William L. Carqueville, "Lippincott's, April" (1895), 19 x 12 7/16 inches, Leonard A. Lauder Collection of American Posters (all images courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art) Deceptively niche as it ...

Organic, sinuous lines, with vines snaking around stylized letters, ethereal women with flowing tresses, and botanical borders characterize the style of Art Nouveau, the enduringly popular movement ...

Alphonse Mucha, “Sarah Bernhardt/La Plume” (1896) (All images by the author for Hyperallergic) The United States has niche museums for almost every subject, from trains and boats, to UFOs and ...

When Vancouver Opera had to move in the early 1980s, they downsized by throwing out old promotional material. “I thought ‘they can’t go in the garbage,’ so I fished them out, put them in the trunk of ...