ART WIKI’s journal

Mesterværkernes selskabsliv

Om proveniens, tilskrivning og tyveri, og om hvorfor et ærligt svar på »Må man se det?« kræver mere arbejde, end man skulle tro. En hel del mere.

How it works

Where Our Data Comes From

No scraping, no guessing: ART WIKI is built on museums' own open-access APIs, public-domain imagery, and editorial records that cite their sources. A tour of the workshop.

16. august 2026 · 7 min. læsning

Can I see it?

Five Vermeers, One Room

Of the roughly 34 surviving paintings by Johannes Vermeer, five hang in a single gallery in New York. It is the densest concentration of Vermeer on Earth — and you can walk in today.

15. august 2026 · 4 min. læsning

How it works

What We Mean When We Say “On View”

Every green badge on ART WIKI is a claim with a source and a timestamp behind it. Here is the honesty contract, in full.

14. august 2026 · 6 min. læsning

Can I see it?

Why the Bedroom You Can See Today Is in Chicago

Van Gogh painted his Arles bedroom three times. One hangs in Amsterdam, one in Paris — and the one confirmed on view right now is in Gallery 241 of the Art Institute of Chicago.

12. august 2026 · 4 min. læsning

Provenance

The Empty Frames of the Gardner Museum

Thirty-six years after the largest art theft in history, the frames still hang where the paintings should be — and ART WIKI marks the works the only honest way: location unknown.

10. august 2026 · 5 min. læsning