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api.artic.edu

The Art Institute of Chicago's collection: artworks, artists and exhibitions with IIIF image references.

Capabilities (10)

GET /v1/data/artic/artist1 credit

Returns one artist (agent) record: preferred and alternate names, birth and death dates, nationality and a free-text biography.

idfields?
GET /v1/data/artic/artist-search1 credit

Full-text search over the 15k artist records, returning scored matches with the agent id and display name.

qlimit?from?fields?
GET /v1/data/artic/artwork1 credit

Returns the full catalogue record for one artwork: title, artist, date, medium, dimensions, provenance, exhibition history, colour/thumbnail data and the image_id used to build IIIF image URLs.

idfields?include?
GET /v1/data/artic/artworks1 credit

Returns a paged list of artwork records in collection order, with a pagination block giving total, limit, offset and next_url.

page?limit?fields?ids?include?
GET /v1/data/artic/exhibition1 credit

Returns one exhibition record: title, status, run dates, department, gallery and the ids of the artworks shown in it.

idfields?
GET /v1/data/artic/exhibitions1 credit

Returns a paged list of Art Institute exhibitions going back decades, each with title, status, start and end dates, gallery and linked artwork ids.

page?limit?fields?ids?
GET /v1/data/artic/exhibition-search1 credit

Full-text search over exhibition titles and descriptions, returning scored matches with the exhibition id and title.

qlimit?from?fields?
GET /v1/data/artic/galleries1 credit

Returns the museum's 179 physical galleries with number, floor, latitude/longitude and whether the room is currently closed.

page?limit?fields?ids?
GET /v1/data/artic/manifest1 credit

Returns the IIIF Presentation 2.1 manifest for one artwork - the canvases, image service URLs and metadata needed by any IIIF viewer.

id
GET /v1/data/artic/search1 credit

Full-text search across the artwork catalogue, returning scored matches with id, title and thumbnail plus a pagination block with the total hit count.

qlimit?from?fields?sort?query?size?

Licence

The Art Institute publishes its collection metadata under CC0; artwork images carry their own rights statement, given per record.

https://api.artic.edu/docs/#conditions

Attribution

Display this wherever you show the data. It arrives on every response as provenance.attribution_text.

Source: Art Institute of Chicago

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