Art Institute of Chicago
ReferenceUSapi.artic.edu
The Art Institute of Chicago's collection: artworks, artists and exhibitions with IIIF image references.
Capabilities (10)
GET /v1/data/artic/artist1 creditReturns one artist (agent) record: preferred and alternate names, birth and death dates, nationality and a free-text biography.
GET /v1/data/artic/artist-search1 creditFull-text search over the 15k artist records, returning scored matches with the agent id and display name.
GET /v1/data/artic/artwork1 creditReturns 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.
GET /v1/data/artic/artworks1 creditReturns a paged list of artwork records in collection order, with a pagination block giving total, limit, offset and next_url.
GET /v1/data/artic/exhibition1 creditReturns one exhibition record: title, status, run dates, department, gallery and the ids of the artworks shown in it.
GET /v1/data/artic/exhibitions1 creditReturns a paged list of Art Institute exhibitions going back decades, each with title, status, start and end dates, gallery and linked artwork ids.
GET /v1/data/artic/exhibition-search1 creditFull-text search over exhibition titles and descriptions, returning scored matches with the exhibition id and title.
GET /v1/data/artic/galleries1 creditReturns the museum's 179 physical galleries with number, floor, latitude/longitude and whether the room is currently closed.
GET /v1/data/artic/manifest1 creditReturns the IIIF Presentation 2.1 manifest for one artwork - the canvases, image service URLs and metadata needed by any IIIF viewer.
GET /v1/data/artic/search1 creditFull-text search across the artwork catalogue, returning scored matches with id, title and thumbnail plus a pagination block with the total hit count.
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/#conditionsAttribution
Display this wherever you show the data. It arrives on every response as provenance.attribution_text.
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