I love how excited he gets about erstwhile art ...I'm inspired as an artist myself

I fell into Fran Lebowitz's gravitational pull in 1978. I will orbit said gravitational pull until the end of days.

"what could be more new york than that? there's a bus stop in front and inside is this" YESSSSSSSS FRAN! Love you.

Love the Morgan Library. In the late 90s it introduced me to illuminated manuscripts . The craftsmanship was so fucking impressive I went twice.

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It just fits in so wonderfully with the other chalcolithic cultures of that period in Europe and the Mediterranean and the strong position of women in those cultures. Unfortunately we can’t read any of the few texts which have survived till today. One of the best lectures I have ever listened to!

well, I would say that both, Room With A View and Howard's End, delight me still...always recommend them...

The Mass is still said to this day, because the desecration was real. Even if the red spots were caused by a fungi (and there is no scientific proof of that, since the host was burnt), the host itself was sacred, as is every single consecrated host. So even without that miracle, the desecration occurred.

She wrote two books. Whatever.

I think saying "art is useless" is a bit misleading.. creating a mood is quite useful, I'm thinking to help cope with mental health issues for example

Somebody tell Fran that when she's in Buffalo she can page through Mark Train's original manuscript for Huckleberry Finn in his own hand with lots of corrections at the Erie County Library.

Not enough more more more!!👏❤

Excellent summary... A woman of incredible contribution!

A natural treasure. Fran, not the library. Regarding the ability to write finished prose without extensive revision: This can be accomplished only by a handful of the very best authors. Such people can sometimes be recognized by their ability to speak in finished prose. Among them, of course, was Oscar Wilde, one of the greatest raconteurs of the 19th century. In the century that followed, we have New York Times film critic Pauline Kael. I’ve seen her interviewed and she spoke in perfect paragraphs. And then there was Christopher Hitchens. Though I had some issues with his thinking, I was also aware that after a boozy lunch with colleagues, he would return to his office and type out a thousand-word column for the evening edition. His manuscripts were nearly as pure as the driven snow. Who am I to argue with such an intellect? Nobody, that’s who. Oh! And Fran’s pristine commentary is right up there with the best of them!

I am grateful for these custodians of books, art-- but she is not an artist, and has made one big mistake: art is hardly "useless", and meant to create a "mood"; mood is not the aim of art but a quality, art ALWAYS has a real "useful" purpose, just that once that purpose is realized it then becomes "useless" but retains it's beauty. We might admire a photo realist painting, but may not know the purpose was to show what a "photographic" painting really looked like, because at that time the takeover of art by abstract art relied on the belief that realism was nothing more than a photographic copy of the external world, the photo-realists were saying "THIS is what a photographic painting looks like" , Gertrude Stein wrote in a style where dialogue was mostly what the characters were thinking to emphasize knowing the hidden thoughts causing actions--examples are endless. What separates great art from the rest is it surpasses it's aesthetic qualities and creates change distinctly different from the way science and politics creates change.

What is the name of Holy/ divine pig in Medieval lit?

To the ageist haters here. You are decomposing just like everyone else.. I bet your Grandparents hated you. Good thing they had class and wisdom not to put arsenic in the cookies your Grandma baked for you. You are getting old with every ignorant low brow thing you "think." Fran is a Boeing 777 and you are a paper airplane. You will never be anything just because you can fly alittle. 👽

I'd marry Fran if she would take me. ❤

SHIT WORK...THIS AINT GOOD ART.....DARK ART....IF YOU DONT UNDERSTAND.....GOD HELP YOU...THIS IS SHIT

In somali language sare means superior goan means decision.hense sargon. Fage means dig .hence sargon fage means dig burial site to find the tresure of the famouse king.

what is she talking about "wit cannot be the product of effort" as she's looking down on the manuscript of Dorian Grey full of crossed out words and rewritten passages?

insufferable

Holbein's ability to capture the character of his sitters is astounding!

I met Fran this year. She's tiny, practically frail in person yet her presence is gargantuan. There were so many things I wanted to say but I only had about 30 seconds. My contribution to the encounter was so abysmal in relation to my expectations for the moment that it was comical. She was everything all at once. Uncharacteristically polite, on-brand (brazen), endearingly subtle; she sealed the deal with her signature wit. Panicking out of my struggle to resolve the painful (approx. 5 second) silence and fill it with ANYTHING, I said something I would ordinarily cringe at in hindsight. However Fran used my fell-flat-Hail-Mary as a springboard for a quip; an act I consider to be of compassion towards a socially anxious neurotic.

She was absolutely iconic for wishing to share it with the world ❤ May she rest in peace.

I wonder why she says it's unusual Mark Twain being the most popular writer and also a great writer are not lots of best selling authors great that's why they sell so many copies?

I love painting abstract art. I'm forty five years old and I never wanted my paintings to mimic anyone from the past so I really had to stretch my mind to many breaking points to achieve my vision on canvas. I have a few hundred pieces I've painted over the past thirty five plus years and only about a dozen people have seen my paintings. I stayed over a friend's house over the weekend back in 2005 and it was 3am and one of their roommates had a huge round piece of cardboard and I painted a twelve hour painting for her and she was jaw dropped amazed. She ended up selling it to someone that wouldn't stop asking about and she actually asked if I would paint another painting for her LoL. I laughed and told her no I'm afraid not. I ended up finding out the buyer paid over a thousand dollars for my art that was a gift. I've always wanted to show the world my world that I've painted over the years. Everyone's a critic in the art world

Please make another video for late mr and Mrs George Morgan their haunted house still in kalimpong Sikkim india

Thank you for sharing the life of Nora Thompson Dean. ❤

It’s the size of an altoid box. What a stunning piece. It was a perfect size to carry.

Espectacular, gracias

I love Colin Bailey’s presentations. Especially, the drawings.🧑‍🎨♾️✍️

Lecture: Liberty to Imagination: Drawings from the Eveillard Gift 25.6.24. well done.....

misleading title!

Incredible collection. Sorry to have missed the exhibition.

A good friend said about my letters, she could hear my voice in my written words. So nice.

So sad when letters never arrive even when all trouble has been taken to correctly and legibly write the address. 😢

She’s pretty amazing. Like the library she’s sitting in.

Divine. Thank you.

Its sad that this video reached the wrong audience of delusional people trying to negate the materiality of historical FACTS and of race being a social construct, or worse, it reached the targeted audience but not in a way they could understand

“Art is useless.” It’s also one of the few things we seek to preserve. Or destroy. This feels like a statement a writer might tell themself to get out of their own head. Patently nonsense, though. Art is literally the only reason we know most historical events and cultures, their values, their norms, their commonalities and foibles, their in groups and out groups, their gods and their devils, why they went to war or chose to die. It’s everything we’ve ever worked to make. That’s like saying life is useless. To its own end, yes. It’s made use OF, though, categorically. Perhaps that frightens some who spend their life in service of it. Seems like cowardice to me. Art will be made use of regardless of what you sought to create it for, even if you thought it was for nothing. If it gets banned, that tells you everything. You don’t ban a thing for being idle.

Why no white gloves?

I eat up whatever this woman says

Fran Lebowitz is just another know-it-all boomer

Fran Lebowitz wrote some stuff early in her career but I think in the last 40 or 50 years she has just given talks. Does she talk from an outline or just improvise?

Anything with Fran is moist! Love her

The wild man with a stick is where we get the "F word" from. It's a german word in origin meaning; to hit a woman over the head with a stick and sleep with her. Also, white women have the thickest skulls of any group, only the strong survive as they say.

Mark Twain of course took the "voice" of "Huck Finn" from his shoe-shine moments talking with a young Black man who regaled him with stories and frank rapport. "If I'd a-knowed what a trouble it was to make a book, I warn't never a-tackled it, and I ain't a-goin' to no more."

"There are two kinds of people in New York: the kind of people who have room for books and the kind of people who have books - and they are never the same people." -Fran Lebowitz

Will go, Fran!