Fran Lebowitz: Pretend It’s a Museum
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 พ.ย. 2023
- Fran Lebowitz goes behind-the-scenes to The Met’s Paintings Conservation Lab to see Rembrandt’s “Aristotle with a Bust of Homer” (1653). Along the way, she tells her favorite story of visiting The Museum and contemplates the impossibility of choosing a favorite object in The Met’s collection.
You can view Rembrandt’s “Aristotle with a Bust of Homer” (1653) in our European Paintings Galleries.
Watch the video:
www.metmuseum.org/perspective...
Artworks:
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) (Dutch, Leiden 1606-1669). “Aristotle with a Bust of Homer,” 1653. Oil on canvas, 56 1/2 x 53 3/4 in. (143.5 x 136.5 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, special contributions and funds given or bequeathed by friends of the Museum, 1961 (61.198)
Learn more: www.metmuseum.org/art/collect...
Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973). “Gertrude Stein,” 1905-6. Oil on canvas, 39 3/8 × 32 in. (100 × 81.3 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Bequest of Gertrude Stein, 1946 (47.106) © 2023 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Learn more: www.metmuseum.org/art/collect...
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I see Fran's name, I watch and am never disappointed.
Same. Fran is one of a kind.
Ditto ❤
😍
NEVER EVER.
Thought this was Gene Simmons
I don't think I've EVER seen Fran this happy before!
Right! I thought the same thing.
Agree. Totally caught me off guard.
And, now we know that Fran Leibowitz, believing '...favorites are for children,' is TERRIBLY fond of The Met. Wonderful to see this remarkable person beaming!
“We live in a world where they applaud the price, not the Picasso.” Fran Lebowitz
Fran Lebowirz is the best. Honest, amazing, unique, insight into life. Doesn't care what anyone thinks. I so admire her
I would love this to become a series!
how can the met find something dustier than fran lebowitz?
@@bonaface i- so rude. shes an icon. a dusty icon
I want Fran to come out with an Anthony Bourdain’s parts unknown like series. I could watch her talk about anything for hours.
Fran is my favorite thing at The Met now.
I met Fran last year in Oxford. It was such a pleasure to speak to her and she even drew the loveliest doodle in my copy of the Fran Lebowitz Reader. What a woman!
any video that contains "Fran Lebowitz" in the title - I'm clicking on it 😊
She seems so happy. I love Fran.
That Rembrandt looked like it's glowing from the inside, it's amazing. Rembrandt's chiaroscuro is next level.
I wish she could have spoken more about the painting. The video could have been longer.
I've never seen her so visibly happy.
This should be a series. Also, Fran is always a gift.
Thank you @TheMet
I need a three hour video of fran talking about art
More Fran on art and culture inside the institutions please
Wonderful. Yes! Let´s have Fran be a regular MET commentator- each week/month a different part of the museum. How fabulous would that be?
I need more Fran.
I LOVE Fran Lebowitz. She is so unpretentious and pure fun.
More Fran at The Met please!!! 🙌🙌
She is probably my FAVORITE person.
i had the honor of crossing paths with Ms. Leibowitz on 61st St., and said Hello Ann. The moment comes to me in the middle of the night. if i could i would like to apologize for this momentary lapse in reason.
❤
I love Fran’s take on everything.
A treasure presenting a treasure.
LOL Fran. The second she opens her mouth, I start laughing. Great video. I love her anecdots and I love Rembrandt.
NEW FRAN CONTENT JUST DROPPED 📢📢📢
This is my first experience with Fran and I'm loving it!!! She is awesome! This could have been 20 minutes longer 😄
All I needed was to see Fran Lebowitz. Done, She's an icon.
Your favorite story also told a Marvelous story about you...
You at your core, even from childhood, had a discernment and unique sensibility, which applies to all you say and do. Thank you.
I'd like to sit down and have a cup of coffee with Fran and just... yak about this and that. I think it would be time well spent.
Make it a series! I'd love to hear Fran commenting on the Met's assets
I have no real education in art but whenever I see a Rembrandt, I instantly know whose work I'm looking at. Something about the murky backgrounds and the quality of light hitting the face in a certain way.
Well. Got my coffee break sorted. Never enough Fran. 💗
“ I’ve had apartments like that” 🤣
Thank you, Fran, for not having a favorite book! How can you choose just one? Thank you!!! 💕
Fran! More gallery and museum talks! Please! I love your knowledgeable and humorous perspective!
"Children have favorites". I love that.
Fran is just oozes cool.
Yes, I do have a favorite at the Met - Vermeer’s Girl with a Water Jug because of the way Vermeer used light sources to capture the moment in a way that no one had done previously. And yes, it is a favorite, I still have that childlike wonder about art and do not apologize for it - sad for those who don’t and feel rather superior and smug.
“Favorites are for children.” Bravo!
I have a favorite joke about "Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer".
Aristotle Onassis visited LA to make an offer for Buster Keaton's Home.
A NY paper ran a headline which said -- Aristotle Contemplating the Home of Buster".
😉
Probably The NY Post! Love their headlines.
I absolutely adored this. if we could possibly get more of Fran at the Met, or Fran doing anything really, I would most appreciate it!
Ostensibly, she does have a favorite...this!
Oh, to be Fran Lebowitz! How lucky to get to see that painting up close.
Lol. I would have one favorite thing at the met. My favorite painting since i first saw it. Starry night... i almost took a flight to new york. Explicitly. Just to see it finally. I flew to detroit to study the van gogh exhibit last january. Starry night was the first van gogh i ever saw. I was 6 i think. Id run around museums and just love art. Then i was at a thrift store with my mom and i found a very small starry night printed on an object. I ran back to her with it and asked what is this?! I still to this day. Love that painting. Not just for the memory.
So agree with her sentiment in this! I hate the question "What is your favorite _?" It's ridiculous!
She's right. It is a child's question/consideration. I hadn't thought of it that way until this moment.
That question has always stumped me, in exactly the way FL describes her issues with it. I thought i was the only one!
my favorite movie is monty pythons meaning of life but if you asked me 2 weeks ago i would have said barry lyndon. if you ask me in 2 more weeks i will likely have a different answer
She's hilarious
Fran is such a classic NYer. And with a Rembrandt...this video is perfect!
Fran, you are right on the mark again.
Living legend ♥️
She is one of the coolest people on the planet. It would be a dream come true to have coffee with Fran!
Absolutely wonderful story. LOVE Fran!
Why is she just…simply…brilliant…❤
Let's Pretend it's a Series. (so it hopefully becomes one) 😅
Her “Pretend it’s a City” I’ve watched several times.
I totally agree with Fran on the favorite things people ask , just to see where you fit your in their own conceptional system of classification.
Thanks for this, Fran brings back my life in NYC and how much I love the Met❤️ Beautiful cleaning of the painting ❣️
People who restore art have amazing, and unsung talents! More videos interviewing them please!
Thank you for this! We need more Fran content.
More from Fran please!
Fran is a delight ❤
Aristotle with a bust of Homer is the most grandiose painting ever created. I do have a favorite of the met and of those ever created, and it is this very painting.
I’m a bit younger than Fran. I’m 68 so I know the early 60’s. Maybe because there was barely television we have stories. We observed people and our surroundings. I can recall details so I have a story about everything. I have to dial it down because sometimes people don’t want you to remember the details of their lives. I know my brother hates it.
Yes, those stories make our lives richer. I love it when people share. With Fran, she go anywhere, and talk about anything and I’m fascinated.
Please make more of these.
This is all I need in life.
She is my FAVORITE! 😂❤
Fran's the world's best docent :)
Okay, I loved this but you can’t just mention a suit of armor with the entire Koran inscribed on it and NOT give us a video on that.
Right!
There’s an Adam Savage Tested video when he visits the Met Arms and Armor Conservation lab where they show the Koranic chain mail
This
How is that even possible?
@@brijmsn
It’s chain mail and they’ve chiseled in lines of the Quran into each link
I love Fran. I can't believe I've never been to the Met. I live outside of Philly and have been to NYC many times. I need to plan a trip.
What an awesome experience…
I need more Fran in my life
I love her and I love this! Thank you for posting it. 🎨🖌
This is amazing. More, please.
I’m so glad that, when Fran was talking about being so happy to see it without glass in front of it, that it didn’t occur to her that she was wearing glasses 😄
Fran is such a treasure!!
What a lovely story wrapped around with a great end. I love Fran and yes you can see she was delighted haha
That was purely joyful to watch
love you fran you're doing awesome
What a marvel! Beautiful painting too.
I just adored this video. Thank you ever so much for sharing! Always a delight to see Fran. ❤️
Enjoyed this thank u very much.
I love this woman
I agree, looking at the brush strokes in person at the Louvre was mesmerizing. Just to be close to a painting on canvas where the painter sat less than arms length to paint it. I was fortunate enough to see an exhibit in Washington DC of Rembrandt’s sketches. It also housed many of his later work painting portraits of wealthy family members. It was amazing to see his earliest sketches and engravings he did of common folk. It was also downright spooky to see life size paintings of family members hanging in the same hall. I got the feeling they were watching me, or perhaps I was interrupting them. 🤷🏼♀️
I always enjoy a few minutes with Fran. Great little video!
The Met is by far the best museum I've ever been to and I'm spoiled living in Washington DC. Now on to the Louvre.
She's so great!!!
I've had these conversations with intelligent people who really didn't get it. Thanks, Fran.
Fran is just so insightful. Love her stories! She is awesome indeed!!
If this painting ever goes missing, we’ll know where to find it
😂
Thanks so much … fantastic!
fantastic
I am so with her on this "favorite thing" thing. Like picking your "favorite" song: I like so many different songs in so many different genres it absurd to pick just one. I also get irked when I hear "world's first" something, like city or book. How do they know it's the "world's first"? Have they dug up ever square inch of this planet to be sure they've found " the first"? I think not.
Please more of this
we get Fran & a Rembrandt, need to hear more about how the cleaning is done
Q tips and water
@@mikel1814 not water
In another video I watched, Fran said they used turpentine (obviously, very very carefully).
That was marvelous, just a wonderful surprise in a time of so much stress and sadness. Thank you #themet!
Fascinating, honest, enjoyable, hilarious, insightful, curious, cheeky, fun, charming, vivacious... I need to look for more Fran Lebowitz 💖
Perfectly expressed!
Love you Mss.Fran
love this, more please!!!
That is a great story, Fran. I have a Met story from 2009. My wife and I were in the museum and we wanted to see the display on the roof. We had never been on the roof before and went up to two staff members in the hallway and I asked the woman, "How do we get to the roof exhibit?" Her response was, "Well, what do you think?" We were so taken aback that we were speechless. We wandered off and found it on our own.
I support Fran’s perspective on favorites
A lovely commentary
Loved this--thank you!