Open Access

On May 11, 2021, the Whitney Museum of American published its first open access datasets, available under a Creative Commons CC0 license. The Museum also provides access to much of our public data through an API (application programming interface).

Read more about open access at the Whitney.


Open access datasets

The Museum publishes updated open access datasets each night, in easily digestible CSV format on our GitHub. These datasets include the majority of artist and artwork information available on the Museum's online collection.

View on GitHub


Public API

Our API provides realtime access to much of our public data. This includes artists and works from our online collection, and exhibitions and events. Data is most complete for more current records, with more limited information available pre-internet.

View API documentation

On the Hour

A 30-second online art project:
Maya Man, A Realistic Day In My Life Living In New York City

Learn more about this project

Learn more at whitney.org/artport

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