App Detail » Art Discovery

What's New

Improved search result retrieval
Corrected positioning of some UI elements

App Description

Art Lovers rejoice!

Art Discovery is a new 100% universal iOS 7 app for the iPhone and iPad that leverages the award winning “Art Authority for iPad” database of 70,000 works of art.

Discover new art and artists in a fun way with “Random Art”.

Play the “Name the Artist” game to test your knowledge of artists within a period.

Art Discovery has connections to the Community.ArtAuthority.net social network as well, allowing you to easily mark works as “Loved” and “Seen” as well as rating them and making comments on them.

You can even organize works into private catalogs for research or ease of locating them later.

“Art Near Me” makes it the perfect traveling companion.

One app to buy. It works on all your iOS devices.

Features include:

- Access to 20GB worth of art, optimized for quality and download speed through the Art Authority servers (works still under copyright come from authorized servers)
- Early, Renaissance, Baroque, Romantic, Impressionist, Modern, Contemporary and American rooms
- Dozens of artists per room, listed by movement or nationality
- Searchable index of all artists, locations and works
- Art Near Me: search for art based on your location or a major city
- Art Real Size: instantly see and understand the actual size of works
- Random: random display of all art, or by period
- Access to in-depth information on artists, major works and locations
- Full-screen slideshow display, with user-settable transitions, motion effects, and music
- Gallery-like, scrolling thumbnail view shows how works have evolved over time, aids in comparisons and exploration
- Offline access to works previously viewed
- Love, Rate, Tag, See, Bookmark and Comment on everything
- Share works through AirDrop (iOS 7), mail and social networks
- Easy access to NPR's Fine Art news feed
- Stay informed with access to the Art Authority blog
- "Name the Artist" trivia mini game

We are committed to delivering new feature upgrades and bug fixes at least monthly, if not more often, for the first year. We are already heads down on the next version of the app.


Please note: This app licenses use of the Art Authority database, but is designed and developed separately from Art Authority by a different company. Previous owners of Art Authority will need to buy this app if they want a universal app. This is not a replacement or upgrade for Art Authority. We highly encourage you to support art apps and developers by buying great apps like Art Authority and Art Discovery. Buying Art Authority will help keep the database growing and buying Art Discovery will help keep development of art apps going.

If you find a bug, please let us know with an email to [email protected] and we will fix it right away.

App Changes

• June 08, 2014 Initial release
• September 05, 2014 Price decrease: $4.99 -> FREE!