ART WIKI 专栏

名作起居注

谈来源、归属与失窃，也谈为什么要诚实回答“可否一睹真容？”，比想象中费事得多。多得多。

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.

2026年8月16日 · 阅读约 7 分钟

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.

2026年8月15日 · 阅读约 4 分钟

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.

2026年8月14日 · 阅读约 6 分钟

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.

2026年8月12日 · 阅读约 4 分钟

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.

2026年8月10日 · 阅读约 5 分钟