# Art Institute of Chicago Artwork Search

> Art Institute of Chicago Artwork Search is a paid API for AI agents from proxy.suverse.io, paid per call via x402, $0.065/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Searches the Art Institute of Chicago open-access collection by free-text query and returns ranked artwork matches with IDs and titles.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://proxy.suverse.io/v1/data/suverse-artic-artwork-lookup
- Price: $0.065/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/art-institute-of-chicago-artwork-search-c5d764cc
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_mpaWBxhwK5y6U35kiA5d1

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability art-institute-of-chicago-artwork-search-c5d764cc -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Search the Art Institute of Chicago collection for paintings by Georges Seurat and give me the artwork IDs and titles of the top matches.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to discover artworks in the Art Institute of Chicago collection by artist name, title, or keyword before fetching full artwork detail. It is ideal for preliminary search and ID resolution steps in multi-step art research workflows. Prefer this over direct AIC API calls when using the x402 payment-gated proxy setup.

## Known failure modes

- No results returned for highly specific or misspelled queries
- Query too broad returns large unranked result sets with low relevance
- Underlying AIC API downtime causes proxy errors
- Payment failure due to insufficient USDC balance on x402 protocol
- Empty body or missing query field returns validation error

## How this service works

Search the Art Institute of Chicago collection by free-text query (artist, title, keyword). Returns ranked matches with artwork IDs and titles. Keyless museum open-access API. Useful for finding artworks before fetching full detail.

## Output

A ranked list of artworks from the Art Institute of Chicago collection matching the query, including artwork IDs and titles that can be used to fetch full artwork detail records.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method",
    "bodyType",
    "body"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "body": {
     "properties": {}
    },
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "POST",
      "PUT",
      "PATCH"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "bodyType": {
     "enum": [
      "json",
      "form-data",
      "text"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

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