ArtsDot MCP: discover art and price a print in your AI app

Browse ArtsDot from Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

1. 1Click Connect ArtsDot free. There's no sign-in, so its tools are ready at once.
2. 2Searching and reading tools make up most of the list. If you're only exploring art, switch off the three pricing and buying tools: `get_a_quotation`, `get_a_custom_reproduction_quotation` and `get_artwork_availability`.
3. 3Add ContextGate to your AI app as a connector or MCP server. The steps for each app are on the Works with page.
4. 4Ask your AI app to find paintings that feel like a rainy Paris street, then open Activity to see the `search_objects_semantically` call.

Exploring art with ArtsDot

• Describe a mood or scene and find artworks close in meaning with `search_objects_semantically`.
• Read about an artist's life and work with `get_detail_artist`.
• Find museums by name, city and country with `search_museums`.
• Ask what an art print or oil painting of a work would cost with `get_a_quotation`.

Your art searches, on record

• Activity keeps every search and price check.
• Switch off the pricing tools if you're only browsing; they're hidden from your AI app and refused if called.
• Workspace policies apply to ArtsDot calls too, for example blocking a secret pasted by mistake.

What you get with ArtsDot and ContextGate

• Your AI apps can use ArtsDotClaude, Cursor, ChatGPT and other AI apps reach ArtsDot through the one ContextGate connection you add to them.
• You choose which tools they can useSwitch off any ArtsDot tool you don't want used. It's hidden from your AI apps and refused if called.
• Every call is checked and recordedYour policies check each call (for example, personal data is hidden and secrets are blocked), and Activity keeps a record of it.

ContextGate sees only the tool calls that go through it, not your AI app's built-in tools or your chats.

ArtsDot tools

Examples of what your AI apps can do in ArtsDot. You'll see the exact list of tools after you connect it.

• search_artworksFull-text search of the artwork catalog by title, artist name and description. Returns only good-confidence matches with pk, artist_name, title, url, image_url
• search_museumsFull-text search of museums by name, optionally narrowed by city and country. Returns only good-confidence matches with pk, name, url, image_url (absolute URL o
• search_artistsFull-text search of artists by name and biography, optionally narrowed by birth city/country and by a year the artist was alive (born <= year <= died, or born +
• search_articlesFull-text search of website articles, optionally filtered by category code. Returns pk, title, url, image_url (absolute URL of the large article image, null whe
• search_sections_semanticallySemantic search of the texts of our site: returns the sections that answer the question best, by meaning rather than shared words, each WHOLE (section_text is n
• search_objects_semanticallySemantic search returning OBJECTS, not passages: the artworks, artists, museums or articles whose texts are closest in meaning to a text (a question, a paragrap
• search_ftsFull-text search across artworks, artists, museums and articles at once (maximum 10 results per model, merged by relevance). Use it when you know a name or keyw
• get_detail_artworkFull data of ONE artwork identified by pk (use a search tool first to find the pk). Always returns: pk, title, meta_description, meta_keywords (first 5), descri
• get_detail_artistFull data of ONE artist identified by pk (use a search tool first to find the pk). Always returns: pk, title, meta_description, meta_keywords (first 5), descrip
• get_detail_museumFull data of ONE museum identified by pk (use a search tool first to find the pk). Always returns: pk, title, meta_description, meta_keywords (first 5), descrip
• get_detail_articleFull data of ONE article identified by pk (use a search tool first to find the pk). Always returns: pk, title, meta_description, meta_keywords (first 5), descri
• get_a_quotationPrice quotation for a reproduction of an artwork, as an art print or a hand-painted oil painting, at a given size and in a given currency. Leave type out to get
• get_a_custom_reproduction_quotationPrice quotation for a CUSTOM reproduction — one made from an image the customer supplies (their own photo, or an artwork that is not in the catalog) — as an art
• get_artwork_availabilityEvery way to buy ONE artwork right now, on every sales channel it sells: the physical objects first — a ready-made oil painting in stock ("Stock Discount Oil Pa