The ART MAP Journal

Stories from the live art graph

Provenance, thefts, attributions — and what it takes to answer “can I see it?” honestly.

How it works

Where Our Data Comes From

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

16 August 2026 · 7 min read

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 read

How it works

What We Mean When We Say “On View”

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

14 August 2026 · 6 min read

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 read

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 MAP marks the works the only honest way: location unknown.

10 August 2026 · 5 min read