- Leonardo da Vinci, the anatomy of man : drawings from the collection of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, by Martin Clayton ; with commentaries on anatomy by Ron Philo
- The great bronze age of China, an exhibition from the People's Republic of China, edited by Wen Fong ; introductory essays by Ma Chengyuan [and others] ; catalogue by Robert W. Bagley, Jenny F. So, Maxwell K. Hearn
- Miró, from earth to sky, edited by Gisela Fischer and Jean-Louis Prat ; with contributions by Gisela Fischer, Joan Miró, Jean-Louis Prat and Joan Punyet Miró
- Black Power 50, edited by Sylviane A. Diouf and Komozi Woodard
- Lewis and Clark, across the divide, Carolyn Gilman ; introduction by James P. Ronda
- Keith Haring, the political line, by Dieter Buchhart, Julian Cox, Robert Farris Thompson, Julia Gruen, Glenn O'Brien, Julian Myers-Szupinska, Tony Shafrazi, Carlo McCormick, and Giorgio Verzotti
- Pompeii and the Roman villa, art and culture around the Bay of Naples, Carol C. Mattusch
- Splendors of Versailles, presented by the Mississippi Commission for International Cultural Exchange, Inc. and Musée National des Chateaux de Versailles et de Trianon ; Claire Constans and Xavier Salmon, editors ; Jean-Marc Manaï, photographer
- Hopper drawing, Carter E. Foster ; with contributions by Daniel S. Palmer [and others]
- From the ocean of painting, India's popular paintings, 1589 to the present, Barbara Rossi ; with contributions by Roy C. Craven, Jr. and Stuart Cary Welch
- How to read Chinese paintings, Maxwell K. Hearn
- Jean-Michel Basquiat, by Richard Marshall ; with essays by Dick Hebdige [and others]
- The ceramic presence in modern art, selections from the Linda Leonard Schlenger Collection and the Yale University Art Gallery, Sequoia Miller ; with an essay by John Stuart Gordon
- Exposed, voyeurism, surveillance, and the camera since 1870, edited by Sandra S. Phillips ; essays by Simon Baker [and others]
- Recasting the past, collecting and presenting antiquities at the Art Institute of Chicago, Karen Manchester ; with an essay by Karen B. Alexander
- Scandinavian modern design, 1880-1980, Cooper-Hewitt Museum ; David Revere McFadden, general editor
- Artist & alphabet, twentieth century calligraphy and letter art in America, curated by Jerry Kelly & Alice Koeth with an introduction by Donald Jackson
- Masters of British painting, 1800-1950,, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in collaboration with the City Art Museum of St. Louis and the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco., Andrew Carnduff Ritchie [director of the exhibition
- Alexander Calder, performing sculpture, edited by Achim Borchardt-Hume ; with contributions by Ann Coxon, Penelope Curtis, Marko Daniel, Thomas Fichter, Sérgio B. Martins, Vassilis Oikonomopoulos, Alexander S.C. Rower, Alex J. Taylor
- Carl Andre, sculpture as place, 1958-2010, Philippe Vergne and Yasmil Raymond ; texts by Christophe Cherix, Manuel Cirauqui, Brooke Holmes, Vincent Katz, Marjorie Perloff, Arnauld Pierre, Yasmil Raymond, Alistair Rider, Anne Rorimer, Phyllis Tuchman, Philippe Vergne, and Mika Yoshitake
- Light show
- Pop art, contemporary perspectives : Princeton University Art Museum, preface by John Wilmerding ; introduction by Hal Foster ; essays by Johanna Burton [and others]
- Titian, edited by Giovanni Carlo Federico Villa
- George Washington--the man behind the myths, William M.S. Rasmussen and Robert S. Tilton
- Marisol, sculptures and works on paper, Marina Pacini ; essays by Bill Anthes, Dore Ashton, Deborah Cullen, and Douglas Dreishpoon
- Only skin deep, changing visions of the American self, edited by Coco Fusco and Brian Wallis
- Calder and abstraction, from avant-garde to iconic, edited by Stephanie Barron and Lisa Gabrielle Mark ; with essays by Stephanie Barron, Ilene Susan Fort, Aleca Le Blanc, Jed Perl, Harriet F. Senie ; exhibition organized by Stephanie Barron
- The Smithsonian's History of America in 101 Objects, Richard Kurin
- Augustus F. Sherman, Ellis Island portraits, 1905-1920, historical essay by Peter Mesenhöller
- Committed to the image, contemporary black photographers, edited by Barbara Head Millstein ; with essays by Clyde Taylor, Deba P. Patnaik
- Hide/Seek, difference and desire in American portraiture, Jonathan D. Katz and David C. Ward ; Jennifer Sichel, research assistant
- Diane Arbus, revelations
- The Ancient Americas, art from sacred landscapes, Richard F. Townsend, general editor ; with essays by Anthony F. Aveni [and others]
- Animals in photographs, Arpad Kovacs
- Celebrating Inuit art, 1948-1970, edited by Maria von Finckenstein ; foreword by Adrienne Clarkson ; essays by James Houston and Ann Meekitjuk Hanson
- The Royal Collection, paintings from Windsor Castle, introduction by Christopher Lloyd ; catalogue by Mark Evans
- Degas, a strange new beauty, Jodi Hauptman ; with essays by Carol Armstrong [and 11 others]
- African American art, Harlem Renaissance, civil rights era, and beyond, Richard J. Powell and Virginia M. Mecklenburg ; with contributions by Maricia Battle
- Olmec, colossal masterworks of ancient Mexico, edited by Kathleen Berrin and Virginia M. Fields
- Joseph Cornell and surrealism, edited by Matthew Affron and Sylvie Ramond
- The art of assemblage
- "Great and mighty things", outsider art from the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz Collection, edited by Ann Percy ; with Cara Zimmerman ; contributions by Francesco Clemente, Lynne Cooke, Joanne Cubbs, Bernard L. Herman, Ann Percy, Colin Rhodes, and Cara Zimmerman
- George Bellows, Charles Brock, Sean Wilentz, Marianne Doezema, David Peters Corbett, Sarah Newman, Carol Troyen, David Park Curry, Sarah Cash, Melissa Wolfe, Robert Conway, Mark Cole, Glenn C. Peck
- Vik Muniz, seeing is believing, [essays by Charles Ashley Stainback and Mark Alice Durant]
- Fra Angelico to Leonardo, Italian Renaissance drawings, Hugo Chapman and Marzia Faietti
- A century of African American art, the Paul R. Jones collection, edited by Amalia K. Amaki
- Delacroix and the rise of modern art, Patrick Noon and Christopher Riopelle
- Surreal things, Surrealism and design, edited by Ghislaine Wood
- The visual blues, edited by Natalie A. Mault ; essays by R.A. Lawson, John Lowe, Natalie A. Mault, Margaret Rose Vendryes ; with artist biographies by Lauren Barnett and Natalie A. Mault
- Faking it, manipulated photography before Photoshop, Mia Fineman