Google lets you turn your phone into a virtual art gallery

For most of us, it's a long trip to see the works of Johannes Vermeer, the Dutch Golden Age painter behind Girl with a Pearl Earring.

Google is making those works accessible on your phone with its Arts and Culture app, where you can use augmented reality to visit a virtual art gallery full of Vermeer's works.

The pocket gallery is accessible in the Meet Vermeer section of the app, which compiles all of the painter's works in one multi-room exhibition, in what's been described as "the first ever international online retrospective" of Vermeer. Read more...