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Distributed Art Publishers, Inc. is America’s premier source for books on twentieth and twenty-first century art, photography, design and aesthetic culture. Founded in 1990 in downtown New York 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 three decades D.A.P. has grown into a major international distributor 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 Aspen Art Museum; Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum; The Design Museum, London; Glenstone Museum; Guggenheim Museum; Hayward Gallery; Louisiana Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts Boston; MAMCO; Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Portrait Gallery; New Museum; Royal Academy of Art; Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum; Walker Art Center; Warhol Museum and Vitra Design Museum, among many other important museum publishers. D.A.P. is also the exclusive North American distributor for independent publishing programs including Actes Sud; Arquine; Atelier Editions; Badlands; Blank Forms; Bokförlaget Stolpe; Cahiers d’Art; Damiani; DelMonico Books; Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art; Editorial RM; Editions Xavier Barral; Exact Change; Fondation Cartier; FUEL; Gregory R. Miller & Co.; Hatje Cantz; Hauser & Wirth; Heni; The Ice Plant; JRead their story