Barack Obama's first hundred days are over but artists are just getting started responding to his administration. While Shepard Fairey's Hope is now iconic, did you know that Obama has teamed up with the Youngblood superhero team? That in comic-land he got drafted to save the post-apocolyptic future? Or that he joined forces with Lycra-clad Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton to vanquish demonized versions of George Bush and Dick Cheney?

The Frick Art Reference Library holds more than 88,000 auction catalogs dating from the seventeenth century to the present. These catalogs are essential for researchers establishing the provenance of an art object. One of the unique holdings of the Frick within this collection is artist atelier auction catalogs. An atelier auction sells the contents of an artist’s studio, usually shortly after his or her death. An example of this type of auction that relates to the collections of NYARC institutions is the atelier sales held in May and June of 1900 at Galerie George Petit, Paris, for the animal painter and sculptor Rosa Bonheur (1822-1899).

WATSONLINE is the online catalog of the libraries of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.  It provides access to bibliographic records for 690,000 volumes, including 14,000 serial titles, 125,000 auction catalogs, and 28,000 vertical files in the collections of the Museum's twenty-six libraries.  WATSONLINE also cites items that are on order or in process, as well as partial holdings of archival collections.

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Arcade is the outcome of a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation that targeted the development of a powerful online catalog to provide a strong foundation for moving ahead on multiple initiatives. Arcade unites the collections of the Frick Art Reference Library and the libraries of the Brooklyn Museum and The Museum of Modern Art, three of the founding members of NYARC.

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The Frick Art Reference Library was established in 1920 by Helen Clay Frick, daughter of Henry Clay Frick, founder of the adjacent museum. Each year the Library serves approximately six thousand individuals with a serious interest in art, primarily scholars, museum and art market professionals, collectors, and graduate students. One of the world’s most valued art research centers for the study of art in the Western tradition, it is also one of the most complete resources for the study of collecting and patronage.