Tablet Computers Transform The Art World

“During the latest Art Basel [fair], a collector agreed to buy a $250,000 painting – while sitting in a hair salon in Los Angeles, looking at the work on her tablet. These days, anyone with an iPad can create their own Damien Hirst painting, thanks to an app from the Gagosian Gallery … Some museum and gallery apps allow visitors to zoom in on a work for a closer look than they would get with the naked eye.”