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Art Project masterpieces from Google Cultural Institute as your wallpaper
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All ChromeOS apps will be deprecated soon. In the meantime, please enjoy our Chrome extension (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-arts-culture/akimgimeeoiognljlfchpbkpfbmeapkh), our Android app (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.cultural) or our iOS app (https://apps.apple.com/app/google-arts-culture/id1050970557).
Art Project masterpieces from Google Cultural Institute as your wallpaper
Breathe a little culture into your day! Discover a beautiful artwork from the Google Art Project each time you open your Chromebook in the morning!
With this app, you’ll see wallpaper masterpieces ranging from Van Gogh and Monet, all the way to contemporary works from street artists around the world. The artwork is refreshed every day.
If an artwork happens to spark your curiosity, open the app and click the image description to discover more on the Google Cultural Institute website.
Latest reviews
- (2020-03-26) Red Harmony: It would be a great benefit to my life if the execution wasn't so tragically poor. With the amount of art in the public domain, there is no reason for it ever to have to repeat, but it does. It is supposed to change automatically every day, (it claims), but it doesn't. A painting may stay for months if you don't just change it manually. Since the most recent update, it no longer gives you the basic information about the painting. The former info box, when you click on the icon, is blank.This is a typical half assed Google product. They have a great idea, the best intentions, and then, with most of the money in the world that hasn't been vacuumed up by Amazon, they apparently don't fund, or staff, or remember it. Much like Google Podcasts, Amazon Prime Video, and other apps that aren't even compatible or available with chromebooks, the disconnect between your phone and computer is staggering. How can such a huge, wealthy, innovative corporation fail so spectacularly with projects that have so much potential? Their course is littered with abandoned ideas, apps, utilities, programs that could have been leaders in their fields, but just didn't get any support. Need I mention the many chat and calling apps that were semi-duplicates until they were abandoned or proliferated so often that no one could keep track of them? I try to like Google because of the good things it does; I have an Android phone, a Chromebook, and a Chromecast. My music is all in Google Play. But it's so difficult, because of the apparent casual dysfunction of this hugely powerful corporation. Can I really trust it? At least with Apple you know exactly how little they care about their customers as long as they can squeeze the money out of them. But Google poses as though it cares about us. Do better, Alphabet, goddamn it!
- (2020-03-19) Alondra Lopez: it wont let me uninstall
- (2020-03-13) Alex Baker: Enjoyed this app for a long time but it appears to have become nonfunctional recently. Perhaps another denizen of the Google Graveyard?
- (2020-03-08) Michael Meredith: No longer working, just a blank box when I open the App
- (2019-11-15) Skyler Lomanto: Can't uninstall it
- (2019-02-23) Barry Cochran: Too narrow a selection of art. Doesn't switch daily. Not what I was looking for at all, but thanks.
- (2019-02-16) M e (Handle-R): I didnt know google had a cultural institute. Go Google.
- (2019-02-13) Daniel Accettura: I'm happy with it. Works just like you would expect on a Chromebook. The art is mostly traditional, but I love it. The selection must be random instead of sequential since the art repeats more frequently than I would expect. It would be nice if the titles had an embedded link to learn more about the work or artist.
- (2018-12-30) Adink De Menace: For the love of art, this is the best wallpaper ever!
- (2018-12-27) Sarah Seetoh: its was okay.. i wanted to input my own wallpaper for it to change randomly but ... yea... do i *tried* to remove from my device, but i dont even knoe how! it doesnt say "remove from chrome" like it usually does. Is it because this is more of a app than a chrome application?
- (2018-02-19) Shane: Should be able to pause the artwork from changing daily within the app. You can also just disable the app in extensions to get the same effect. On the other hand, fix needed so artwork changes consistently every day. Maybe more artwork should be added also. Otherwise it's a great app idea.
- (2017-12-10) Rob Langevoort: Today it doesn't work automatically and hasn't for months. Manually changing wallpaper works but often times layers overlap. Very poor on Googles part.
- (2017-05-08) NASCARnie: I cant delete it. I hate it
- (2017-01-28) Michelle Price: Love the art work but it does not always change as it should. Developer, please work on this issue. Perhaps new art work would also be good but the current stock is great!
- (2017-01-26) Ashton Ginas: i cant uninstall it and it takes over the wallpapers i set on my computer
- (2017-01-24) Marleny: dont like it cant delete it
- (2016-12-17) Monica Masso-Rivetti: Just not my type of art. Also did not appreciate that I have to uninstall to disable.
- (2016-12-01) Jack A.: terrible
- (2016-11-10) Mike Bubeck: I like what this app does. It is easy enough to change the wallpaper if you don't like that day's art.
- (2016-10-12) Lauren Kartes: it wont let me uninstall and its ugly art
- (2016-10-02) Maria Bogdan: it wont let me unistall it do something
- (2016-10-01) bahrta sai: I don't like the fact that the only way to "disable" it is to uninstall it. The wallpapers are ok but they get boring after a while.
- (2016-09-08) BRUH BRUH: wont let me delete it
- (2016-09-01) Francisco de Zavalía: Love it. We need more and more art, Google!
- (2016-08-15) Franz Salvatierra: Wish this was a screen saver. This is awesome!
- (2016-08-06) T: This site holds many a masterpiece.
- (2016-07-29) jam provolone: it keeps changing my backround to weird pics when i set my backround to a polar bear...it changes by its self and i hate it
- (2016-07-24) Darryl Behlin: you should give us a way to uninstall.
- (2016-07-10) Tara Owens: its too old fashion and i cant get it off. i go to the chorme web store and then to apps or exstention but there is no trash icon or delete opions. these is not my kind of art
- (2016-07-06) Shaneika n Sean Toney: freezed on me when trying to choose pic for my wallpaper.just horrible
- (2016-07-01) Cesar Trujillo: I love the art. I did a power wash on my Chromebook and it wasn't there after. I got it all figured out but chrome://extensions or hot dogs (settings button) >more tools>extenions It's true that it's not that simple for everyone to work with the extension. I don't know if most people would know that's what this is. In the Chrome web store it says 'app' so of course I too would think to look for it under apps to remove it if I didn't like it.
- (2016-06-10) phoenix happy: hate it keeps changing my wallpaper how do i undownload
- (2016-04-13) jennylyn sta.maria: i want to remove this apps to my computer but i dont know how
- (2016-04-03) Seir G: it was automatically put on my computer so now i cant have my own wallpaper.
- (2016-03-26) Jr Cordero: i cant delete it
- (2016-03-09) Hannah Capone: disturbing my wallpaper
- (2016-03-07) Michaela Lopez: how do you get ride of this app i hate it!!!!
- (2016-02-27) jayonna: i do not like the pic
- (2016-02-27) J. Patrick O'Neill Jr.: The art is great, but it does change automatically each day as advertised. Bummer dude. FYI...using v1.3.
- (2016-02-16) Paul Brownstein: Like the photos, don't like the app - does not work as claimed/simply won't change daily, or at all, unless you go in and force it manually, which is also a project.
- (2016-02-14) Trejas: great if I was 100 years old or an art major.
- (2016-02-13) Latasha Byrd: I dont like this app and I wish it was a way to remove it off my computer
- (2016-02-03) Aretta Billips: Ugly images. Difficult to get rid of.
- (2016-01-18) Branson Barrish: It Is Pretty Cool
- (2016-01-04) Bumble: this app is awesome!!!
- (2015-12-23) Ehn Gee: Love the artwork this app provides. The app doesn't always change the wallpaper everyday like it should, but I don't mind.
- (2015-12-22) Larry Martin: The thing doesn't change every day like it says. I have to do it manually which sort of takes away from the "surprise" aspect of it.
- (2015-12-21) Raenya Sharma: In my opinion, I really love having a new wallpaper of beautiful art everyday. Now, I've looked at other reviews, and this is my first day using this app, so I'm unsure if I will encounter problems otherwise, but so far, great job!
- (2015-12-18) Ogün Çakır: does not change automatically
- (2015-12-15) Jay L Himes: Same problem: I have to manually change the wallpaper. Is there some magic to getting the app to change the wallpaper daily?