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Find Your Museum Doppelganger

Some people have been lucky enough to find themselves in paintings at art museums.

Museum Doppelgangers

Museum Doppelgangers

Museum Doppelgangers

Now the Google Arts & Culture app lets you take a selfie and find your own art doppelganger. The results are kinds iffy โ€” even when making my best Jesus-suffering-on-the-cross face, I couldn’t get it to match me with an actual Passion painting โ€” but you can see some of the results here.

See also Stefan Draschan’s photos of people matching artworks.

Update: And the NY Times is on it!