for an original copy of a historic WPA poster for Great Smoky Mountains National Park.