Samsung’s Frame TVs now offer art from MoMA, and it looks fantastic
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 works of art? And now the catalog has been supplemented with almost 30 new works of art, courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art, or MoMA for short.
The new Art Store acquisitions were selected by curator Daria Greene, who wanted to honor the history and vision of the museum. Artworks include Frida Kahlo’s “Fulang Chang and I” (1937), the first time Kahlo’s work was available for exhibition on stage, 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 the 2022 version of the Samsung The Frame, we said the new anti-glare screen made it particularly good for viewing works of art. While even the best TVs can’t quite match the experience of seeing an original work of art, Van Gogh’s The Starry Night is available at enormous zoom levels on the MoMA websitebtu I’m told it’s still not as breathtaking as the original – the combination of a QLED screen, 4K resolution and anti-glare screen is as good as you can get if New York isn’t convenient for you.
The arrival of MoMA’s artworks is significant for another reason: Until now, most of the artworks available to The Frame were public domain, either because they were so old that their copyright had expired or, in rarer cases, because the artist had given away their copyright. .
This inevitably meant that the catalog focused mainly on older works of art, and while they are of course also valuable, it did mean that the choice of modern art was somewhat limited. So it will be nice to see the MoMA collection take its place alongside other modern works by artists such as Keith Herring, Jen Stark And Shinique Smith.