Distributed Art Publishers

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Distributed Art Publishers, Inc./D.A.P. was founded in downtown New York by Sharon Gallagher, in 1990, at a time when fine and sometimes esoteric international art books had a difficult time making their way into the wider American marketplace. Over the past two decades D.A.P. has grown to become the first place that art, design, and media professionals look for the most up-to-date selection of books, special editions, and rare publications from an array of the world's most respected publishers, museums, and cultural institutions.

D.A.P. is the exclusive North American representative of such major American museum publishers as The Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA); The Art Institute of Chicago; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Guggenheim Museum; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among many others. Some of the independent international publishers represented by D.A.P. include Aperture, Hatje Cantz, Charta, Steidl, Actar, Greybull, Exact Change and NAi.

D.A.P. also maintains a small in-house publishing program. Recent co-publications include the colossal exhibition catalogue, Dada: Zurich, Berlin, Hanover, Cologne, New York, Paris, realized in collaboration with the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; and the major monograph, The Art of Richard Tuttle, co-published with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Several outstanding original D.A.P. publications include Joel Sternfeld: American Prospects, Beautiful Losers: Contemporary Art and Street Culture, and Broken Screen: Expanding the Image, Breaking the Narrative: 26 Conversations with Doug Aitken. Together with Metropolis Magazine, D.A.P. co-publishes Metropolis Books, whose recent Design Like You Give a Damn: Architectural Responses to Humanitarian Crises, edited by Architecture for Humanity, has been the subject of many reviews and accolades.