Cocktails with a Curator: Clodion's "Dance of Time"
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- In this week’s episode of “Cocktails with a Curator,” toast the new year with Deputy Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator Xavier F. Salomon as he examines a masterpiece of both sculpture and clockmaking: “The Dance of Time,” by Clodion (Claude Michel) and Jean-Baptiste Lepaute. In this 18th-century timepiece, three terracotta nymphs or Hours dance in a circle around an exquisite mechanism enclosed in a glass globe. The Frick has one of the country’s most important collections of clocks, many of which came to the museum through a gift from Winthrop Kellogg Edey. Welcome 2021 by raising a Metropolitan cocktail-Happy New Year!
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I love the way all the threads of art, culture, history and biography are woven together into such compelling programs every week. Thank you.
I love anything Clodion!
Happy New Year to all the Frick team! Such a great series! Raising my Bollinger to you all!
What I most appreciate about our guide Xavier's overview is how smart he makes me feel! He pulls together the many elements of my semi-educated frame of reference that actually prodded me to become a member of the Frick in the first place. (My many visits to the Louvre and the Wallace Collection have a purpose, after all, and my ongoing study of the classics makes that beautiful Poussin decipherable.) The tie-in to Warhol threw me for a loop. This episode could be extended by about ten hours and never run out of ideas! Thanks and Happy New Year!
Inspiring as always - but I think we need a session on Xavier's wonderfully mysterious shirt!
Yes, my thought as well. Sort of...Masonic perhaps? Floor length?
Every week I continue to be surprised by the extremely valuable presentations. Thank you! Elizabeth Fraser 🇨🇦
Thank you Xavier - I grew up in a house of clocks - over a hundred of them - and no they weren't all ticking at the same time - They are lovely little boxes that are alive when wound up but you have to pay attention to them and wind them regularly lest they go to sleep - and for anyone guessing that was a Klimt painting smock Xavier was wearing
inspiring presentation!
The dance of time, a perfect choice this evening. Happy New Year!
This definitely was a neatly conceptualized video. Happy many Years to come
Thank you! This was wonderful! Happy New Year to all.
Happy and Healthy New Year .Many Thanks!!
Happy New Year and thanks a lot for your great work during this difficult time!
As always a wonderful (albeit short feeling LOL) conversation with Xavier and the Frick collection. I did not realize that the Frick had one of the best collections of clocks in the US. Porcelain and clocks are my two passions! Of course, now I am loving classical paintings also. Thank you for the literary suggestions from Anthony Powell. I will zoom off to Amazon and see what I can find! Happy New Year to you, Xavier and always to beautiful Aimee. Sending you health, peace and joy for this New Year.
Many cheers to you, Xavier, and the Frick Team, throughout this very new year. When I review these, and the travels, from 2020, I’m filled with gratitude for your efforts. Bless your continued endeavours.
Thank you and happy new year!
Happy New Year. Great way to start it!
Happy 2021 to all those at the Frick.
I am also reminded of the piece of orchestral music "Dance of the Hours" from the opera by Ponchielli "La Gioconda" -made famous in Disney's "Fantasia" of course where ostriches and hippopotamuses do the dancing.
Kandinsky's Music of the Spheres and Magritte's Voice of Space, continuing on a theme.
@@susprime7018 I'm old enough to remember the parody of the Ponchielli piece -the 1960's song "Hello Fudda Hello Mudda."
@@susprime7018 I'm old enough to remember the parody of the Ponchielli piece -the 1960's song "Hello Fudda Hello Mudda."
@@kaloarepo288 "here I am at Camp Grenada."
Happy New Year! Xavier is such a wonderful teacher. I’m really enjoying these videos.
Happy New Year to all at the Frick but the presenters in particular. You have not only entertained but broadened my knowledge of art and for that I thank you. Looking forward to more videos and easier circumstances for you.
Amazing topic for today. Happy New Year !! 2021
Informative and very entertaining. Have a great New Year.
Happy New Year Y'all!!!
Merci! Tres interesant!
A very Happy New Year to all!
Splendid commentary as always. Cheers
Excellent! A great way of starting the year! I find the references to another works enticing. I have my list for research homework. Thank you The Frick and Xavier Solomon. Happy New Year!
Grazie per le spiegazioni sempre interessanti e piene di contenuti.
Gioioso 2021 per tutti.
Happy New Year!
Thimes of waches a god subject and l appriciate l love also antique waches.May bee what you schowed on the 5th avenue Passion of dances of the hours by Clodeon is the best on from the begenning also the main lock is a masterpiece..I have also a few waches may bee not as valuable like yours small leonardo bought in England an italian here and a small blue with 5 crowns playing blue danube.COllECTING HOPFUlly in a modest way not a sin.Ciao
The poetic work #sculpture #magnolias
This series has been brilliant, very many thanks to Dr Salomon and the Frick; I am concerned to see no mention of further episodes. Please can they be continued?
Dear Dr Solomon: Please consider doing an exposition on the life of proto-feminist Audrey Munson the model who appears reclining on the amazing lintel to the main entrance to your institution.Thank you for these talks they have kept me sane and I don’t drink!
www.frick.org/interact/miniseries/whats_her_story/audrey_munson This was done on 23.06.20 and should be available on youtube or via the Frick website. Enjoy!
Happy New Year
Thank you & Happy New Year to all the Frick staff who help to make Dr. Solomon's presentations so wonderfully informative.
Another fabulous lecture by Xavier. But I wish he had shown us how you tell time on this clock. Where's the big hand and the little hand? We have a 19th century French carriage clock we like very much.
It’s easier to see in the larger photos in the collection online (linked in the more info section just below the video above) but this clock doesn’t have a flat face with bug and little hands. The numbers are painted on the band around the circumference of the globe. I agree, it would have been interesting to see how you tell the time though.
@@jaydee5022 Thanks! I meant the comment about big and little hands as a joke, but I was curious how it told time. The history of clocks is interesting. Our carriage clock, we learned, was a big advance in "on time" delivery, by carriages. I love these Frick lectures, as well as the Frick, from far away Calif.
Huh - thus I display my own ignorance! I had to leave the video right at the start to go and look the clock up to see more detail. I don’t have a tv to cast onto so watch on a tiny screen & couldn’t see how the clock functions.
This is wonderful, but how did the clock work?
'God is time' .Joseph Brodsky, Watermark
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