We live at a time where a piece of art depicting dogs playing poker while puffing on cigars sells for $658,000, and a significant portion of the world doesn’t have access to running water.

My teenage son alerted me to the bestial ferocity of the artwork of Cassius Marcellus Coolidge. My son wasn’t a scholar of the arts. He was playing Fallout New Vegas Ultimate Edition, and the Bethesda team had created their homage to Coolidge by inserting an Easter Egg of one of his famous Dogs Playing Poker paintings within the game.

I don’t get art.

I try, I do.