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Art masterpieces from Google Arts & Culture in your browser tabs
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Breathe a little culture into your day! Discover a beautiful artwork from Google Arts & Culture each time you open a new tab in Chrome.
With this extension, in every new Chrome tab you’ll see 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, or you can change the settings to see a new image every time you open a new tab.
If an artwork happens to spark your curiosity, click the image description to discover more on Google Arts & Culture.
This extension was previously called the Google Art Project extension.
~~Information for Version 3.0.1~~
- Fixed an issue where the artwork was not loading, resulting in a black screen
Latest reviews
- (2025-05-07) Szymon Nowak: Please give access to more art. Simply add more or let users decide what they want to see, based on keywords or category. Extension works fine, but it needs more images.
- (2025-04-18) marcel corso: Love it. Nitpick: the images end up repeating after sometime and it gets boring. I bet that the selection is limited. Why not add ALL the art you have in stock?
- (2025-04-14) Kuriomi My Melody: WOW
- (2025-04-01) Christian Pasquali: I love seeing the art! But I recommend to deactivate the Chrome apps and top sites in the extension settings to make it look cleaner.
- (2025-03-20) Ashley Kennedy: Loved it, until for fun I went through all of the images. And recognized they're on a loop. What a bummer. Maybe I'm wrong, and it will update but for now Ive seen all the 50 images. Don't do what I did I guess.
- (2025-03-08) Gleb: Great app, but has some problems. It would be great to have a history of viewed images. Sometimes (because of the delay in loading an image) you already entered URL and clicked enter and in this second you see a great image but it is lost because you are navigated to a website. So it would be great to see history of images you saw. After a new update you get a black screen with a small label saying "loading..." before an image is presented. Before this you did not have to wait at all, with every new tab image was loaded instantly.
- (2025-02-25) K. Wang: love it
- (2025-02-25) Enis Çınar: Great extension, but I want the bookmarks bar to be visible like in the "default new tab" (not visible on all sites, just in the new tab).
- (2024-12-18) Spencer Swanson: Fantastic art!
- (2024-08-17) Taweng Laurie (Weng): very reliable
- (2024-07-09) Dan “boomstix” Morris: this is such a great extension if you appreciate human art. i have been using it since it was the google art project. i would give it six stars if that were possible. if you find that you are getting a black screen - this appears to be an artefact of a recent update. "turn it it off and on again" - a quick uninstall and re-install will fix the problem.
- (2024-06-23) Sam Lander: Stuck on a black screen. This isn't a Manifest V3 thing is it?
- (2024-06-23) Chris H44: Extension was also stuck on a black screen for every new tab but after removing it & readding it the issue seems to be fixed!
- (2024-06-21) Molly Whuppie: was working fine until yesterday when it gets stuck on a black screen. Changed the settings to a new artwork on every new tab and now it occasionally load a new artwork, or it will refresh sometimes to an image that works, but the majority of images just show a black screen.
- (2024-06-20) Ritabrata Thakur: Stuck on the same figure. I have to click on the "change" icon manually to change the background. Stopped working today due to some reason?
- (2024-06-19) Richard Lee: Was a great extension, but stopped working recently? Never loads the background images anymore. Just black. Seems stuck on trying to load Flight Pattern by Rob Evans at James A. Michener Art Museum.
- (2024-06-10) Dmitry Chestnykh: This is a great extension, thank you for making it! However, the recent update shows "Loading..." text, which is annoying. Could you please remove it — blank screen is perfectly fine until the picture loads.
- (2024-06-04) Nicholas Colella: It was a nice app, used it for years, but they recently requested a bunch of additional permissions which are not necessary for the core functionality.
- (2024-06-03) Ozy X: Great extension. Definitely recommend!
- (2024-05-31) Trinity 99: new top sites menu is the ugliest thing I've ever seen in my life. Tf is that default font?
- (2024-05-09) San Oscar Arnulfo Romero: The best extension that I have ever used. Now I love even more my desktop.
- (2024-04-22) Daniel Lehtinen: Google Extensions suck! You can´t even comment on Youtube. >:(
- (2024-03-26) Kochin Chang: I enjoy seeing a new painting every day. But this extension needs to be updated so that, when clicking on the "Default new tab" button, it opens the URL "chrome://new-tab-page" instead of "chrome-search://local-ntp/local-ntp.html", which doesn't work anymore. It's a very simple change. Please...
- (2024-03-02) Georgios D. Tsiras: There is a new bug, when you turn on the "Default new tab" button from options and you press the upper left button to open "the default new tab" you get the URL chrome-search://local-ntp/local-ntp.html with the error "This site can’t be reachedThe webpage at chrome-search://local-ntp/local-ntp.html might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address. ERR_INVALID_URL" Tried this on multiple computers, I believe it is extention wide and is not my setup's fault.
- (2024-02-25) Georgios Tsiras: February 2024 Anyone getting the same behavior?, when in a new tab I press the upper left button (top sites button) I get an error page "The webpage at chrome-search://local-ntp/local-ntp.html might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address. ERR_INVALID_URL"
- (2024-02-25) Georgios Tsiras: February 2024 Anyone getting the same behavior?, when in a new tab I press the upper left button (top sites button) I get an error page "The webpage at chrome-search://local-ntp/local-ntp.html might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address. ERR_INVALID_URL"
- (2024-02-03) Thắng Lê: Turn your web browser in an aesthetic and artful gallery!
- (2023-10-21) Cristina Belda García: Siempre me sale las mismas obras de artes. Me gustaría que sea más diversos.
- (2023-07-14) Matthijs VO: Love the idea, wish it was executed better. - After just a while you notice the pool of artworks really isn't that large, the same stuff tends to circulate quite often - Low quality images, and even then often very unflatteringly cropped. Adding borders to keep the right proportions would be much more respectful to the artwork in my opinion.
- (2023-07-14) Matthijs VO: Love the idea, wish it was executed better. - After just a while you notice the pool of artworks really isn't that large, the same stuff tends to circulate quite often - Low quality images, and even then often very unflatteringly cropped. Adding borders to keep the right proportions would be much more respectful to the artwork in my opinion.
- (2023-06-14) Sarah H.: My friend recommended it to me and I just tried it out today. It works, and does exactly what it says in the description. It's great, the artworks are very picturesque, but there are a few nit-picky points I'd like to say. The resolution isn't the highest, but it isn't extremely low either. I have to press the refresh button myself when I want to see a different artwork, and I would have liked it if the extension did that itself every time I opened a new tab page.
- (2023-06-14) Sarah H.: My friend recommended it to me and I just tried it out today. It works, and does exactly what it says in the description. It's great, the artworks are very picturesque, but there are a few nit-picky points I'd like to say. The resolution isn't the highest, but it isn't extremely low either. I have to press the refresh button myself when I want to see a different artwork, and I would have liked it if the extension did that itself every time I opened a new tab page.
- (2023-06-06) Ramin Amin Tafreshi: I LOVE Google Arts & Culture and for many years I'm constantly visiting their app on my phone. However, despite of the fact that I was extremely happy to see this chrome extension, I was a bit disappointed with the quality of the pictures that show up on the background. Especially I have a huge monitor with 4k display and the paintings just don't feel beautiful. I'm not sure if there are ways to fix this issue, but nevertheless Arts & Culture project is amazing by itself.
- (2023-06-06) Ramin Amin Tafreshi: I LOVE Google Arts & Culture and for many years I'm constantly visiting their app on my phone. However, despite of the fact that I was extremely happy to see this chrome extension, I was a bit disappointed with the quality of the pictures that show up on the background. Especially I have a huge monitor with 4k display and the paintings just don't feel beautiful. I'm not sure if there are ways to fix this issue, but nevertheless Arts & Culture project is amazing by itself.
- (2023-05-29) Pedro Godinho: Limited sources. Better if from worldwide museums, even better if customised sources could be chosen.
- (2023-05-29) Pedro Godinho: Limited sources. Better if from worldwide museums, even better if customised sources could be chosen.
- (2023-02-23) Swarna Chiranjeevi: Test Review
- (2023-01-29) Do mi: C'est génial...de l'art pour partir 5 secondes ailleurs à chaque clic de chaque nouvel onglet de Chrome. Une visite internationale comme on ne pourra jamais en faire dans une vie; un bemol : les oeuvres ne s'adaptent pas à l'ecran et sont agrandies demesurement parfois. Mais le problème sera sûrement amelioré à terme...
- (2023-01-07) 김준오: 새 탭에서 하얀 화면 뜨는 사람들 확장 프로그램 삭제 후 크롬 창 완전히 닫고 adguard 비활성화 후에 설치해보세요 전 이렇게 하니 해결됐습니다
- (2023-01-03) Wenhui Wu: To those who gets a blank page: Please try to enable the developer mode and reinstall. This worked for me.
- (2023-01-03) Wenhui Wu: To those who gets a blank page: Please try to enable the developer mode and reinstall. This worked for me.
- (2022-12-31) Donghui Meng: 图片都很好看,可惜没有快捷方式
- (2022-12-22) Cassie Sherman-Marks: This is my favorite extension. There are many that make my life significantly easier and more efficient, but this one stitches moments of enjoyment and contemplation between humdrum web-browsing tasks. It's exposed me to new favorite artists - and even a painting I hung a print of in my home. It stopped working yesterday, and I and, it seems, a number of others here, already badly miss it. Please fix this quickly, Google friends. Not to do so would be evil - and I hear y'all don't be that.
- (2022-12-22) Cassie Sherman-Marks: This is my favorite extension. There are many that make my life significantly easier and more efficient, but this one stitches moments of enjoyment and contemplation between humdrum web-browsing tasks. It's exposed me to new favorite artists - and even a painting I hung a print of in my home. It stopped working yesterday, and I and, it seems, a number of others here, already badly miss it. Please fix this quickly, Google friends. Not to do so would be evil - and I hear y'all don't be that.
- (2022-12-22) Luan Antony: Parou de funcionar há mais ou menos duas semanas. Fica uma tela branca.
- (2022-12-22) Alena Bauer: Hello! Please fix this extension, the page is blank, I got so used to it for all these years :(( Love it!
- (2022-12-22) Alena Bauer: Hello! Please fix this extension, the page is blank, I got so used to it for all these years :(( Love it!
- (2022-12-21) Stefano: i love it but recently it displays blank white instead of the art works, please fixxxx
- (2022-12-21) Stefano: i love it but recently it displays blank white instead of the art works, please fixxxx
- (2022-09-22) eu ameeei!! isso é tudo que eu procurava