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Access to the collection descriptions of thousands of libraries and museums, as well as to the means of contacting these archives to arrange visits and order copies.
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Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Avenue
Hours: Tuesday/Thursday, 12 to 5 PM
Appointment required.
Email: robert[at]anthologyfilmarchives[dot]org
E-FLUX Reading Room
41 Essex Street
Hours: Tuesday to Saturday, 12 AM to 6 PM
International network reaching over 50,000 visual art professionals daily and distributing information on important contemporary art exhibitions, publications, and symposia.
Electronic Arts Intermix
525 West 22nd Street, 5th Floor
Hours: Monday to Friday, 11 AM to 5 PM
Appointment required.
Email: info[at]eai[dot]org
Catalogue: Search EAI
Frick Art Reference Library
10 East 71st Street
Hours: Monday to Friday, 10 AM to 5 PM; Saturday (September to May), 9:30 AM to 1 PM
Email: library[at]frick[dot]org
Catalogue: FRESCO
Guggenheim Museum Library and Archives
345 Hudson Street
Hours: Tuesday/Friday, 10:30 AM to 5:30 PM
Open to established scholars and doctoral candidates by appointment; application required.
Email: archives[at]guggenheim[dot]org
Catalogue: Archive Finding Aid
International Center for Photography Library/Archives
1114 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd
Hours: Monday to Thursday, 10 AM to 7 PM; Friday, 10 AM to 6 PM
Appointment required.
Email: library@icp.org/collections@icp.org
Catalogue: ICP Library
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson Library
Main entrance at Fifth Avenue and 82nd Street
Researchers may use the Watson Library without paying Museum admission; to do so they must request a pass at the Reception Desk.
Hours: Tuesday to Thursday, 9:30 AM to 5:15 PM; Friday, 9:30 AM to 6 PM (paging until 4 PM); Saturday, 10 AM to 2 PM (paging until 1:30 PM)
Catalogue: WATSONLINE
Morgan Library & Museum Reading Room
225 Madison Avenue
Hours: Monday to Friday, 9:30 AM to 4 PM
Appointment and application required.
Catalogue: CORSAIR
Museum of Modern Art
MoMA Library Manhattan
4 West 54 Street
Hours: Wednesday/Thursday/Friday, 11 AM to 5 PM
Appointment required.
MoMA Library QNS
45-20 33 Street, Long Island City
Hours: Monday, 11 AM to 5 PM
Appointment required.
Catalogue: DADABASE
MoMA Archives/Primary Source Collections
Manhattan Hours: Thursday/Friday, 1 PM to 5 PM
QNS Hours: Monday, 1 PM to 5 PM
Appointment and application required.
Catalogue: Finding aids and online collections
MoMA Circulating Film + Video Library
Over 1,200 titles covering the history of film from the 1890s to present, including an important collection of work by leading video artists.
Email: circfilm[at]moma[dot]org
New York Public Library
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
The Miriam + Ira D. Wallach Division of Art
Prints and Photographs, Art + Architecture Collection
5th Avenue and 42nd Street
Hours: Monday/Thursday/Friday/Saturday, 10 AM to 6 PM; Tuesday/Wednesday, 10 AM to 7:30 PM
Catalogue: NYPL
Smithsonian Archives of American Art
New York Research Center
1285 Avenue of the Americas (Lobby Level)
Hours: Monday to Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM
Email: weinerj[at]si[dot]edu
Catalogue: Search collections and guides
Highlights: Leo Castelli Gallery Records
