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We scroll for hours and feel nothing.
What if that same impulse could take you somewhere?
That's the question behind Art Universe — an infinite art discovery experience built entirely in Figma Make.
Most museum apps show you art. Art Universe pulls you through it.
You start with one painting. Hold to explore. Suddenly you're looking at every artist who worked in the same decade, used the same technique, painted the same subject on the other side of the world. One artwork becomes a portal. Then another. Then another.
Van Gogh leads to Monet leads to a Japanese woodblock print from the same era. You don't browse. You dive.
Along the way you can:
Search by anything -> artist, era, style, mood
Switch between gallery, wander, and focus modes
Set your ambiance -> music, light, dark
Hold any artwork to enter the Curatorial Universe, a constellation of connected art built around that one piece
This isn't a museum. It's a universe.
Built with Figma Make, pulling live from four open-access museum APIs : Cleveland Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, The Met, and the Smithsonian.
Art Universe. Stop scrolling. Start diving.
Try it: https://art-universe.figma.site/
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this is fantastic!
The constellation model for related works is the right metaphor for how art history actually works. Most discovery tools treat artworks as separate cards. Treating one as a portal to everything connected to it is a genuinely different way of thinking about the problem.
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