Samsung’s Frame TVs now offer art from MoMA, and it looks fantastic
The Samsung Art Store adds beautiful new artworks including 27 classics from the MoMA collection
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Samsung’s The Frame TV is based on a simple and brilliant idea: what if your TV could also be a picture frame for some of the world’s greatest artworks? And now its catalog has been joined by nearly 30 new artworks courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art, or MoMA for short.
The new Art Store arrivals were selected by curator Daria Greene, who wanted to honor the museum’s history and vision. The artworks include Frida Kahlo’s “Fulang Chang and I” (1937), the first time Kahlo’s work has been available for display on the platform, Vincent van Gogh’s “The Starry Night” (1889), Henri Rousseau’s “The Dream” (1910) and Georgia O’Keeffe’s “Evening Star III” (1917).
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When we reviewed the2022 version of the Samsung The Frame, we said that its new anti-reflective screen made it particularly good for viewing works of art. While even thebest TVscan’t quite match the experience of seeing an original artwork in place – Van Gogh’s The Starry Night is available with massive zoom levelson the MoMA website, btu I’m told that it’s still not as breathtaking as being up close with the original – the combination of a QLED display,4Kresolution and anti-reflective display is as good as you can get if New York isn’t convenient to you.
The arrival of the artworks from MoMA is significant for another reason: until now the majority of artworks available for The Frame were public domain, either because they were so old their copyright had expired or in rarer cases, because the artist had given away their copyright.
That inevitably meant the catalog was skewed towards older works of art, and while they’re of course valuable too it did mean that the choice of modern art was a little limited. So it’ll be nice to see the MoMA collection take its place alongside other modern works by artists such asKeith Haring,Jen StarkandShinique Smith.
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Writer, broadcaster, musician and kitchen gadget obsessive Carrie Marshall has been writing about tech since 1998, contributing sage advice and odd opinions to all kinds of magazines and websites as well as writing more than a dozen books. Her memoir,Carrie Kills A Man, is on sale now and her next book, about pop music, is out in 2025. She is the singer in Glaswegian rock bandUnquiet Mind.
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