Most Black Panther posters—armed figures in berets and leather jackets, often in black-and-white with a single bold color—were printed on the back pages of Panther newspapers. A new exhibition collects the movement’s ephemera.
In 1969, the N.Y.P.D. arrested a group of Black Panther Party members in a series of predawn raids. Twenty-one people were charged with planning bombings across the city and assassinations of police officers. During the many months that the arrested were held, the Panthers fought back, in part, with art—posters, paintings, and flyers. The other day, a curator named Es-pranza Humphrey was inspecting a particularly psychedelic print in a storage room of Poster House, a museum in Chelsea.
Humphrey explained that most Black Panther posters—armed figures in berets and leather jackets, often in black-and-white with a single bold color—were printed on the back pages of Panther newspapers, or individually, to be pasted on telephone poles or pinned to bulletin boards. A black-light poster was rare, and had a different destination. “They’re most popular in head shops, obviously,” Lippert said.
Leonardi, who wore a blue shirt and nitrile gloves, had mounted most of the posters in the show in what he called a “plexiglass sandwich.” “It reminds you that these are things of the street,” Lippert said. To make the posters pop off the wall, Leonardi had devised a mounting system involving two pieces of wood, a table saw, fine sanding, and something called a “rabbet joint.
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