Sources and licences

Museums

Articious shows works from museums that publish their collections for anyone to use. An image is shown only where the museum has marked the work as free to use; other works appear without one, with a link to the museum.

• Museum

  Art Institute of Chicago

  What is used

  Catalogue data, descriptions, and images of works in the public domain, from the museum's public API.

  Terms

  Data and images: CC0 1.0. Descriptions: CC BY 4.0, © Art Institute of Chicago.

• Museum

  The Cleveland Museum of Art

  What is used

  Catalogue data, descriptions, and images of works the museum marks CC0, from its Open Access API.

  Terms

  CC0 1.0.

Titles, dates and other facts are shown as the museums give them. The guides are new texts written from the museums' descriptions: where a description is shortened, translated or retold, the result is ours, and so is any mistake in it. Articious is not affiliated with these museums.

Guides

• A guide is written by an AI model from the museum's description of the work and its catalogue data, for a listener who knows more or less about art and wants to hear more or less.
• It is read aloud by a synthetic voice.
• The titles of works in Korean and Spanish are translated by an AI model too.
• A guide is made the first time someone asks for it, and kept for everyone after that.
• The models are, at present, from Anthropic, Google and Microsoft, reached through OpenRouter.
• Guides can contain mistakes. The museum's own page, linked from each work, is the authority.

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