Salon
Museum art for Apple TV
Museum art for Apple TV
Opening the browser
Press Select anywhere on the picture. Press Menu to step back, and again to return to the picture.
Choosing a picture
Collection → a movement → a picture → Display on Frame.
The mat (passepartout)
Settings → Framing. Off, the picture fills the screen. On, a bevel-cut board surrounds it, in five colours and three widths.
The clock
Settings → Clock. Off, time, or time and date, in any corner, 12- or 24-hour.
Changing pictures automatically
Settings → On Screen. The frame cycles through your Favourites, so save at least two for it to have somewhere to go.
Why are some categories small?
Salon only shows work that is public domain, flat (paintings, prints, drawings, photographs) and wider than it is tall, so it fills a 16:9 screen. For some movements that leaves genuinely few works, and the app shows what exists rather than padding it out.
Why is there no Surrealism, Cubism or Pop Art?
Art after roughly 1930 is still under copyright almost everywhere, so no open museum collection can offer it.
Does it need the internet?
To browse the collection and to add new pictures, yes. Once a picture is on the frame or saved to Favourites it is kept on the device, so the frame carries on working if the connection drops.
Does Salon collect any data?
No. No account, no analytics, no tracking, no third-party code. Settings and favourites are stored only on your Apple TV.
Where does the art come from?
The open-access collections of the National Gallery of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Cleveland Museum of Art, all published under CC0 1.0. Each picture is checked and cropped for the screen before it reaches the app, and served from Salon's own servers so it arrives at the right size.
Email salonsupport@icloud.com and I'll get back to you.