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Art Institute of Chicago

The Art Institute of Chicago publishes an open, REST + Elasticsearch-style Public API for ~120,000 artworks plus agents (artists/makers), places, galleries, exhibitions, tours, mobile sounds, museum-shop products, publications, sections, sites, educator resources, digital and printed publications, and static archive images. Most data is CC0 1.0; descriptions and place data are CC-BY 4.0. No API key required; anonymous limit is 60 requests/minute per IP. Clients should send an AIC-User-Agent header for courtesy tracking. The canonical aggregator (Laravel) is open source on GitHub, and nightly bulk data dumps are published in a sibling repo.

agent aware

Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Art Institute of Chicago the way a machine reads it — 107 machine-readable artifacts across 39 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Art Institute of Chicago scores 32.3/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 22/100 (agent aware). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-08-17 · rubric v0.11.0
Composite quality — 32.3/100 · thin
Contract Quality 17.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.4 / 20
Commercial Clarity 4.2 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Governance 7.0 / 12
Discoverability 5.7 / 10
Regulatory · Government & Public Sector 3.1 / 15
Agent readiness — 22/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract derived 2.5 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling documented 3.5 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
Art Institute of Chicago Kin Score — API readiness rating by API Evangelist

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How we profile Art Institute of Chicago

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Art Institute of Chicago. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 39

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

IIIF Image API

IIIF Image API 2.0-compliant service for delivering image binaries for artworks. Combine artwork.image_id with config.iiif_url returned by the Public API.

Bulk Data Dumps

Nightly data dumps of the collection and related resources, published as JSON in a public GitHub repository. Recommended for bulk consumers instead of scraping the API.

Art Institute of Chicago Agent Roles API

Roles agents can play in relation to an artwork.

Art Institute of Chicago Agent Types API

Classifications of agents (Individual, Corporate, etc.).

Art Institute of Chicago Agents API

People and organizations (artists, makers, donors) associated with artworks.

Art Institute of Chicago Articles API

Magazine-style articles published by the museum.

Art Institute of Chicago Artists API

Convenience alias for agents flagged as artists.

Art Institute of Chicago Artwork Date Qualifiers API

Date qualifier terms used on artworks.

Art Institute of Chicago Artwork Place Qualifiers API

Place qualifier terms used on artworks.

Art Institute of Chicago Artwork Types API

Classification of artwork types (Painting, Sculpture, etc.).

Art Institute of Chicago Artworks API

Artworks from the Art Institute of Chicago collection (~120,000 records).

Art Institute of Chicago Category Terms API

Subject, department and style category terms.

Art Institute of Chicago Digital Publication Articles API

Articles inside digital publications.

Art Institute of Chicago Digital Publications API

Online scholarly publications and catalogues.

Art Institute of Chicago Educator Resources API

Lesson plans and resources for educators.

Art Institute of Chicago Event Occurrences API

Scheduled occurrences of an event.

Art Institute of Chicago Event Programs API

Recurring program series the events belong to.

Art Institute of Chicago Events API

Public events at the museum.

Art Institute of Chicago Exhibitions API

Past, current and upcoming exhibitions.

Art Institute of Chicago Galleries API

Galleries inside the Art Institute of Chicago museum.

Art Institute of Chicago Generic Pages API

Generic landing-style pages.

Art Institute of Chicago Highlights API

Curated highlight items from the collection.

Art Institute of Chicago Hours API

Museum opening hours.

Art Institute of Chicago Images API

Image assets (delivered via IIIF for binary data).

Art Institute of Chicago Landing Pages API

Top-level landing pages of artic.edu.

Art Institute of Chicago Mobile Sounds API

Audio tour stops and mobile-app sound content.

Art Institute of Chicago Places API

Geographic places linked to artworks (uses Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names).

Art Institute of Chicago Press Releases API

Official press releases from the museum.

Art Institute of Chicago Products API

Items for sale in the museum shop.

Art Institute of Chicago Publications API

All museum publications (combined index).

Art Institute of Chicago Search API

Cross-resource Elasticsearch-style search.

Art Institute of Chicago Sections API

Sections of online publications and catalogues.

Art Institute of Chicago Sites API

Microsites and online sites published by the museum.

Art Institute of Chicago Sounds API

Sound assets and metadata.

Art Institute of Chicago Static Pages API

Static content pages of artic.edu.

Art Institute of Chicago Texts API

Long-form text content.

Art Institute of Chicago Tours API

Curated multi-stop museum tours.

Art Institute of Chicago Videos API

Video assets and metadata.

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Open Collections 39

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

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Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Art Institute Of Chicago Context

29 classes · 4 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

Art Institute of Chicago API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

Art Institute of Chicago API Rules

11 rules · 7 errors · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 7

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Agent

15 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Artwork

98 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Exhibition

25 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Gallery

14 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Place

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Product

19 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Tour

17 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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JSON Structure 7

JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

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Examples 8

Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

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Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Art Institute Of Chicago Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Art Institute Of Chicago Agentic Access

103 operations

103 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Art Institute of Chicago — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Company 1

The organization behind the API

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Where this information came from

This is an independent, third-party profile of Art Institute of Chicago, published by API Evangelist. We do not operate, host, resell, or support these APIs, and we are not affiliated with or endorsed by the company unless stated above. Everything here is built from publicly available information — the company's own site, developer portal, documentation, public repositories, and the specifications it publishes for public use. Nothing is obtained by breaching a system, defeating an access control, or using credentials.

The Kin Score and Agent Readiness rating are independently calculated assessments of a company's public API artifacts, scored against a published rubric. They are not certifications, endorsements, security assessments, or audits.

Corrections, re-scores, and removal are free — no partnership or purchase required, and you do not need to justify the request. A removed company is recorded as unrated, never scored zero for having asked. Acknowledgement within one business day; removal within two.

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