--- title: Celebrities Share Google Art App Selfie Portrait Lookalikes description: According to Google's Arts and Culture app, Kristen Bell resembles an old man with a mustache. canonical: https://time.com/5105785/celebrity-google-art-selfies/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-01-17T18:25:36.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:49:48.561Z og:title: Celebrities Have Been Playing With The Google Art App, Too og:description: Google's Arts & Culture app says Kristen Bell is an old man with a mustache og:url: https://time.com/5105785/celebrity-google-art-selfies/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Celebrities Have Been Playing With The Google Art App, Too twitter:description: Google's Arts & Culture app says Kristen Bell is an old man with a mustache twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Celebrities Can't Stop Playing With the Google Art Lookalike Selfie App Either ## Video: Google's Newest Feature Is Great For Art Lovers [Watch (HLS stream): Google's Newest Feature Is Great For Art Lovers](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/XR6K8ctW.m3u8) (1:11)  _Published 2017-05-31. An update rolling out Wednesday will allow Street View museum-goers to read annotations about paintings, zoom in on high-resolution images, and more._ by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Jan 17, 2018 6:25 PM UTC by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Jan 17, 2018 6:25 PM UTC If you have been wondering who [Kristen Bell](http://time.com/4937240/kristen-bell-irma-on-kimmel/?iid=sr-link4) should play next, according to [Google’s Arts](http://techland.time.com/2011/02/01/google-art-project-launches-why-its-amazing/?iid=sr-link1) and Culture app, it’s German-born conductor, August Manns. _The Good Place_ star snapped a selfie with the Google app and it decided she had a 32% match to a John Pettie portrait of a mustachioed old man and the resemblance is truly remarkable. To play along, simply download the Google Arts & Culture app from either Google Play or the iTunes store. Once the app is installed, scroll until you see the “Is your portrait in a museum?” game. Click on it, snap a selfie (a.k.a. launch the facial recognition software) and it will surf through it’s massive database until it attempts to find your historical dead ringer, along with the exact percentage of how alike the two images are. [Kristen Bell](http://time.com/4639276/kristen-bell-teleprompter-fail/?iid=sr-link7) noted in her Instagram post that the results are dead on, which you can see in how the app told Kate Hudson she looks like Pierpont Limner’s “Portrait of a Boy”, Ryan Seacrest got a bearded Tintoretto portrait, Sarah Silverman’s “uncanny” celeb lookalike, and Minnie Driver’s eerie resemblance to Edvard Munch’s “The Scream”. While the app made some hilarious comparisons, occasionally it was able to track down celebrities artistic doppelgangers. See the museum results for Rachel Bilson, Kumail Nanjiani, Debra Messing, Constance Wu, and Zach Braff for yourself. > [](https://twitter.com/kumailn/status/952329304259489793) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5105785/celebrity-google-art-selfies/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5105785/celebrity-google-art-selfies/"},"headline":"Celebrities Can't Stop Playing With the Google Art Lookalike Selfie App Either","datePublished":"2018-01-17T18:25:36.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:49:48.561Z","description":"According to Google's Arts and Culture app, Kristen Bell resembles an old man with a mustache.","url":"https://time.com/5105785/celebrity-google-art-selfies/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Google","celebrities","apps"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5105785/celebrity-google-art-selfies/","name":"Celebrities Can't Stop Playing With the Google Art Lookalike Selfie App Either"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Google's Newest Feature Is Great For Art Lovers","description":"An update rolling out Wednesday will allow Street View museum-goers to read annotations about paintings, zoom in on high-resolution images, and more.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/XR6K8ctW/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2017-05-31T17:05:02.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/XR6K8ctW.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/5105785/celebrity-google-art-selfies/","duration":"PT1M11S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/5105785/celebrity-google-art-selfies/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```