Commonplace
Ambient museum art for your Apple TV — with matched quotations and a quiet soundtrack.
tvOS 18 or later · Apple TV 4K & HD
Commonplace turns your Apple TV into a living gallery. It builds its deck at runtime from four museums' open collections — the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the National Gallery of Denmark — and pairs each work with a fitting line of poetry or prose. What it shows follows the hour, the season, and your local weather: nocturnes at night, seascapes and storms as the mood turns. A slow Ken Burns focus-tour drifts toward the most salient detail of each painting, works cross-dissolve seamlessly, and an optional Apple Music soundtrack — classical or quiet jazz — matches the mood. It opens instantly on a small bundled deck of public-domain masterpieces, then folds in fresh art as it loads.
Features
- Live from four museums — the Met, Art Institute of Chicago, Cleveland Museum of Art, and the National Gallery of Denmark, pulled fresh from their open APIs
- Opens instantly — a bundled deck of public-domain masterpieces paints on launch, even before the network, so the wall is never blank
- Matched quotations — each work paired with a fitting line of poetry or prose
- Reads the room — art shifts with time of day, season, and your local weather
- Ken Burns focus-tour — a slow push toward each painting's most salient detail, found with on-device vision
- Seamless cross-dissolves between works, with gentle dimming at night
- Apple Music soundtrack — an optional classical or quiet-jazz station matched to the mood
- Tunable in Settings — museums, theme, era, weather location, and soundtrack genre