Join Us Thursday, June 20 at 4 pm ET
At our next PRINT Book Club, Debbie Millman and Steven Heller will chat with PBS’s Antiques Roadshow star, antiques expert, and author Dr. Nicholas D. Lowry alongside Poster House Chief Curator & Director of Content Angelina Lippert. Our discussion will center around Wonder City of the World: New York City Travel Posters, the book accompanying the Poster House exhibition of the same name, on view until September 8.
Wonder City of the World lavishly illustrates 100 years of how New York City was sold to the world with graphic design. Historic posters feature New York City’s iconic skyline, unique architecture, and the charms of its neighborhoods, from Harlem to Coney Island. The art book captures the ever-changing, idealized view of the city alongside essays from Lowry, Lippert, and a host of writers and design experts including Tim Medlund, Catherine Bindman, Colette Gaiter, Jon Key, Jennifer Rittner, and Michele Washington.
Nicholas D. Lowry, (Nicho) was born in New York City into a family of antiquarian book dealers. He is President and Principal Auctioneer of Swann Auction Galleries. He is also the Director of Swann’s Vintage Posters Department. For three decades, Lowry has served as the vintage poster appraiser on the popular PBS television show Antiques Roadshow. He sits on the Advisory Board of Poster House museum and wrote and curated the museum’s current show, “New York – Wonder City of the World.”
Angelina Lippert is the Chief Curator and Director of Content of Poster House. She is the author of The Art Deco Poster and co-author of Wonder City of the World: New York City Travel Posters, and has lectured at SVA, The Cooper Union, NYU, Pratt, the New York Times, and Sotheby’s Institute of Art. She was a recipient of the Emily Hall Tremaine Journalism Fellowship for Curator through Hyperallergic, and has written for The Muse by the Clio Awards as well as the New York Journal of Books.
Don’t miss our conversation with Lowry and Lippert, hosted by Debbie Millman and Steven Heller, on Thursday, June 20 at 4 PM ET! Register for the live stream discussion and buy your copy of Wonder City of the World: New York City Travel Posters.