art The Rijksmuseum's Vermeer show is sold out. Here's one you CAN see Bob Knetzger

art Gentleman glues his head to Vermeer's "Girl With a Pearl Earring" Mark Frauenfelder

oil paintings Explore this 10 billion pixel scan of Vermeer's Girl With a Pearl Earring Mark Frauenfelder

art Drew Friedman's latest book: Shtick Figures: The Cool, the Comical, the Crazy Mark Frauenfelder

gadgets Ruined 1993 Thinkpad tablet lovingly restored Rob Beschizza

art How to paint in the renaissance style, with actual paint Rob Beschizza

Comic Books "Drew Friedman: Vermeer of the Borscht Belt" — documentary tracing the artist's evolution from underground comics to the cover of The New Yorker Mark Frauenfelder

Kirsten Anderson Meet lowbrow art maven Kirsten Anderson Bob Knetzger

art French artist collages war photos from Ukraine into classical paintings Gareth Branwyn

art "Bored" security guard fixes $1m painting so its faceless characters have eyes Rob Beschizza

art Restored Vermeer uncovers cherub, penis Rob Beschizza

tabloids Predator priests, Game of Thrones, and why Italians don't use Viagra, in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

generators Portmanteau generator Rob Beschizza

Nancy Jerry Lewis's last (Fore)Words Paul Karasik and Mark Newgarden

futility closet Dismissed by critics, Dutch painter Han van Meegeren set out to avenge himself by creating "the ultimate forgery" Futility Closet

Drew Friedman Upcoming documentary about artist Drew Friedman Mark Frauenfelder

art Who is this man? Grainy footage could solve $500m art heist Rob Beschizza

Funny A walk through art history, told in a series of imaginative shoe designs Xeni Jardin

art Vermeer's paintings might be 350 year-old color photographs Tim Jenison