ARTstor Mobile
ARTstor is accessible to registered users through various mobile operating systems. The mobile site for Apple devices and mobile app for Android devices allows users to search, browse, and view previously created image groups.
By Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
Price: Free
The Guggenheim museum’s app contains several features designed to enhance your experience at the museum and provide you with materials to discover at home. These features include information on more than 1,300 works from the museum’s collection, building and collection guides available in several languages as well as exclusive audio, video, and photographic documentation for select exhibitions. There is also a Manage My Guides section for users to add and delete content, customized favorite lists, and a weekly calendar with program details, images, and links to purchase tickets.
Interaction of Color by Josef Albers
By Yale University
Price: Free; $13.99 for the complete Edition
First published in 1963, Josef Alber's Interaction of Color is one of the most influential books on color ever written. The classic text achieves its full, interactive potential in this stunning new application for iPad. The full app is free to download, and allows you to sample Chapter 19, including text, video commentary, two interactive plates, and the palette tool. The complete app - featuring full text, 125 plates, 60 interactive studies, and over two hours of video commentary - can be unlocked through an in-app purchase.
By MoMA, The Museum of Modern Art
Price: Free
The app for the Museum of Modern Art, home to the world’s finest collection of modern and contemporary art. You can use the app to find out about current exhibitions, plan a visit, browse or search tens of thousands of works in the collection, take multimedia tours, or learn about artists and art terms.
The Design Museum Collection for iPad
By The Andy Warhol Museum, Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh
Price: $0.99
This app allows users to create a digital silkscreen just like Andy Warhol’s classic pieces but using their own photos. It allows users to go through a multi-step process (film positive, underpainting, screening) that sheds light on the actual silk-screening process.
Tate Guide to Modern Art Terms
By Tate Gallery
Price: $2.99
A comprehensive dictionary to help demystify the language used to describe modern art. Includes more than 300 art terms covering movements, styles, schools, techniques and art theory with 43 illustrations.
By Mnestra
Price: $3.99
This app is an original, fully documented and captivating account of the painter with amazing interactive features. It provides in=depth insight into Van Gogh’s art and thoughts.