Salon
Museum art, on your wall
Salon turns your Apple TV into a picture frame. Nearly 800 public-domain paintings, prints, maps and photographs, each one chosen by hand and cut to fill your screen.
For Apple TVChosen, not scraped
Every picture looked at by a person
Open museum collections are full of work that is free to use and hopeless on a television: portraits taller than they are wide, faint pencil studies, the blank back of a sketchbook page. None of that is here.
What is here has been checked for shape, for sharpness, and for whether it still reads from across a room, then cut to exactly 3840 × 2160, so your television neither crops it nor letterboxes it.
The collection
From the Renaissance to the far side of the Moon
On your wall
Nothing between you and the work
Made to be left on
A frame first, an app second
Framed, or not
Edge to edge, or behind a bevel-cut mat in five board colours and three widths. A live preview shows the real thing while you choose.
A clock, if you want one
Time, or time and date, in any corner, twelve- or twenty-four-hour. It sits on the picture, never on the mat.
Your own slideshow
Save favourites and let the frame move through them every minute, five, fifteen or hour. In order or shuffled, each one fades gently into the next.
Keeps going offline
The picture on your wall and your favourites are kept on the Apple TV, so the frame carries on when the connection drops.
Where the pictures come from
Public domain, from the institutions that hold it
Every work in Salon is published for unrestricted use by the museum or agency that holds it. Each picture names its source on screen.
Salon is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by any of these institutions.
- National Gallery of ArtWashington, D.C. · Open Access, CC0
- The Metropolitan Museum of ArtNew York · Open Access, CC0
- Cleveland Museum of ArtCleveland · Open Access, CC0
- Art Institute of ChicagoChicago · Open Access, CC0
- Smithsonian InstitutionWashington, D.C. · Open Access, CC0
- NASAImage and Video Library · public domain
- U.S. Geological SurveyEarth as Art · public domain
- Wikimedia CommonsOnly files recorded as not copyrighted
No account · no tracking · no subscription
Salon asks for nothing
No sign-in, no analytics, no data collection of any kind. Buy it once and it is yours. Privacy policy
Questions
Before you hang it
Is there a subscription?
No. Salon is a single purchase, with no in-app purchases, no subscription and no account.
Which Apple TV do I need?
Any Apple TV HD or Apple TV 4K with tvOS 17 or later.
Can I show my own photos?
Not at the moment. Salon shows its own collection, every picture chosen by hand and cut for the screen.
Does it need the internet?
To browse the collection and add new pictures, yes. The picture on your wall and your favourites are kept on the Apple TV, so the frame keeps going if the connection drops.
Why is there no Picasso or Warhol?
Most art made after about 1930 is still under copyright almost everywhere, so no open collection can offer it. The paintings stop there; the photographs of space and of Earth come right up to the present day.
Why are some galleries small?
Salon only shows work that is public domain, flat, and wider than it is tall, so it fills a television. For some periods that leaves genuinely few pictures, and the app shows what exists rather than padding a gallery out.
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