Breathe Culture into Your Day with the Google Arts & Culture Chrome Extension

very reliable

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.

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.

Stuck on a black screen. This isn't a Manifest V3 thing is it?

Extension was also stuck on a black screen for every new tab but after removing it & readding it the issue seems to be fixed!

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

Turn your web browser in an aesthetic and artful gallery!

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.

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.

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.

Limited sources. Better if from worldwide museums, even better if customised sources could be chosen.

Test Review

To those who gets a blank page: Please try to enable the developer mode and reinstall. This worked for me.

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.

Hello! Please fix this extension, the page is blank, I got so used to it for all these years :(( Love it!

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"

i love it but recently it displays blank white instead of the art works, please fixxxx