I’ve discovered a little gem of a show on television. It’s called Simon Schama’s Power of Art and it has the narrator, Simon Schama, taking an hour to give you the background and history of our most important artists. Now, I do have to say that I find any sort of lecture/show about Art History endlessly fascinating (in other words, caveat emptor) but this show really takes each subject and makes them come alive. Makes you care about them. Makes you suffer along with them and feel elated at their triumphs.  Simon Schama is a master storyteller and a bit of a gossiper — he clearly has a gift for oratory — which is why he’s so much fun to watch and learn from.  I just wish I could sit in one of his lectures at Columbia University and just listen to him wax rhapsodic over art history. (Yes, I’m a girl who adores art.)  Go ahead and TiVo the next showing or look it up in TV Guide.  I promise you won’t be sorry. (And if you are, you can comment about it? or maybe not…) But at the very least, you can have bragging rights after impressing your friends during Jeopardy or Trivial Pursuit by knowing the masterpieces Caravaggio painted or the sculptures Bernini gifted to this world. Surely that alone is worth an hour of Simon Schama’s Power of Art.