Ruth Leon recommends… Fran Lebowitz – Pretend It’s a Museum
UncategorizedFran Lebowitz – Pretend It’s a Museum
I really like this short video from the Met which allows the celebrated author and humourist Fran Lebowitz to go behind-the-scenes at the Met’s Paintings Conservation Lab to see Rembrandt’s Aristotle with a Bust of Homer (1653). Lebowitz’ writings outline the vicissitudes of contemporary urban life in New York —its fads, trends, crazes, morals, and fashions.
Always quirky and entertaining, here she contemplates the impossibility of choosing a favourite object in The Met’s collection. Along the way, she tells her favourite story of visiting the Met Museum as a child.
The original RCA issue of the Leinsdorf/BSO Ein Heldenleben used a reproduction of that painting on its cover
Thank you. Seeing that painting after so many years brought tears to my eyes.
Fran doesn’t comment on the painting, but predictably uses her 5 minutes to kvetch about somebody else.