On 25 August LG showed a television it calls the Gallery TV, sold not as a screen but as a frame hung on a wall. The idea is not new in the market; what is new here is the content: an arrangement with the Metropolitan Museum in New York.
What went into the set. More than a hundred works from the Met’s collection, added to a service called Gallery+ that holds more than five thousand works. In “gallery mode” the screen shows these works, or the owner’s own photographs, or images generated by AI.
The stated price and the unstated one. The fifty-five inch size starts at one thousand two hundred and ninety-nine dollars and ninety-nine cents, and comes with three free months of the paid Gallery+. How much the service costs after those three months, the announcement does not say.
Where it is sold now. The United States first, on the company’s own site. No schedule for other markets has been announced, and Kuwait is not in the announcement.
What is behind the frame. Mini LED backlighting and the company’s processor, a thin body that sits flat against the wall, magnetic frames changed by hand, and a white frame in the box.
The thing to notice is not the museum but the subscription: a device bought once, whose wall needs a recurring fee the company has not put a number on.
Photo: an empty picture frame on a wall. By Acabashi, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
Source: the LG press release of 25 August 2026.
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