I see Fran's name, I watch and am never disappointed.

@Eprosis

6 ай бұрын

Same. Fran is one of a kind.

@iancoulson5822

6 ай бұрын

Ditto ❤

@ivanklymenko

6 ай бұрын

😍

@angelatuck3673

6 ай бұрын

NEVER EVER.

@LeeEricsson

6 ай бұрын

Thought this was Gene Simmons

I don't think I've EVER seen Fran this happy before!

@nickbarcheck1019

6 ай бұрын

Right! I thought the same thing.

@headforthetropics

6 ай бұрын

Agree. Totally caught me off guard.

@davidlee4793

3 ай бұрын

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!

I would love this to become a series!

@bonaface

6 ай бұрын

how can the met find something dustier than fran lebowitz?

@gecko7167

6 ай бұрын

@@bonaface i- so rude. shes an icon. a dusty icon

“We live in a world where they applaud the price, not the Picasso.” Fran Lebowitz

Fran is my favorite thing at The Met now.

I want Fran to come out with an Anthony Bourdain’s parts unknown like series. I could watch her talk about anything for hours.

She seems so happy. I love Fran.

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 😊

I've never seen her so visibly happy.

That Rembrandt looked like it's glowing from the inside, it's amazing. Rembrandt's chiaroscuro is next level.

@pamm8608

2 ай бұрын

I wish she could have spoken more about the painting. The video could have been 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 need more Fran.

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.

@786Khany786

6 ай бұрын

Right!

@henrylivingstone2971

6 ай бұрын

There’s an Adam Savage Tested video when he visits the Met Arms and Armor Conservation lab where they show the Koranic chain mail

@ArtAboveReality

6 ай бұрын

This

@brijmsn

6 ай бұрын

How is that even possible?

@henrylivingstone2971

6 ай бұрын

@@brijmsn It’s chain mail and they’ve chiseled in lines of the Quran into each link

A treasure presenting a treasure.

She is probably my FAVORITE person.

More Fran on art and culture inside the institutions please

I need a three hour video of fran talking about art

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.

@stephaniemerlin1

3 ай бұрын

❤

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.

NEW FRAN CONTENT JUST DROPPED 📢📢📢

I LOVE Fran Lebowitz. She is so unpretentious and pure fun.

This should be a series. Also, Fran is always a gift. Thank you @TheMet

More Fran at The Met 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'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.

Fran Lebowirz is the best. Honest, amazing, unique, insight into life. Doesn't care what anyone thinks. I so admire her

Fran is just oozes cool.

I love Fran’s take on everything.

Fran! More gallery and museum talks! Please! I love your knowledgeable and humorous perspective!

LOL Fran. The second she opens her mouth, I start laughing. Great video. I love her anecdots and I love Rembrandt.

Thank you, Fran, for not having a favorite book! How can you choose just one? Thank you!!! 💕

This is my first experience with Fran and I'm loving it!!! She is awesome! This could have been 20 minutes longer 😄

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.

She's hilarious

Make it a series! I'd love to hear Fran commenting on the Met's assets

Well. Got my coffee break sorted. Never enough Fran. 💗

Ostensibly, she does have a favorite...this!

“ I’ve had apartments like that” 🤣

“Favorites are for children.” Bravo!

"Children have favorites". I love that.

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.

Let's Pretend it's a Series. (so it hopefully becomes one) 😅

@lindachicchi8505

2 ай бұрын

Her “Pretend it’s a City” I’ve watched several times.

So agree with her sentiment in this! I hate the question "What is your favorite _?" It's ridiculous!

@sg639

6 ай бұрын

She's right. It is a child's question/consideration. I hadn't thought of it that way until this moment.

@kareninthevalley

6 ай бұрын

That question has always stumped me, in exactly the way FL describes her issues with it. I thought i was the only one!

@OGRE_HATES_NERDS

6 ай бұрын

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

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.

Oh, to be Fran Lebowitz! How lucky to get to see that painting up close.

Fran, you are right on the mark again.

She is one of the coolest people on the planet. It would be a dream come true to have coffee with Fran!

Living legend ♥️

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".

@sustainfem

6 ай бұрын

😉

@pamm8608

2 ай бұрын

Probably The NY Post! Love their headlines.

Fran is a delight ❤

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.

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.

@lindachicchi8505

2 ай бұрын

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.

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!

Why is she just…simply…brilliant…❤

What an awesome experience…

I've had these conversations with intelligent people who really didn't get it. Thanks, Fran.

Fran is such a classic NYer. And with a Rembrandt...this video is perfect!

Thank you for this! We need more Fran content.

Please make more of these.

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 😄

This is all I need in life.

Fran's the world's best docent :)

She is my FAVORITE! 😂❤

love you fran you're doing awesome

More from Fran please!

People who restore art have amazing, and unsung talents! More videos interviewing them please!

Absolutely wonderful story. LOVE Fran!

This is amazing. More, please.

I love this woman

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.

I need more Fran in my life

Thanks so much … fantastic!

That was purely joyful to watch

Thanks for this, Fran brings back my life in NYC and how much I love the Met❤️ Beautiful cleaning of the painting ❣️

Fran is such a treasure!!

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.

Love you Mss.Fran

If this painting ever goes missing, we’ll know where to find it

@larryo6874

6 ай бұрын

😂

What a lovely story wrapped around with a great end. I love Fran and yes you can see she was delighted haha

Enjoyed this thank u very much.

I love her and I love this! Thank you for posting it. 🎨🖌

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. 🤷🏼‍♀️

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.

we get Fran & a Rembrandt, need to hear more about how the cleaning is done

@mikel1814

6 ай бұрын

Q tips and water

@jkdw

6 ай бұрын

@@mikel1814 not water

@sustainfem

6 ай бұрын

In another video I watched, Fran said they used turpentine (obviously, very very carefully).

❤

What a marvel! Beautiful painting too.

She's so great!!!

A lovely commentary

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.

Fascinating, honest, enjoyable, hilarious, insightful, curious, cheeky, fun, charming, vivacious... I need to look for more Fran Lebowitz 💖

@jaqatlantic

6 ай бұрын

Perfectly expressed!

I just adored this video. Thank you ever so much for sharing! Always a delight to see Fran. ❤️

Please more of this

I always enjoy a few minutes with Fran. Great little video!

I support Fran’s perspective on favorites

Fran is just so insightful. Love her stories! She is awesome indeed!!

i will watch a series with Fran in The Met.

That was marvelous, just a wonderful surprise in a time of so much stress and sadness. Thank you #themet!