Art Institute of Chicago
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Museum collection data for 130,000+ artworks — artists, mediums, dates, and IIIF images.
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curl -s -A 'WildAPIsResearch/0.1 (+https://wildapis.com)' 'https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks?limit=1'
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Free for anyone, no key required; anonymous requests are capped at 60 a minute per IP, and the museum's engineering team can raise that on request.
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