Art History, Art, and Design

This website features more than 83,000 artworks and over 26,000 artists. If you are searching for a particular artist or artwork, it is best to search the collection and filter by date or classification

Search through the Met's extensive art collection. Narrow your search by geographical area, object type or material, artist, date, and more.

Learn more about works that are on view at the Whitney and other works that are part of their collection.

The New Museum believes that contemporary art is a vital social force that advances questioning, learning, and working towards a better society.

In addition to highlights from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, the Collection Online includes works from the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. Browse by artist, date, medium, movement, and venue, or by several of the major groups of acquisitions that have entered the holdings of the foundation since its inception in 1937.

The museum presents work by Latino, Caribbean, and Latin American artists as well as film, performances, lectures, and more.

The International Center of Photography is the world’s leading institution dedicated to photography and visual culture

Dia Art Foundation is committed to advancing, realizing, and preserving the vision of artists. Dia fulfills its mission by commissioning single artist projects, organizing exhibitions, realizing site-specific installations, and collecting in-depth the work of a focused group of artists of the 1960s and 1970s

Since 1961, the American Folk Art Museum has been the leading institution shaping the understanding of art by the self-taught through its exhibitions, publications, and educational programs. As a center of scholarship, it showcases the creativity of individuals whose singular talents have been refined through personal experience rather than formal artistic training. from website

"The Grey Art Gallery, guardian to the New York University Art Collection, was founded in 1975 and includes approximately 5,000 objects. "

Paula Cooper Gallery, the first art gallery in SoHo, opened in 1968 with an exhibition to benefit the Student Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam. . . . For over fifty years, the gallery’s artistic agenda has remained focused on, though not limited to, conceptual and minimal art.

A.I.R. Gallery is an artist-run non-profit arts organization and exhibition space founded in 1972. A.I.R. supports the open exchange of ideas and risk-taking by women and non-binary artists in order to provide support and visibility. A self-directed governing body, the organization is an alternative to mainstream institutions and thrives on the network of active participants.

Founded in December 2001 as an educational corporation and not-for-profit alternative space, PARTICIPANT INC seeks to provide a venue in which artists, curators, and writers can develop, realize, and present ambitious projects within a context that recognizes the social and cultural value of artistic experimentation.

Founded in the East Village in the 1980s, P·P·O·W maintains a diverse roster of national and international artists. Since its inception, the gallery has remained true to its early vision, showing contemporary work in all media.

"Pace is a leading contemporary art gallery representing more than 70 artists and estates, with galleries in New York, London, and Beijing."

"Representing over forty artists and estates, David Zwirner is a contemporary art gallery active in both the primary and secondary markets."

Gladstone is a leading contemporary art gallery with locations in New York, Brussels, and Seoul.

Browse an extensive list of catalog titles from the Getty Institute. Please note that not all titles will be readily accessible through this site, but you can always check to see if we have access through our library catalog, or place a request through ConnectNY or Interlibrary Loan.

Browse a list of exhibition catalog titles from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Some of these titles may be available through Pace Library, but if not you can place an Interlibrary Loan Request.

Search through library catalogs worldwide to find the resources that you need. Use the Advanced Search to search for a specific museum or gallery as an author, or narrow your keyword search to included "exhibition" as well.