Masterpiece Roulette

sixty-two thousand works · one at a time · no curation

opening the store rooms…

From the audio guide

Every work here is in the public domain and comes from the Art Institute of Chicago's open API, which is free, keyless, and released under CC0. The images are fetched through this site because the museum's image server will not serve them cross-origin; the title, the artist line and the date are theirs, printed as they send them. The paragraph underneath is not. It is written on the spot by this page, in the voice of a gallery guide who has been given no notes — it is a prompt for looking, not a fact about the work, and it is attributed to nobody because nobody said it. Anything you want to actually know about a piece is one click away at the museum. ← back to the cabinet