Street posters are the least curated layer of a city’s visual life — a record of who speaks, how loudly, in what typeface, and to whom.

From municipal light displays to shop windows and ad campaigns, seasonal celebrations redraw the visual codes of public space. A guide to reading the change, and to using it well.

A museum wall is never neutral: curation, lighting, labels and institutional prestige quietly teach us which objects deserve to be called art — and which don’t.