Tag: Art Tab
16 posts
- Finding a newspaper comic in a fine art museumStumbled across a 1995 Curtis comic strip in the Art Institute of Chicago's collection. Now I'm emailing them asking if they'd ever do a full comic strip exhibit. Someone on Bluesky dared me to ask, so here we are.
- Sol LeWitt in a browser tabWith every new Chrome tab—boom, art appears. Today? A Sol LeWitt print. But am I seeing a LeWitt? Or just a trace of his idea?
- Why did this 1962 print enter a museum so quickly?How does a brand-new artwork get into a museum? This 1962 print by Robert W. Mallary was added to @artinstitutechi’s collection almost instantly. What’s getting added today?
- Discover the Thorne Miniature Rooms in a browserTransform each new tab into a journey through the Thorne Miniature Rooms with my modified version of the Art Institute of Chicago's Chrome extension.
- Lace border looks like rows of cocoonsRows and rows of cocoons ready to take over our planet.
- Rough pigs by Charles Émile JacqueThe roughness of how these pigs are drawn seems to be more accurate for how they are in real life.
- That random piece of art history would make a great coloring pageYou can be the person who loves to color random artwork that was never meant to be colored.
- Sailing from a quiet to violent seascapeSo quiet. The exhaust from one tiny ship pulling a grand sailboat. The exhaust floats into the sky like the larger clouds. Then...
- Japanese falling leavesFalling leaves like Japanese characters read downward vertically on a page.
- Velvet giving illusion of depthCrawling up into the nooks and crannies of a fabric scrap.
- Indian shawl or Joseph Beuys wool?Crop an image to have a new vision on the world.
- Adorable Silly Guardian SculpturesEvidence that the Art Institute of Chicago really loves guardian statues.
- Relaxing gray washes by Pierre Antoine MonginThese Versailles trees in gray wash are relaxing. I really enjoy how this artwork is cropped by my modified version of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Art Tab. (This is a Chrome add-on that displays art in new browser tabs.…
- Art Institute’s Art Tab highlights from February 2020Here are 28 of my favorite artworks displayed in February 2020 from the Art Tab Chrome extension. Every time you open a new browser tab, you get a different work of art from the Art Institute of Chicago’s collection. Tribune…
- Art Institute’s Art Tab highlights from January 2020Imagine every time you open a new Chrome tab, you get a new work of art. The Art Institute of Chicago’s Google extension, Art Tab, places a random image from their giant collection into every new Chrome browser tab. Very…
- New artwork every day as your Chrome’s homescreen.Get a new painting every day as your browser’s homescreen. I love the Chrome add-on, Google Arts & Culture. They display quite a range of artwork from famous artists to lesser-known artists. And if you don’t like the particular artwork…
