No. A screen will never replicate the glory of a physical piece of art you can hang on your wall. But since having any variety of original artwork is prohibitively expensive, the prospect of a TV simulacrum is getting more enticing every year. LG is the latest company hoping to entice art lovers with a massive art screen, called the Gallery TV.
LG just announced plans to showcase its latest screen type alongside its other TVs and monitors at CES 2026 in January. Otherwise, the news is light on details. The Gallery TV will be available in 4K with 55- and 65-inch models to start. The screen will come with a white, magnetically attached frame bezel to make the work appear more authentic when hanging on your wall. The TV is using the α7 AI Processor, the same mid-range chip found in the LG OLED B2, A2, QNED90, QNED85, and QNED80. Unfortunately, LG’s not sharing any pricing details or a release date.
Like all art TVs, the Gallery TV uses a mini LED screen type. A screen like this uses a matte overlay on the LCD panel to reduce glare and create a pseudo canvas-like appearance. This combines with the TV’s “Gallery Mode” that is meant to optimize the color and brightness to replicate the intricacies of original artwork. The TV is supposed to support LG Gallery+, a subscription service containing more than 4,500 pieces of art. Of course, you can use it to display your family photos on a loop. Alternatively, you could use an AI art generator to craft some awful facsimiles of the work of real artists. You can be sure all visitors to your home will rightfully judge you for your poor taste.
LG finally joins Samsung, TCL, and Hisense in offering canvas TVs
LG promises to have a “full Art TV lineup” at CES in 2026. LG Gallery+ is already available if you own one of the company’s TVs. There’s a free “light” version available plus a paid version offering more artworks. Back in August, LG announced that users would have access to some paintings found in London’s National Gallery, including Georges Seurat’s “Bathers at Asnières.” Gallery+ also uses the TVs sensors to adjust the clarity and brightness depending on the ambient light level.
Samsung, which started the canvas TV craze back in 2017, eventually followed its The Frame TV with The Frame Pro in 2025 (you can’t forget the “The” in the name, like the hyphen in Spider-Man). By that time, several other cheaper TV brands had tried their hand at a canvas TV. TCL unveiled its NXTVision and NXTVision Pro screens. Last March, Hisense brought out larger Canvas TV models at 75 and 85 inches. This past month, Hisense pushed a new S5 DécoTV meant to offer a similar picture frame level of quality at a lower resolution and a smaller, 32-inch scale.
Overall, LG may be late to the party. However, it’s sitting on an opportunity to expand the potential sizes of The Frame-style screens beyond the big honking TVs that consume an entire living room. Here’s to hoping the Korean TV giant can showcase a few smaller, monitor-sized models more useful to those of us living in small apartments.
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