For data regarding artworks, collections, galleries or museums, state funding or involvement in the arts, art history, and aesthetics.
There's been a lot of activity on the art open data front recently:
Here are some examples of the kinds of things you can do with art open data:
Datasett
4 datasett funnet.
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A project of the University of York and the Tate to create linked data for a dataset of "The London Art World 1660-1735". Currently in progress, with the ODbL as forerunner for the...
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"NI 9 Use of public libraries NI 10 Visits to museums and galleries NI 11 Engagement in the arts"
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Various RDF datasets from the National Gallery. Some appear to be under an original-BSD-style licence, which I believe amounts to an attribution licence.
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A screen-scraped RDF/SPARQL database of artworks in various UK government collections. See here for details of how the data was assembled:...