paintings The dread-filled look in Ivan The Terrible's eyes sends a shiver down my spine every time I look in this painting. Popkin

art Astounding and weird aristocratic oil paintings from a smeared reality David Pescovitz

art Gritty posed for an official nude portrait Thom Dunn

art 31 Visions of Hell, Satan, and Demons, according to a 1775 book obsessed with genitals Thom Dunn

Art and Design Explore the famed faery painting of an artist dealing with mental illness in the mid-1800s Thom Dunn

paintings Painting from 1860 depicts a time traveler using her iPhone David Pescovitz

art Banksy's "Show Me the Monet" painting sells for nearly $10 million David Pescovitz

Funny Thrift store paintings "enhanced" with Star Wars elements David Pescovitz

art Why Warhol painted soup cans David Pescovitz

art Thomas Kinkade painting of toilet paper available as puzzle and print for charity David Pescovitz

History Man in 1937 painting appears to be staring at a smartphone David Pescovitz

art Self-portrait of van Gogh during psychotic episode, thought to have been a fake, deemed real David Pescovitz

art John Waters looks at modern art David Pescovitz

art Tim Biskup: new interview and book from the great pop surrealist David Pescovitz

paintings Where did all of Bob Ross' paintings go? Rusty Blazenhoff

art National Parks Service publishes hi-rez scans of Heinrich Berann's iconic, panoramic paintings of America's parks Cory Doctorow

art The "lost" Leonardo da Vinci painting has been found hanging in a yacht David Pescovitz

art "Invisible ink" features found in Basquiat painting David Pescovitz

Science An astronomer's beautiful pastel drawings of the cosmos from the 19th century David Pescovitz

art Translucent backlit fruit slices as fine art Andrea James