This would be cute enough if it had been a five-minute YouTube video, but Penn & Teller think they're making a grand statement about art. It has an 89% critical approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, which just goes to show that a lot of people will swallow anything as long as it appears authoritative and isn't explicitly coded as right-wing.
Tim Jenison, a Texas based inventor, attempts to solve one of the greatest mysteries in all art: How did Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer manage to paint so photo-realistically 150 years before the invention of photography? Spanning a decade, Jenison's adventure takes him to Holland, on a pilgrimage to the North coast of Yorkshire to meet artista David Hockney, and eventually even to Buckingham Palace. The epic research project Jenison embarques on is as extraordinary as what he discovers.