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Magic Tate Ball app for iPhone and iPad


4.8 ( 3888 ratings )
Entertainment Education
Developer: Tate Gallery
Free
Current version: 2.2, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 11 May 2012
App size: 37.51 Mb

Magic Tate Ball reveals the hidden connections between art and your everyday life!

* NEW ARTWORKS ADDED *

Shake your phone day or night, anywhere in the world, and the app’s clever search algorithm will present you with the most relevant artwork from Tate’s archive. It uses date, time of day, your GPS location, local weather conditions and ambient noise levels to match an artwork to that unique moment in time.

With artworks from Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Claude Monet, JM Turner and many more, Magic Tate Ball is a fun way to find art, giving you the Tate on tap!

Each artwork comes with a funny or facty Twitter-sized write-up. If its a sunny day you might share in Constables appreciation of the great British landscape. The rain might coax The Snail by Matisse out of his shell. At lunch time you might find out why fat, and felt, are so important in Beuyss work, or a noisy after work drink might lead to Georg Baselitz explaining why he made a piece with a chainsaw.

Take your Magic Tate Ball to Tate Modern to unlock a super-secret bonus mode.

Magic Tate Ball is yours to shake, what artwork will this moment make?

Concept and content from Tate and Thought Den. Designed and built by Thought Den, with Mobile Pie. Sponsored by Bloomberg.