Hasta La Ideas

“In any other country, Milton Glaser would have been knighted by now,” says Steven Heller (himself deserving of a life peerage). The School of Visual Arts is doing the next best thing—at least until Queen Elizabeth wises up—and mounting a retrospective of nearly 100 works created by Glaser for the College, where he has been on the faculty since 1960 and currently serves as acting chairman. Opening August 31, “Milton Glaser’s SVA: A Legacy of Graphic Design” is curated by Heller and Mirko Ilić. The dynamic duo, along with archivist Beth Kleber, have scoured SVA’s Milton Glaser Design Study Center and Archives to assemble works ranging from the original artwork for the iconic posters created for SVA’s ongoing subway campaign to rare printed pieces such as the 1963 announcement for the course Glaser taught at SVA with the late Henry Wolf. And look sharp for the new poster Glaser has produced for this exhibition that was inspired by his recent foray into designing textiles for the soon-to-be completed SVA Theatre. “I believe the work I’ve done for the School is more adventuresome than anything else I’ve done, primarily because of the audience,” Glaser has said. The retrospective will be on view at the Visual Arts Gallery through September 26.

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