Collection

Our collection currently contains more than 100,000 works of art and design dating from ancient times to today. 2,137 of these objects are on view in the museum now. 85,605 of them are available online. There are 2,180 recent acquisitions. All of our collection records are living documents. These records are frequently revised and enhanced.

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An illustration of a dimly lit cafe with chandeliers, a figure in a fur coat sitting alone, distant dancers, and strange, ghostly figures and animals behaving supernaturally upon closer inspection.

Peter Winslow Milton

Interiors IV: Hotel Paradise Café (state 10)

A dreamlike black-and-white scene of musicians submerged in glimmering water fractals, performing in an eerie interior as ghostly figures float nearby and a massive whale’s glowing silhouette looms overhead.

Peter Winslow Milton

Interiors V: Water Music

Peter Winslow Milton

Points of Departure II: Pavane

Xu Baozhong 许宝中

People’s Army’s Party Commander (人民军队党指挥 ren min jun dui dang zhi hui)

Wang zhenyu 王振羽

Reporting to Chairman Hua (向华主席汇报 Xiang Hua zhuxi huibao)

Vintage propaganda poster featuring a smiling woman in an industrial setting with Chinese script meaning ‘Everyone Strives to be a Role Model in the Technological Revolution’ at the bottom.

Pang Liming 庞黎明

Everyone Strives to be a Role Model in the Technological Revolution (人人争当技术革命的标兵 Rén rén zhēng dāng jìshù gé mìng de biāobīng)

Alexis Rockman

Fishes

Edward Grazda

Kabul Afghanistan (woman working at the Foreign Ministry office during the Mujahideen coalition government)

Edward Grazda

Kabul Afghanistan (Foreign Ministry office under Taliban rule)

Edward Grazda

Mazar-i-Sharif Afghanistan (women on the street before Taliban took over Mazar)

Edward Grazda

Kabul Afghanistan (family on Eid morning after defeat of Taliban. First time in years free to wear Western clothes and no burka (note nanny)

Edward Grazda

Tora Bora Afghanistan (Northern Shura soldiers on way to hunt Osama bin Laden)

A black-and-white scene of a blurred cyclist in the foreground rides past a desolate landscape of block-style apartments and a smokestack with power lines stretching across the sky.

Edward Grazda

Mycroyan Apartments Kabul, Afghanistan (housing projects built by the Soviets)

A black-and-white scene of a bullet-riddled pole in the foreground and heavily damaged buildings with crumbling walls and blown out windows in the background.

Edward Grazda

Mycroyan Apartments Kabul, Afghanistan (the apartments were one of the front lines during the civil war (1992-1996)

A group of young teenagers play ball near a pink bullet-scarred wall dominating the right side, with a damaged apartment in the background, set against a dusky blue sky.

Edward Grazda

Kabul Afghanistan (people moving back into Mycroyan apartments)

Mike Kelley

Paddle for Artist's Space

Jean Le Gac

Le Roman d’Aventure (The Adventure Novel)

Jean Le Gac

Le Roman d’Aventure (The Adventure Novel)

Jean Le Gac

Le Roman d’Aventure (The Adventure Novel)

Jean Le Gac

Le Roman d’Aventure (The Adventure Novel)