Press
“Berman’s Book Boom is a Boon to Graphic Design’s Legacy” by Steven Heller. Print Magazine (November 18, 2024), Daily Heller.
“Berman’s Post-Bauhaus Moholy-Nagy” by Steven Heller. Print Magazine (September 4, 2024), Daily Heller.
Nicholas Lowry, “From Antiques Roadshow & Swann Auction Galleries, It Always Comes Back To Vintage Posters,” Collectors Gene Radio (podcast: May 8, 2024) [Listen to the clip here]
Monica Strauss, “Kenner, Kurator, Pädagoge—und Verleger: Wie Merrill C. Berman das Kunstsammeln neu erfindet,” Aufbau: Das jüdische Magazin, vol. 90, no. 5 (October–November 2023): 24–27.
The venerable German-language journal Aufbau (Reconstruction) was founded in New York in 1934 for German-Jewish immigrants. This special issue of the journal, now based in Switzerland, is dedicated to the “Ambassadors of Modernity: Nazi Refugees Who Transformed New York into an Art Metropolis.” It includes articles on Leo Castelli, Otto Kallir, Ronald Lauder, Paul Rosenberg, and Helen Serger, among others. The article on Berman, which reworks the title of MoMA’s 2020–2021 exhibition, can be read in English here: “Connoisseur, Curator, Educator—and Publisher: Merrill C. Berman, The Collector Reinvented.”
“Getty Acquires Historical Prints, Posters, and Other Materials from 20th-Century American Movements” The Getty (October 23, 2023) [PDF]
"How the Black Panther Party Branded Itself" WNYC (March 20, 2023), All Of It.
“Loud and Proud: Black Panther Party Ephemera" by Adlan Jackson. The New Yorker (March 6, 2023), Ephemera Dept.
For more press coverage of Poster House’s Black Power exhibition, click here.
“How Japan Used Poster Design to Reshape its Culture” by Zachary Petit. Fast Company (March 28, 2023)
"Poster House Debuts Major Spring Exhibits" Graphic Design USA (March 3, 2023)
For more press coverage of Poster House’s Made in Japan exhibition, click here.
“Merrill Berman’s Bottomless Pit” by Steven Heller. Print Magazine (May 9, 2022), Daily Heller.
“Merrill C. Berman, Leading Art Collector” Harvard University, Class of 1960 (April, 2022)
“Revisit the Impact of the Humble Poster in ‘Disrupting Design’ at the High” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (March 23, 2022)
“What Are Artists For?” by Peter Schjeldahl. The New Yorker (December 21, 2020), The Art World.
“The Artists Who Redesigned a War-Shattered Europe” by Jason Farago. The New York Times (December 17, 2020), Critic’s Pick.
For more press coverage of MoMA’s Engineer, Agitator, Constructor exhibition, click here.
“Periodicals for Equality and Social Justice” by Steven Heller. Print Magazine (July 9, 2020), Daily Heller.
“2 Art Gallery Shows to Explore From Home” by Will Heinrich. The New York Times (June 10, 2020), Art & Design.
“An American Design Style All Its Own” by Steven Heller. Print Magazine (June 2, 2020), Daily Heller.
“Merrill Berman, From Weimar to Us” by Steven Heller. Print Magazine (May 28, 2020), Daily Heller.
“Youth Style: Austrian and German Posters from the Merrill C. Berman Collection” by Jane Kallir. Galerie St. Etienne (March 18, 2020).
"What Is Graphic Design's Place in an Art Museum" by Margaret Anderson. AIGA Eye on Design (July 22, 2019).
"2017 Art Market Report, A Tale of Two Art Worlds" by Jane Kallir. Galerie St. Etienne (June 13, 2017).
“Seeing the Power of Political Posters” by Martha Schwendener. The New York Times (July 30, 2015), Art Review.
“A Collection of Campaign Mementos, Starting with Washington, Goes to Auction” by Eve M. Kahn. The New York Times (February 13, 2015), Art & Design, Antiques, p. C32.
"The Legendary Merrill C. Berman Political Collection" by Thomas D. Slater. Heritage Auctions (February 2015). [Video]
“Art as Activism: Graphic Art from the Merrill C. Berman Collection” Google Arts & Culture (2015).
“How a Dazzling Visual Barrage Began” by Grace Glueck. The New York Times (April 30, 1999), Art Review.
“A Hard-Edged Zeal in Images of the Avant-Garde” by Ken Johnson. The New York Times (September 4, 1998), Art Review.
"Posters That Once Stirred a Nation" Rita Reif. The New York Times (Febuary 25, 1996), Arts/Artifacts.
“Maverick Collector: The Merrill C. Berman Collection” Denise C. Urell. Affiche, The International Poster Magazine (December 1, 1992).
“On the Campaign Trail” by Rita Reif. The New York Times (September 23, 1984), Antiques View.