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. General Electric GE90-115B fanblade, on display at MOMA. The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan in New York City. ... On the western edge of Grant Park in Chicago, Illinois, is the Art Institute of Chicago, one of the premier art museums and schools in the United States, known especially for the extensive collection of impressionist and American art in its museum. ... One of the most celebrated art museums in the country, the Walker Art Center is known for commissioning and presenting innovative contemporary art; fostering the cross-pollination of the visual, performing, and media arts; and engaging diverse audiences in the excitement of the creative process. ... The Guggenheim Museum refers to any of several museums worldwide created and run by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. ... The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (or SFMOMA) is a major modern art museum and San Francisco landmark. ...

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. The East Building of the National Gallery of Art The National Gallery of Art is an art museum managed by the government of the United States but privately owned, although it functions as a public institution. ... Richard James Tuttle (born 12 July 1941 in Rahway, New Jersey) is an American minimalist artist known for his small, subtle, intimate works. ... Joel Sternfeld, born in 1944 in New York City, is a color photographer who takes large-format documentary pictures of the United States, among other things. ... Biography: Doug Aitken, a visual artist, was born in 1968, Redondo Beach, California. ... Architecture for Humanity is a 501c3 non-profit organization founded in 1999 to promote architectural and design solutions to global, social and humanitarian crises and provide design services to communities in need. ...