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Conserving Stained-Glass Records at Corning Museum
The Corning Museum of Glass library is to start unfurling about 7,000 drawings and paintings from the Whitefriars stained-glass factory; a black film poster collection is for sale.
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Jolly Old Elf Behaving Badly
Illustrators and designers offer different takes on the antihero of “The SantaLand Diaries” for posters promoting regional stage productions.
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Posters: The Fine Art of Selling Theater
A look at six theater posters from 2014 that demonstrated a keen sense of both style and salesmanship.
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Should I Respond to My Mechanic’s Racist Poster?
The Ethicists consider when and how to call out another person’s prejudice.
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Seeing the Power of Political Posters
Two exhibitions explore the history of activist media, or as one show frames it, how political messages went viral before the Internet.
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Dark Shades for a Children’s ‘Hamlet’
A look at David Habben’s dark artwork for a production of the Shakespeare tragedy at the Utah Children’s Theater.
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When Airlines Looked Cool and Showed It
A conversation with Matthias C. Hühne, the author of “Airline Visual Identity, 1945-1975,” a collection of hundreds of vivid and colorful posters from the golden age of flying.
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Designing Arthur Miller: Simple Gestures, Big Ideas
On the centennial of Mr. Miller’s birth, a look at how designers are capturing the powerful spirit of his plays with simplicity and brawn.
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Selling ‘China Doll’: An Image Ready for Takeoff
Vinny Sainato of the advertising agency Serino/Coyne talks about promotional artwork that was considered for this play starring Al Pacino.
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What Happens When Bart Simpson Meets ‘Mr. Burns’
A look at how Bart Simpson’s hair takes center stage in a poster for a production of “Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play” in Kansas City, Mo.
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The Eyes Have It in ‘Little Erik’
Kids keep it creepy in the poster for an adaptation of Ibsen’s “Little Eyolf” at the Aurora Theater Company in Berkeley, Calif.
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Hot or Not: How to Sell ‘Sex With Strangers’
A look at art for six productions of Laura Eason’s play, with rankings of where they fall on a steamy scale.
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China’s ‘Dangerous Love’ Campaign, Warning of Spies, Is Met With Shrugs
Posters around Beijing are warning young women that handsome foreigners wooing them may be spies, but many seem unconvinced.
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‘Death & Harry Houdini’ Makes Art Out of Magic and Mayhem
A look at poster art for the music-and-magic show at the House Theater of Chicago.
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Posters in Pakistan Urge a General to Take Control of the Government
The signs, placed by Move On Pakistan, call on the popular general Raheel Sharif to take over for an increasingly unpopular prime minister.
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Unearthing China’s Past at a Market Whose Raffish Air Is a Selling Point
Collectors of rare books and posters find gems in Panjiayuan’s ramshackle alleyways, or make discoveries in its more exclusive little shops.
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Five Things T Editors Are Really Into Right Now
A by-no-means exhaustive list of items we like, including not-dorky boat shoes, super soft T-shirts and a poster of trash.
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A poster for the movie “Arrival” depicts an otherworldly craft above Hong Kong’s harbor, but it’s the tower in the foreground that’s really out of place.
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Mom’s a Corpse. Dad Looks Mad. At Least the Light Is Nice.
The artist Gabe Leonard talks about a painting he created for a poster promoting the Los Angeles production of the play “Mom’s Dead.”
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Taking It to the Street With Jenny Holzer
The posters this artist plastered all over New York represent a pre-Facebook era of political statement; some 100 of them will be shown at Alden Projects.
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