Search the Whitney Museum's online collection of 27,000+ works.

Returns slim records (id, title, artist, date, medium, classification, on view, first image URL). Call whitney_get_artwork for the full record including dimensions, credit line, description and all images.

Args:

• title, artist, medium, date (string, optional): substring matches

• classification (string, optional): exact match, e.g. "Drawings"

• department ('collection' | 'artport' | 'special', optional)

• on_view (boolean, optional)

• sort ('default' | 'title_asc' | 'title_desc' | 'most_viewed' | 'random')

• page (number, default 1), limit (number, 1-30, default 10)

• response_format ('markdown' | 'json', default 'markdown')

Returns: { total, count, page, has_more, next_page?, results[], note? }

Examples:

• "watercolours with flowers in the title" -> title="flower", classification="Drawings", medium="watercolor"

• "show me something at random from the collection" -> sort="random", limit=3

Notes:

• Medium spellings follow US usage ("watercolor", "color").

• Date is free text ("1915-1931, printed 1976-1977"), so filter loosely and check results.

Fetch one artwork's full record by ID.

Args:

• id (string): the artwork's TMS ID, as returned by whitney_search_artworks

• response_format ('markdown' | 'json', default 'markdown')

Returns: { record: { id, title, artist, artist_ids[], date, medium, dimensions, classification, department, accession_number, credit_line, on_view, description, object_label, visual_description, alt_text, images[], page_url } }

Fields are omitted when empty. Alt text is human-written where available and AI-generated otherwise; alt_text_is_ai_generated flags which.

Errors: returns a 404 message if the ID does not exist.

Search the 7,000+ artists listed by the Whitney — those with work in the collection and those who have appeared in Museum exhibitions.

Returns slim records (id, name, dates, in_collection, in_biennial, on_view). Call whitney_get_artist for the biography and authority IDs.

Args:

• name (string, optional): substring match on the display name

• in_collection, in_biennial, on_view (boolean, optional)

• sort ('default' | 'name_asc' | 'name_desc' | 'most_viewed' | 'random')

• page (number, default 1), limit (number, 1-30, default 10)

• response_format ('markdown' | 'json', default 'markdown')

Returns: { total, count, page, has_more, next_page?, results[], note? }

Example: "which O'Keeffes are in the collection?" -> search name="O'Keeffe", then whitney_artist_artworks with the returned id.

Fetch one artist's full record, including their biography where the Museum has published one.

Args:

• id (string): TMS ID or 'T'-prefixed reference

• response_format ('markdown' | 'json', default 'markdown')

Returns: { record: { id, name, sort_name, dates, birth_year, death_year, in_collection, in_biennial, in_artport, on_view, ulan_id, wikidata_id, biography, page_url } }

The biography is stripped of HTML and truncated. ulan_id (Getty ULAN) and wikidata_id are useful for cross-referencing other sources.

List the collection works by one artist.

Args:

• id (string): artist ID

• page (number, default 1), limit (number, 1-30, default 10)

• response_format ('markdown' | 'json', default 'markdown')

Returns: { total, count, page, has_more, next_page?, results[] } with slim artwork records.

Use this rather than whitney_search_artworks with an artist name — it matches on the artist record rather than the credit line, so collaborative and attributed works are handled correctly.

List Whitney exhibitions featuring one artist.

Args:

• id (string): artist ID

• page (number, default 1), limit (number, 1-30, default 10)

• response_format ('markdown' | 'json', default 'markdown')

Returns: { total, count, page, has_more, next_page?, results[] }.

Exhibition fields are passed through generically (HTML stripped, long prose truncated), because the Museum documents these fields as subject to change. Coverage is fuller for recent decades than for the Museum's early history.

Search exhibitions mounted by the Whitney, going back to 1931. Records are fuller for recent decades and sparse for the Museum's early history.

Args:

• title (string, optional): substring match

• filters (object, optional): raw Ransack predicates for fields this tool does not expose

• sort (string, optional): e.g. 'start_time desc', 'random'

• starts_on_or_after / starts_on_or_before (string, optional): ISO dates (YYYY-MM-DD) filtering on start_time

• page (number, default 1), limit (number, 1-30, default 10)

• response_format ('markdown' | 'json', default 'markdown')

Returns: { total, count, page, has_more, next_page?, results[] }

Exhibition fields are passed through generically — the Museum documents its field set as subject to change, so this tool keeps whatever scalar fields the API returns, strips HTML, shortens timestamps to dates and drops internal IDs. Known fields include title, start_time, end_time, date_override, url, primary_text, press_highlights and popularity. Run one search with limit=1 to confirm before writing a 'filters' query.

Fetch one exhibition record by ID.

Args:

• id (string): exhibition ID, as returned by whitney_search_exhibitions

• response_format ('markdown' | 'json', default 'markdown')

Returns: { record: {...} } — fields as published by the API, HTML stripped.

Search Museum events — talks, tours, public programmes and so on — going back to 2008. This list is largely comprehensive.

Args:

• title (string, optional): substring match

• filters (object, optional): raw Ransack predicates

• sort (string, optional): e.g. 'start_time desc'

• starts_on_or_after / starts_on_or_before (string, optional): ISO dates (YYYY-MM-DD) filtering on start_time

• page (number, default 1), limit (number, 1-30, default 10)

• response_format ('markdown' | 'json', default 'markdown')

Returns: { total, count, page, has_more, next_page?, results[] }

As with exhibitions, fields are passed through generically. Sort by 'start_time desc' for the most recent programming.

Search audio guides published since 2009. Fetching an individual guide also returns its stops.

Args:

• title (string, optional), filters (object, optional), sort (string, optional)

• page (number, default 1), limit (number, 1-30, default 10)

• response_format ('markdown' | 'json', default 'markdown')

Returns: { total, count, page, has_more, next_page?, results[] }

Escape hatch for queries the typed tools do not cover. Hits any endpoint with arbitrary Ransack predicates.

Args:

• endpoint ('artists' | 'artworks' | 'exhibitions' | 'events' | 'guides' | 'pages')

• id (string, optional): fetch a single record instead of a list

• filters (object, optional): raw predicates, e.g. { "medium_cont_all_split": "graphite paper" }

• sort (string, optional): e.g. 'popularity desc'

• page (number, default 1), limit (number, 1-30, default 10)

• response_format ('markdown' | 'json', default 'markdown')

Returns: a list result, or { record: {...} } when 'id' is supplied.

Prefer the typed tools where they fit — they return tidier records. Use this to discover field names, combine unusual predicates, or reach the 'pages' endpoint. Note that 'pages' mirrors the Museum's CMS structure and is rarely useful outside it.