Kristy Puchko

Joined: Feb 19, 2014

Kristy is a New York-based entertainment journalist whose work has appeared on Vanity Fair, Time Out New York, Vulture, Pajiba, Spinoff Online, and Cinema Blend. She's also a co-host of the movie review video podcast Popcorn and Prosecco. When she's not falling down rabbit holes of research, she's playing board games, jamming out karaoke style, or advocating the glories of some cartoon show you aren't watching but should be.

15 Things You Should Know About ‘Dogs Playing Poker’

15 Things You Should Know About Michelangelo’s ‘Pietà’

Betty White at a Los Angeles Zoo event in 2015.

15 Amazing Facts About Betty White

10 Surprising Facts About René Magritte’s ‘The Son of Man’

22 Fun Facts About ‘Elf’

The classic Will Ferrell Christmas movie celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2023.

Hieronymus Bosch’s triptych ‘The Garden of Earthly Delights.’

15 Fascinating Facts About Hieronymus Bosch’s ‘The Garden of Earthly Delights’

The Garden of Earthly Delights is a piece so ripe with symbolism that it inspires intense curiosity more than 500 years after it was painted.

Bill Nighy stars in Love Actually (2003).

25 Surprising Facts About ’Love Actually’ for Its 20th Anniversary

Richard Curtis’s multi-layered romantic comedy has become a staple of holiday movie marathons.

Portion of ‘The Card Players,’ 1890–1892, by Paul Cezanne.

14 Things You Should Know About Paul Cézanne’s ‘The Card Players’

One of the paintings in the series was stolen from a museum and held for ransom. Another sold for a record-breaking price.

Jasper Johns’s ‘Flag’ on display at the Museum Of Modern Art.

15 Fascinating Facts About Jasper Johns’s ‘Flag’

American painter Jasper Johns shook up the art world by reconceptualizing common icons like targets, numbers, and letters—and it all began in 1954 with ‘Flag.’

Museum visitors admire Gustav Klimt’s ‘The Kiss.’

15 Things You Should Know About Gustav Klimt’s ‘The Kiss’

Gustav Klimt’s ‘The Kiss’ is a deceptively simple portrait of lust and love. But beyond that glittery gold leaf, the work is full of fascinating facts.

11 Fascinating Facts About Jackson Pollock’s ‘No. 5, 1948’

Even if you can’t appreciate this masterpiece's aesthetic, it has a history that’s worth its weight in house paint and stacks of cash.

There are said to be several White Ladies roaming the world.

15 Tales of Women Ghosts

Whether born of folklore or a historical tragedy, each of these ladies has a haunting tale.

A detail of Édouard Manet's ‘Le Déjeuner sur l’Herbe’

15 Facts About Édouard Manet’s ‘Le Déjeuner sur l’Herbe’ (‘Luncheon on the Grass’)

Today, ‘Luncheon on the Grass’ (or ‘Le Déjeuner sur l’Herbe’) is regarded as 19th century French painter Édouard Manet's greatest triumph.

Georges Seurat. A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884, 1884/86. The Art Institute of Chicago. Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection.

15 Facts About ‘A Sunday on La Grande Jatte—1884’

A close look at Georges-Pierre Seurat's 'A Sunday on La Grande Jatte—1884' reveals much more than a warm portrait of a sunny day in a lovely park.

‘The Persistence of Memory’ at a MoMA exhibit in Berlin.

14 Facts About Salvador Dalì’s ‘The Persistence Of Memory’

'The Persistence of Memory' is the most recognizable work by Salvador Dalì, who painted it in the midst of a hallucination.

16 Fascinating Facts About ‘Venus de Milo’

There’s much more to this iconic statue than a couple of absent appendages.