Pop Culture As Seen on ‘The Office’: A Beloved Watercolor of a Paper Company The painting hung in the Dunder Mifflin offices for six seasons. By Vittoria Benzine, May 24, 2024
Pop Culture As Seen on ‘Nocturnal Animals’: A Gallery of Works That Blur Art and Life The artworks in the Tom Ford film reflected the emotions of the characters as much as an art-world hauteur. By Tim Brinkhof, May 22, 2024
Pop Culture As Seen on ‘Solaris’: A 16th-Century Masterpiece in Space A Bruegel painting beloved by director Andrei Tarkovsky plays a haunting role. By Min Chen, May 17, 2024
Pop Culture As Seen on ‘Melrose Place’: Mel Chin’s Guerilla Art Project Conceptual artist Mel Chin was looking the perfect gallery space. He found it on "Melrose Place." By Tim Brinkhof, May 15, 2024
Pop Culture As Seen on ‘Twin Peaks’: Not One, Not Two, But Three Venus Statues The sculptures lend a further touch of the unknown to David Lynch’s beloved TV series. By Tim Brinkhof, May 11, 2024
Pop Culture As Seen On ‘Seinfeld’: Cosmo Kramer Gets the Portrait Treatment “He is a loathsome, offensive brute," reflects a patron about the work. "Yet I can’t look away.” By Tim Brinkhof, May 8, 2024
Pop Culture As Seen on ‘Titanic’: A Picasso That Did Not Go Down With the Ship The appearance of the painting in the blockbuster film did not sit well with Picasso's estate. By Tim Brinkhof, May 7, 2024
Pop Culture As Seen on ‘Bram Stoker’s Dracula’: A Vampire’s Self-Portrait in the Style of Dürer The Renaissance artist's iconic painting lends a hidden storytelling element. By Adnan Qiblawi, May 3, 2024
Pop Culture As Seen on ‘Stuart Little’: A Long-Lost Hungarian Masterpiece A Róbert Berény painting was deemed lost—until it turned up on the set of a film about a talking mouse. By Patrick Sproull, May 1, 2024
Pop Culture As Seen on ‘Alien’: H.R. Giger’s Biomorphic Nightmare The Swiss artist's iconic Xenomorph set the tone for Ridley Scott's sci-fi horror. By Tim Brinkhof, Apr 26, 2024
Pop Culture As Seen on ‘The Crown’: A Churchill Portrait Despised by Its Sitter The work was destroyed within a year of its unveiling. By Brian Boucher, Apr 18, 2024
Pop Culture As Seen on ‘Eyes Wide Shut’: The Floral Still Lifes of Christiane Kubrick Also, a cat painting by the director's daughter, Katharina Kubrick. By Tim Brinkhof, Apr 13, 2024
Pop Culture As Seen on ‘Ripley’: The Brutal Art and Life of Caravaggio The Netflix series leans on a number of the artist’s paintings to tell the tale of a young conman. By Min Chen, Apr 9, 2024
Pop Culture As Seen on ‘Goodfellas’: A Wise Guy’s Amateur Art Criticism The beloved scene at Tommy’s mother’s house features a painting based on a photo from "National Geographic." By Brian Boucher, Apr 6, 2024
Pop Culture As Seen on ‘Parasite’: The Abstract Drawings of a Child Prodigy The childlike artworks were created by real-life artist Zibezi. By Tim Brinkhof, Apr 2, 2024
