Bill Nighy explores The Courtauld Gallery (2023)

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11 ай бұрын

The Courtauld Gallery is home to one of the world's greatest art collections, located in the magnificent historical setting of Somerset House in Central London.
Join actor and friend of The Courtauld Gallery, Bill Nighy, as he returns to the Gallery following its three year refurbishment, designed by Stirling Prize-winning architects Witherford Watson Mann, and discover our world-renowned collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterpieces.
Highlights on display include the world-famous A Bar at the Folies Bergère by Édouard Manet, Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear by Vincent van Gogh, the most significant collection of works by Paul Cézanne in the UK and works by Degas, Gauguin, Monet, Seurat and more.
The Courtauld Gallery is open daily, 10am - 6pm (last entry 5:15pm).
Tickets from £10.
Friends go free.
courtauld.ac.uk/gallery

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@philipmcbride1275 20 күн бұрын

Bill is such a treasure!

@janewatkins9801 Ай бұрын

35 years ago I saw Bill Nighy walking towards me on Fifth Avenue. I smiled at him and he returned my smile as he passed. For me it was a magical moment. An English tourist on holiday in New York, I was five months pregnant, and his smile caught me by surprise. I don't expect he remembers, there's no reason why he should, yet his smile made my day. So glad he has had such a wonderful career. I enjoyed this video very much too. The Manet painting with the barmaid at the end is intriguing. Like many women, it's possible she's thinking about five things at once 😊.

@SeanOHanlon 17 күн бұрын

Funny coincidence. I met him ever so briefly while I was in New York on holiday about 15 years ago. He was every bit as lovely as you would imagine.

@NigelDeForrest-Pearce-cv6ek 17 күн бұрын

Brilliant and Beautiful!!!!

@victoriabroyles6467 Ай бұрын

Perfect presenter - the wonderful Bill Nighy

@vivienneflint6521 18 күн бұрын

A wonderful advertisement for the gallery by a true English gentleman. So enjoyable. I will definitely make time to visit the next time I am in London.

@sandrayuen9497 Күн бұрын

How wonderful! Now on my bucket list. Thank you Bill! 😊

@MTMF.london 11 ай бұрын

I'll have cake and tea with Bill Nighy any time, any day. It doesn't have to be at the Courtauld - heck, I'll even pay!

@christinahand973 Ай бұрын

If this ever happens for you please extend an invite. An hour’s tea and conversation with this man would be the highlight of my year!

@janandrews1324 24 күн бұрын

I'd even serve the tea x

@jaimeochoa7256 22 күн бұрын

You better!

@juliapertusini8050 18 күн бұрын

Me too ❤

@mariaroca5762 10 сағат бұрын

Love, love this man

@russellhayton6378 19 күн бұрын

That staircase is a work of art

@gigibenea3529 15 күн бұрын

The blue 🔵 is amazing

@DJKSB58 6 күн бұрын

The impeccably dressed elegant Bill Nighy walking up that exquisite staircase took my breath away ! Poetry in motion

@Hornbill2025 8 ай бұрын

"I'm slowly tempted to accept that offer." Having tea and a good conversation with Bill Nighy about literature, history, or something else. Will be a fantastic memory and story to tell some day 😊

@joecleveland2338 Ай бұрын

I went to the Courtauld today (April 13, 2024) and spent three wonderful intimate hours with incredible works of art.

@lorawaring883 29 күн бұрын

I greatly enjoyed his pleasure in the art. Could he do more, please?

@r8chlletters Ай бұрын

What a wonderful moment with Bill 🤍

@andrewberry6194 Ай бұрын

The Courtauld is one of the world’s treasures, I first visited many years ago whilst a student at the old Senate House home of the Institute of Education and couldn’t believe it. It’s old home was much smaller and hardly advertised but amazing. So pleased it has a home worthy of its treasures.

@lesleymcshanemitchell9651 Ай бұрын

Love this museum And To Have BILL NYE Narrator the icing on the cake

@oscarfeatherstone6688 Ай бұрын

Nighy. Nye is someone rather different.

@jeanwillis7774 Ай бұрын

I’ve been to the Courtauld Gallery in London UK years ago and Bill is right,it’s stunning I love the Degas and Manet too…thanks for the memory Bill ♥️🇨🇦

@simongardner1835 10 ай бұрын

The inimitable Mr Nighy on the incomparable Courtauld Gallery. "It doesn't get any better then this!"

@edwardb7811 Ай бұрын

The Great Room at the Courtauld Gallery is probably my favorite room anywhere in the world.

@melhoad5221 Ай бұрын

I love art but l love Bill Nighy even more ❤❤❤

@rangerjaxmaxmay7742 Ай бұрын

Absolutely.

@jeannedeutrom8373 12 күн бұрын

Hear! Hear!❤️

@DJKSB58 6 күн бұрын

The ever so elegant, impeccably dressed Bill Nighy walking up that magnificent staircase is in itself a “work of art”

@richardbaoh1952 Ай бұрын

I was introduced to Bill N late in my life 5 - 6 years ago and I am stuck to Bill now to All his movies. Lovely and amazing actor. Fab watching Bill. Keep coming with your movies mate…..

@cristinalacoste2062 Ай бұрын

He's the best!

@tanyamccann1747 17 күн бұрын

Thanks, Bill

@irwinsaltzman979 Ай бұрын

Mr. Nighy was fabulous in the Dr. Who VAn Gogh episode.

@SeanOHanlon 17 күн бұрын

Yes... 👏👏👏

@CyberBeep_kenshi 7 күн бұрын

my thought wqs that This was the whole reason Doctor Who existed. aslo fun fact, they both play elder vampires in Underworld:)

@shankarbalakrishnan2360 10 күн бұрын

❤❤🎉🎉 art stays with u

@donnarogers7732 14 күн бұрын

I'm grateful to Mr Night for showing us this gallery. It's the only way I will ever be able to catch a glimpse of beautiful are Work from centuries past. So much in my life I've Missed. Too late to travel. Thank you. 🇺🇲🙏🇬🇧

@paulaolson8956 Ай бұрын

I burst into tears seeing van Gogh’s self portrait. I got up close and personal, like my nose almost touching the painting.

@barbaram5214 Ай бұрын

I’ve heard of The Courtauld but never knew much about it. Next trip to London in December, I’ll visit it!

@lynneperry7454 27 күн бұрын

I took my husband there some years back when we were in the UK. I knew what a fabulous great awaited us and wasn’t at all disappointed.

@michaelw7438 25 күн бұрын

The incomparable Bill Nighy - more than a national treasure 😻

@jeannedeutrom8373 12 күн бұрын

ABSOLUTELY!❤️

@PS-vm3we 27 күн бұрын

I saw the fabulous Bill Nighy in a bookshop nine years ago and am still starstruck. Might visit the Courtauld Gallery just to honour him.

@BillPeschel 29 күн бұрын

I can still hear Bill saying, "Let's get p----- and watch p---" from "Love, Actually." Beautiful gallery. Now on my "must-see" list for September '24.

@CaptCanuck4444 29 күн бұрын

I'd happily watch Bill Nighy riff like this at feature film length.

@jenniferclyde8911 Ай бұрын

You could have Bill Nighy walking through literally anything, describing it, and I’d watch. So this was almost too much. And as an ad? Yeah I’m going to the fricking Courtauld the next time I can

@msmacmac1000 Ай бұрын

I am heading for London on Monday. Meet me at the Courtauld, Ms Nighy❤

@AyoHues Ай бұрын

Thank you for the nudge. 🙏🏽 Well overdue another visit - I shall go in the next week or so. The best thing about this very appealling advert is that I can send it to my mates and my kids, all of whom will pay much more attention to Bill Nighy than they ever will to me! 😆

@kingman.mp4 Ай бұрын

I've already "liked" this once. If I could, I'd "like" it again.

@lurajur7075 Ай бұрын

I love Courtauld Gallery, and the more I see of him I love Bill Nighy

@RyanJohnsonD 28 күн бұрын

Sold. Subscribed! No cake needed. :)

@philipmurphy2 Ай бұрын

Really enjoying my first experience of The Courtauld on YT today

@dollimelaine Ай бұрын

the Courtauld is my favorite too!

@nick28476 24 күн бұрын

you don't get a drier sense of humour than Bill's. Superb!

@belshah 11 ай бұрын

Wonderful. Thank you

@chrissyward5539 10 ай бұрын

Went last August for the Munch exhibit. What a great collection in a historical space.

@johnblackmore4772 Ай бұрын

Fantastic looking gallery. What a beautiful space. I'm looking forward to visiting as soon as I'm up that way again.

@joannascott832 11 ай бұрын

Brilliant ❤! I used to come every week when I lived in London to 'look at' or observe 'The Bar at the Folies Bergere' for an essay on female subjects in paintings ❤🖌🎨🖼 ❤.

@priscidali 11 ай бұрын

Love that painting! I've wanting to go back and see it.

@vasileioskavros3798 29 күн бұрын

The "bestest" gallery I've ever seen in my life 😍❤😮

@DelphiaStrickland 29 күн бұрын

Bill Nighy: If I'm here, I'll buy you cake. Me, in the US: *buys any plane ticket available to get me there*

@kbstabs5982 Ай бұрын

I'm from London but have lived in Canada for many years. I used to travel back a lot on business and always hoped to find the time to make a quick visit to see the wonderful Modigliani painting.

@caroledrury1411 Ай бұрын

Amazing! I’ll fly over tomorrow!

@danielwilliams8397 Ай бұрын

Just wonderful!

@floravesterberg646 11 ай бұрын

Brilliant xx

@letstalkbigfootbylindanewt36 10 ай бұрын

LOVED IT ALL.

@tomkent4656 11 ай бұрын

I love the Courtauld.

@us-Bahn 28 күн бұрын

Bill, my legs are tired. Let’s go for a leisurely caf and afterwards a long dawdle in a used book shop.

@cristinavianna7871 22 күн бұрын

And lovely scones

@TravelStyleNews 26 күн бұрын

Im heanding there when I can, Thanks

@andrewharris1837 23 күн бұрын

Nighy could talk the phonebook and it would be fascinating 😅

@FreshGrey-pm4vw Ай бұрын

I adore Bill in Page Eight in which he plays an English spy (and the other 2 parts). If you havent seen this, you need to! Its fantastic.

@dustyeyer3573 11 ай бұрын

That guy is the best😂

@owennovenski4794 27 күн бұрын

Cheers

@ShakilaTaranumMaan Ай бұрын

I'll buy cake and tea dear Bill

@gregorystrong2580 8 ай бұрын

The music fits the narrative perfectly. What is the name of the composition?

@christopherlawley1842 Ай бұрын

Anitra's Dance from the Peer Gynt suite by Grieg .

@user-sk1jj6zg5w 26 күн бұрын

We know Bill Nighy really loves the Modigliani in the corner.

@sanyuktashrestha 11 ай бұрын

🤩🤩🤩

@ErnieCG 10 ай бұрын

Good

@theartbroadcast Ай бұрын

This is it

@giftykoufie2767 11 ай бұрын

humorous ending 😂

@genevievedolan1288 21 күн бұрын

How much is the entrance fee for the Courtauld? Anyone know? (Some of my favorite paintings are there, so I am sure it’s worth it)

@HomerSlated 14 күн бұрын

OK I'm going just for the cake.

@CyberBeep_kenshi 7 күн бұрын

Reminds menof the doctor who scene.

@jeanlefranc3817 Ай бұрын

Wonderful. I just pray that climate activists are never let loose in such an incredible collection of art.

@user-nc2kz2mn5v 16 күн бұрын

Somerset House is that where they used to house the birth and marriage certificates?

@johnlawrence2757 28 күн бұрын

I’m more a Wallace man myself. They got Rembrandts and Canalettos. An it’s free

@markbriggs5531 19 күн бұрын

Forgive my ignorance but would anyone be kind enough to enlighten me as to the music composer and piece. My dearly departed father used to play this on the record player on a Sunday after a round of golf. It brings back fond memories.

@ballskin 18 күн бұрын

Edvard Grieg - Anitra's Dance

@markbriggs5531 14 күн бұрын

@@ballskinThank you so much for your kind response. I shall enjoy this very much.

@prithvirajbasu4196 10 ай бұрын

This video was made a week after I went there haha 😂

@user-df9vc3jp2b Ай бұрын

You have a top actor like Bill Nighy... why do you then need the music playing? There is this ever-increasing to fill everything on television and video with music, at times drowning out the person speaking. Why do directors never consider how powerful silence can be?

@incognito3620 27 күн бұрын

Hello! This was not a video about Bill Nighy! These paintings were a direct rejection of the classical style. They are rough, sometimes I’ll conceived. Other times applications seemed rough and amateurish. It these artists did not represent the “ ideal”. They were interpreting life as they saw it, not as an academic representation. It was a time of daring exploration. Mr. Nighy alert us to them but never delves into their creations nor their creators. Most of us. Art lovers know about these painters and the works. Sadly this was an advert for the museum. Did he state where the Courtald is. What city?

@jward8868 10 ай бұрын

It’s a great pity about the unnecessary music which detracts from the narrative. Why ?

@susanparsons9365 22 күн бұрын

What is wrong with his hands?

@Demetri450 23 күн бұрын

Islamic metalwork! 😂 Is anything in their musuems specifically British?

@ballskin 18 күн бұрын

Yup, it's just simpletons don't like to pay attention to British history.

@cindyoverall8139 2 ай бұрын

Degas was never an Impressionist. The School of Naturalism were much finer painters. People love the Impressionists because there is no challenge. They were day painters who daubed. Renoir was the worst, as the most insipid of all.