MoMA The Museum of Modern Art (Venue Partner)
11 W 53rd St
212.708.9400
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Tadeuz Trepkowski, Nie! (Never!), 1952, Courtesy MoMA
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May 6, 2009 – Nov 30, 2009
Mondays (10:30am–5:30pm)
Wednesdays–Thursdays (10:30am–5:30pm)
Fridays (10:30am–8pm)
Saturdays–Sundays (10:30am–5:30pm)
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- Price
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$20
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Bracketed by those historic "falls" in nearby Berlin (of the city itself and, later, its Wall), the Polish Poster School's expressionistic, four-decade heyday — spent hyping opera, concerts, and especially cinema — represents "one of the great secrets of 20th-century pop art." For ingenious designers like Henryk Tomaszewsk, Jan Młodożeniec, and Waldemar Swierzy, the poster became an experimental blank slate rather than some fill-in-the-film template. MoMA's timely exhibition testifies to the movement's revolutionary import: their variously symbolic, typographic, and off-subject compositions transformed war-torn Warsaw into a colorful and playful "street gallery" — one city paper even tallied votes for favorites.
