Tate brings Joan Miro exhibition to the iPhone

Your phone may well already serve as an mp3 player, camera, address book and have any number of other app-fueled uses, so it’s little surprise to see art gallery guidebook added to the list.

This week the Tate launched an iPhone/iPad app for its retrospective of the Spanish surrealist painter Joan Miro.

An interesting use of the technology, it’s the Tate’s third exhibition app – following themed apps for its Gauguin and Muybridge shows last year – and is intended as part visitor guide, part memento.