Permanent Collections

The largest maps in the world are to be found in the floor of the Citizens' Hall, in the heart of the Royal Palace Amsterdam. The three circular mosaics, each measuring over six metres in diameter, together depict the known world and the night sky. They...

Through a decade of friendship, sharing the same environs and being active collectors, Sonja Graber and Christian Graber are inextricably connected to the photographer Annelies Strba, the jewellery and object artist Bernhard Schobinger and the painter...

This beautiful volume documents a historic gift of contemporary art from the Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Collection to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The gift, comprising nearly 100 works, includes masterpieces by luminaries such as Ellsworth Kelly and...

100 Treasures / 100 Emotions celebrates the inauguration of the Macquarie University History Museum Sydney, NSW, Australia. This entirely new volume focuses on 100 works from a vast collection of 15,000 objects, to highlight the new museum's focus on...

The grid often hides in plain sight, from notepads and spreadsheets to halftone photographic reproductions. It dominates the organisation, perception, and representation of the modern world, especially in print. Deeply embedded in a Western worldview,...

Founded in 1804, the New-York Historical Society is New York City's oldest museum, with a rich history of scholarship, research, and illuminating exhibitions. The museum collection of the New-York Historical Society comprises more than 1.6 million works...

AGO's collection of close to 95,000 works ranges from cutting-edge contemporary art such as Untilled (Liegender Frauenakt) by Pierre Huyghe to European masterpieces such as Peter Paul Ruben's The Massacre of the Innocents; from the vast collection by the...

Patterns resonate and reveal themselves in this unique photographic essay featuring objects from the six museums associated with the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture (HMSC). The museums' encyclopaedic collections hold great significance in...

An authoritative new volume cataloguing the German paintings before 1800 in the collection of the National Gallery, London This fully illustrated catalogue presents the most up-to-date research on the seventy-five paintings in the National Gallery...

Home to a world-renowned collection of paintings, sculpture, photographs, and works on paper, the National Gallery of Art has captivated visitors for over eighty years. Spanning centuries of human creativity and crossing a wide range of mediums, this...

One of the greatest Netherlandish painters of the sixteenth century, Pieter Bruegel the Elder (ca. 1525 1569) is best known for his landscapes and peasant scenes. One of only three signed works by Bruegel in the United States, The Three Soldiers was once...

Highlighting 52 significant masterpieces, this elegant card deck is a unique way to enjoy and learn about the world-renowned works of the great master artists. The Musee du Louvre, the museum that inhabits the Louvre Palace, is the world s largest and...

This book showcases fifty paintings, sculptures, works on paper, photographs, and more from the National Gallery of Art. Selected from more than 150,000 works in the museum s vast collection, these remarkable examples of European and American art span...

With a presentation that divides the book into two equal parts, A Tale of Two Balconies investigates the elements that make each of these artworks-both in the collection of the National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution-unique. Exploring the...

Chrysler Museum of Art’s expansive collection contains more than 30,000 historical objects from across the globe. This compelling new guide offers a snapshot of the collection through 40 key works consistently on view in the museum’s galleries in...