Art Alert app for iPhone and iPad
Developer: Open Door Networks, Inc.
First release : 10 Dec 2012
App size: 2.91 Mb
Find great art wherever you find yourself. The best way to locate, preview and get to classic works of art around the world:
• Locate: easily find museums and other art locations near you, or near where youre planning on going
• Preview: view major works from their collections, in thumbnail grids or full-screen, with detailed captions. And more when used with ART AUTHORITY.
• Get there: get directions, check their Web site, even give them a call
Featured in the NY Times Travel section! Art Alert is based on our award-winning ART AUTHORITY app line, and its Internet database of nearly 900 art locations, 1500 western artists, and 100,000 paintings and sculptures. Art Alert features include:
• Easy to use map-based interface with pins for each art location
• Search for locations by name, city, country
• View works from each location
• Captions with work title, artist, date, and other details
• Gallery-like, scrolling thumbnail view. Tap a work for full-screen view, or tap-and-hold for caption.
• Information about each location, including its address, phone, Web and Wikipedia sites
• Get directions
• Call the location directly (iPhone)
• View the locations show in Art Authority if installed
• Access to 10GB worth of art optimized for quality and download speed through our servers (works still under copyright come from authorized servers)
Latest reviews of Art Alert app for iPhone and iPad
It doesnt do anything. Why is it here? Oh, well, I am just out $4 but dont buy this one.
Very limited in number of sites (3 for Rome?) and one has a serious mistake, locating a work at Santa MariaMaggiore that is not there!
I bought the Art Alert app yesterday, expecting it would be a comprehensive guide to art museums and galleries in the cities I visit. I was appalled to find that for Houston, Texas, which some consider the most art-filled city between Chicago and LA, was represented by only one listing. Mind you, the Menil is a world-class collection, but it is secondary to the astounding, encyclopedic collections of the numerous galleries and house museums of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston! What were the developers thinking? What other cities are so poorly represented?
I downloaded an updated version, which was advertized as correcting location errors and also adding more museums ... Im sorry, but I disagree ... I do not see the correction for the 30-mile error as indicated below .... The only indicated museum in San Antonio, Texas is about 30 miles or so away from its red pin. Maybe Microsoft can come to your aid??? There is much more than one museum in SA; same goes for Austin and Houston too. I using an iPad with Art Authority on it. At the moment, this app is not very helpful.
I like art authority but this app would be far more useful if all the museums that have pins also had content instead of a web address. It also does not have many museums that have works that would be worthy of a visit in some major cities. This app could be great but the developers have lot of work to update the app to make it worthwhile enough to charge money for it.