You’re glad Lucy is having fun, but now that she’s kind of successful, maybe all that’s left for you are the scraps. By Kathy Lynch.

This is why we can't have nice things. By Liz Publika.

Online community speculates government pressure is behind the move

As children, many of us would have played with inanimate objects and integrated them into our fantasy adventures—perhaps a TV remote became a rocket, or a shoe was a steamboat. One artist who is keeping childhood imagination alive is San Francisco-based digital artist Eric Geusz, who turns everyday objects into spectacular spaceship designs.

Five pictures said to have been painted by Nazi leader Adolf Hitler have failed to sell at auction in Germany. Weidler auction house hoped to raise €45,000 (£40,000; $51,000) from the most expensive work. The auction was held in Nuremburg, the German city once notorious for Hitler's mass rallies where leading Nazis were later tried for war crimes. Accusations of forgery marred the auction and city mayor Ulrich Maly described it as being in "bad taste".

The title of richest person on Earth seems to ping-pong between tech titans every few years. But for all their wealth, Jeff Bezos or Bill Gates won’t come close to being the richest human of all time—that would mean besting people like Augustus Caesar who personally owned all of Egypt for a period or Song Dynasty Emperor Shenzong, whose domain at one point accounted for 25 to 30 percent of global GDP. But the wealthiest of them all is believed to be Mansa Musa, the ruler of the Mali Empire.

The mark is “the most convincing candidate for an authentic Leonardo fingerprint” among the Queen’s 550 works by the great artist

The figures are visible under UV light; other paintings may also have hidden drawings

A lead mineral called plumbonacrite was used to create a thick, paste-like paint.

This new app enables you to appreciate the works from the museums of the City of Paris in detail.

Edvard Munch's painting has become one of the most ubiquitous images on the planet.

Experimental psychology is providing concrete answers to some of the great philosophical debates about art and its meaning. By Ellen Winner.

Something in the new Oscar de la Renta boutique in Paris was not what it seemed.

Where are all the beautiful, powerful, black-skinned females from mythology and history? They were erased by Western art, argues Sophia Smith Galer.

Acrylics on canvas, 50 * 50 cm, made custom on request

Residents say Satan should be "despicable — not kind and seductive"

Hundreds of Arab Christians call for the removal of a crucified Ronald McDonald museum exhibit in Haifa city.

To highlight the waste material from discarded electronic parts, artist Zayd Menk is building a small-scale model of London's Westminster area solely out of e-waste.

Graphic design studio Super Terrain’s edition of Ray Bradbury’s sci-fi classic Fahrenheit-451 took the internet by storm, thanks to a video showing how its all-black pages become readable text when exposed to an open flame. (This will, and quite possibly should, also work with a hair dryer or something else not completely on fire.) And now, for only $451 — get it? — you can preorder one to keep on a specially-heated shelf in your home! If you have $451 to drop on an artist’s book, we figure you could have custom heated shelves.