Travels with a Curator: Pittsburgh

[@carolm5533]

What a wonderful final episode of Travels With a Curator! Thank you, Xavier and Aimee, for bringing so much joy to all of us who have followed the series and for teaching us such an immense amount. We've gained insights into so many artists and artworks as well as to the places we've visited with you. This project of yours has been a truly unforgettable experience, appreciated more than words can convey.

[@carolabruzzo4935]

A tremendous thank you Xavier for offering this exemplary opportunity to enjoy art, cities and enrich our minds with all of it while restrained in our homes and neighborhoods. You have outperformed your peers with an amazing series. Frick is very very fortunate to have you highlight its masterpieces. Cocktails and Travel with a Frick Curator will be embedded in my Covid memory. Thank you for giving us so much pleasure during this time. Sincerely.

[@kurtk6592]

You have my most sincere gratitude for all you have done in creating hope and joy over the past five months.

[@erikdreyer1863]

Thank you Xavier and Anne for this magnificent program, so sad the end of the series

[@lauranceguido1009]

Such an enormous sadness has come over me at the end of our travels together! You have been a beacon of LIGHT for those of us, I am an art historian also, who are held Hostage in America to the Corona Virus. PLEASE do at least keep Cocktails with the Curator! So pleased to have made your acquaintance, as the FRICK museum is my favorite museum in the world! Mille Grazie, Judith Kaplan

[@jayceonxander3413]

I guess im asking the wrong place but does someone know of a way to log back into an instagram account..? I stupidly forgot the password. I love any tips you can offer me

[@johnforgach1]

Thank you. I’m from Pittsburgh, and this “Travels” episode made me smile and cry. The Clayton complex today is a wonderful way to spend a day; in a sense, it’s a step into the early American “Guided Age”. When I visit Clayton, I also think of the younger, art collector friend of Mr. Frick, Andrew Mellon, also from Pittsburgh, who also makes us “Pittsburghers” proud because Mr. Mellon founded The National Gallery of Art of the United States. I love our Frick in NYC, and the NGA in Washington, and also Clayton in my home-town, Pittsburgh. Each one is a treasure of art, architecture and ... history. Thanks.

[@debcap65]

Such a fantastic program. A great help during these trying times. I hope you’ll consider continuing as there are so many of us who miss our great solace of viewing and studying art, and especially attending the Frick collection. Thank you for helping to expand our minds, our knowledge, provide us with a wonderful escape each week, and help us feel connected to the Frick as we navigate our new, socially distant, virtual world.

[@yaelkamah9785]

Thank you for this wonderful series. You are a great storyteller. Please keep the cocktail show on as it is pure joy to watch.

[@MShamiri]

It has been a great time travelling and having cocktails with both of you. I'll miss you and your fabulous lectures! Hi from Tel Aviv

[@lucanardecchia2859]

Thank you Xavier. While we miss travels so much, we have had the opportunity of travelling with your wonderful program! Hope to see you in Italy as soon as possible!!

[@davidclare4983]

What a great series - both the Travels and the Cocktails. Helped keep me sane through these strange times! Keep well, all of you at the Frick.

[@esperanzabotello1640]

What a great way to end this series!!!! Thank you, it has been a pleasure traveling and having cocktails with you. You made it very clear, that connection between people in different times and places, is one of our greatest treasures. Greetings from Mexico and we hope to see you at the Frick soon!!!!

[@Leebearify]

I cannot even begin to tell you how much I am going to miss you and Aimee each week. I have learned so much and purchased different books that have been recommended by both of you. I am in the middle of Memoirs of Hadrian by Yourcenar and the wonderful one about the history of porcelain. I do hope that you can be funded to continue this series, there is so much to know and see and following in your footsteps is an honor. Thank you again to both of you for sharing your great love of the arts you have definitely inspired me !! I do hope to meet you one day at the Frick or out traveling !!

[@dawnjackson1802]

Thank you so much for a wonderfully educational experience. Unparalleled! Will miss the comments of other viewers, a warm human connection in an isolated and sometimes violent time. You have given us hope for the future travel to New York and Pittsburg. 🇨🇦

[@adagietto2523]

Wonderful series, thank you from the Welsh Marches, enjoyable and very informative.

[@sherrylhenning5630]

I've really enjoyed this series and am sorry to see it end! Thank you for taking me all over the world chasing the stories of the pieces. Its been a fabulous journey!

[@gray6359]

A fantastic voyage indeed! Thank you Frick Collection for this very special programming during this difficult time. Science will hopefully save us, but ART will save our souls!

[@gustavderkits8433]

Thank very much! This series is, in its own genre, a work of art.

[@valeriemulholland4282]

Echoing the sentiments already expressed by grateful viewers, thank you for providing such stimulating, splendid talks throughout the pandemic. When we are able to travel again to New York, The Frick will be our first stop. Gratitude from Canada.

[@toffthe]

I have loved this series. I feel like I'm having a look around with a very knowledgeable old friend . A delicious pleasure.

[@markroark6425]

Xavier, thank you so much for all of your fascinating videos on the amazingly diverse Frick collections in both NYC and Pittsburgh. Your well researched stories, not to mention your beautiful elocution, and mellifluous voice only add to the deep enjoyment of these lovely videos. This human connection has given many people great pleasure when they cannot travel, and a great cultural diversion in a very strange and difficult time. I cannot express how much I will miss these. Mark Roark, Seattle and Pittsburgh

[@melvillehayes6305]

This series has been an exceptioanal course in art conneseurship which I really appreciate !

[@marjoriecohen9998]

Thank you for this magnificent program. I look forward to seeing many of the Frick’s works of art that have been so beautifully presented in the two Curators’ series in the Frick Madison and ultimately back at the newly renovated Frick Collection.

[@billsmith3946]

I think the consensus will agree you and Aimee should continue a presence online. At least consider it a charitable contribution to us peasants who can’t visit world class museums on a regular basis. Thank you so much!

[@mbfrezon]

Thank you all so much for this wonder opportunity and education over the past few months. I hope other institutions will use your fine example of public outreach and service to the greater community and I thank you for your wonderful gift.

[@CloudLichen]

Any chance you can continue this, please? This is an absolutely wonderful series, I've enjoyed and appreciated it so much. Thank you immensely. I yelled "NO!" out loud when you said it was the lats episode. These videos, along with Cocktails With a Curator, have seriously brought me major happiness over the last few months. I will miss them a great deal. Thanks for your work.

[@marianpallazola6632]

I’m so sad this series is ending. Xavier and Amy you have brightened my life during these unprecedented times. I can’t wait till we can visit the Frick Collection again in person and I hope to meet you when that happens. Au Revoir from Boston! Marian

[@corinnetroiano56]

it's been a joy! Thank you! Thank you!

[@SixMinuteScholar]

Your Travels have been one of the great joys of these recent months. I visited The Frick once, and now I will certainly return -- many times, I hope! Many thanks! (from Texas)

[@chriscaughey1103]

Since I am confined at home, I will truly miss Travels with the Curator. I loved watching and learning so much! Thank you for having it do during this pandemic.

[@tamaragerasimova2405]

I am originally from Russia, have been living in German for a long time.Notwithstanding a great art lover, never have heard of this splendid collection bevore.Thanks for your introduction it to us.

[@thegardengazer]

Dear Xavier and Anne, Thank you for creating this splendid program. I have not missed traveling because you both have taken me to places and museums that I wished to visit them someday. Soon, I hope I will be at the Frick museum in New York, Clayton and museum in Pittsburg.

[@joycevisceglia6404]

My sincere thanks for offering these enlightened talks during these dark times. You took us to so many beautiful places and expanded our understanding of many beautiful works of art .Xavier and Aimee you are both treasures to the art world. Stay well, Joyce Visceglia

[@pchabanowich]

It seems I am one of a huge number of people who feel a loss already as you take your leave. You’ve become an integral part of my weeks when you so skillfully and generously imparted huge swaths of knowledge I would not have otherwise encountered in a style which warmed my heart. Sad to see you go, I wish you great blessings throughout your already marvellous life.

[@mercelloveras7453]

Thank you very much Xavier and Aimee for sharing with the public all your travel experiences and all your knowledge about art. Has been a great pleasure and it is very sad that those small lectures come to end. Obviously, as soo as the normality on flights return I'm anxious to visits again the Frick and the Pittsburgh Frick which you have introduce to me. Thanks again for help me to love more the Art. And I'm looking forward to your Travels and art lectures in a near future.

[@trulytart3534]

The Clayton house is my favorite historic home to tour in Pittsburgh. These photos really don't do it justice. Thank you for all of the lovely tours!

[@alexabbottboyd915]

Thank you so much for making the wonderful series. My wife and I have loved tuning in each week and we cannot wait to visit the Frick again soon. We really hope you make more of these and also of Cocktails With A Curator. We will never be able to look at the collection the same way!

[@Diana-yj2ko]

Forever grateful, Mr Salomon. Simply the best. Many thanks.

[@davidcole9309]

We have so enjoyed this series - absolutely magnificent. You’ve opened our eyes to so many different aspects of art. I have worked at the National Gallery in London for some 25 years - now retired - yet I have learnt so much from your talks. Thank you. This pandemic has had some advantages and this is one of them!

[@conniemiller4352]

Thank you so much for this splendid series at a time when we consummate travelers have been grounded. You both took me places that, while they were not on my itinerary, enriched my life.

[@deeseiffer]

Thank you for both series. I live just in the other side of the cemetery from The Frick Pittsburgh. Thank you for showcasing Clayton. Frick also gave acres of land adjacent to his property that the city expanded to 644 acres - Frick Park. Mac Miller fans - Blue Slide Park is in Frick Park.

[@lauranceguido1009]

OUTSTANDING. GREAT LABOR OF LOVE. AUGURI E GRAZIE. DR. LAUR ANCE GUIDO

[@meggallucci5300]

A great way to end this wonderful series. My family is from western PA, and I have been to Clayton. It was wonderful, of course.

[@dorothywoods7446]

More please. These talks are riveting and I really hope that you will be back with more wonderful items. Thank you for your efforts over the last few months.

[@lombranar]

Coming from a small town in West Texas I can't tell you how much I appreciate culture and history you have provided. If by chance you are single meow!

[@lombranar]

Good afternoon

[@MarkusSiebler]

I'd like to add my thanks for this wonderful program. It was really great to get the additional insight into the items in the Frick collection and also virtually see the world.

[@sandraeugeni7606]

It’s so sad to come to the end of this series. Thanks so much for the wonderful job you have done!

[@patricialewinska1351]

Thank you so much for this fabulous series. Living in the UK I have not had the pleasure of visiting the Frick....so far... but will most definitely in the future. As others have said, these talks have been a beacon of light in this grey world and I thank you and everyone involved in making these. Wishing you all at the Frick the very best for the future.

[@joanwalters4741]

This has been a splendid experience for all of us. Thank you for taking us to the most exciting places to fill our hearts, souls and imaginations. Thank you for Beautiful Dreams. Be Blessed and filled with Amazing Grace.

[@marilulasagna1846]

Ultimo di tanti viaggi virtuali ma sempre viaggi, viaggi con la fantasia in posti magnifici che hanno reso piu sopportabile l'isolamento di questi mesi Complimenti per le scelte mai scontate, per la passione, la chiarezza e l'eleganza delle descrizioni Non mi resta che aspettare di poter tornare alla nostra ancora piu amata Frick! Certo che potevi farci scoprire anche la bowling alley!!!

[@pamheid2913]

Thank you so much for both of your series. I have so enjoyed them! I'm so sad to hear you say this is the last one. Seriously your programs are one of the things getting me through this isolation. I have share them with all of my art loving friends. Again, thank you!

[@rosemarycaruso9071]

Thank you so very much for all these wonderful talks. I just can’t emphasize how important that have been to me over the last few months. You have expanded my art world in so many different and exciting ways. I feel very sad that it is all coming to an end. Thank you Xavier and Aimee.

[@lynnblack6493]

Really I will miss my travels and cocktails. The end must mean Amy's and your lives and work are getting back to a bit of normal. Thank you again, and the very best!

[@donaldmangel4732]

Xavier and Aimee, Thank you for this wonderful series that brought us so much pleasure in learning more about The Frick! It was so fitting to end with the Pittsburgh Frick to bring this story full circle and show the continued connection between both institutions. Thanks again!

[@LindaLinda80Linda]

I think you have made us all friends through your lectures. Thank you.

[@margaretkaczorowski2211]

Thank you Xavier and Amy! What a wonderful way to end this delightful series. I look forward to visiting the Frick Collection at the new temp location at some point in the winter time. Best wishes, Margaret

[@pattersondsmccd]

Wonderful! Thank you very much! I think I saw about 80% of your 20 sessions and I enjoyed each one. I didn't know about many of these places you and Amy have taken us to: so much to see when this pandemic is over.

[@Missymate]

It has been an absolute delight to join you both over the past months and thank you both for sharing with us, I’ve learnt so much and it’s been something lovely to look forward to at this strange time I hope one day in the future to travel across the pond to New York and visit the Frick. 😊

[@xinawalsh4294]

Sorry to see these delightful videos end. We enjoyed them very much - wonderful insights and history.

[@susprime7018]

"Say it ain't so Joe." The last episode, glad things are returning to a more normal for you. I do not anticipate a more normal here, I have appreciated the vicarious travel. thank you, "happy trails."

[@reneemcart3572]

I have truly enjoyed every episode of this series! I will miss traveling each week to a new and wonderful place that I will otherwise probably never get to see but have always dreaming of visiting. I will miss this experience greatly! I hope you will continue cocktails with the curator as it has been very helpful to me as I delve into my long delayed passion to learn about art history.

[@lindaanne4762]

Thank you I am in lockdown in Melbourne Australia and you transport me to another world with your erudite presentation.

[@jonandrews3528]

A excellent series. Please find a way to continue it.

[@rozbarber9030]

Excellent series! Xavier Salomon is the top of the top!Thank you. Very much enjoyed Amy too

[@annel736]

Thank you so very much for Travels and Cocktails with a Curator. What a

[@annel736]

Wonderful 20 weeks. and sharing your amazing expertise. Hopefully we'll all be able to visit you in person soon. However, these virtual voyages have been most memorable. 🎶💜🎵

[@martin812ful]

Thankyou so much from London. We have really enjoyed your (and Aimee's) travels and cocktails. A great advert for the Frick Collection and the art history profession, and an oasis of humanity in a scary world. Looking forward to the book!?

[@joanrderosa]

Thank you Xavier. It’s been a delightful journey.

[@johnkiniry7244]

Thank you! Please keep making such as these!

[@patriciawinks6182]

A consolation for my inability to travel during the pandemic has been weekly virtual travel with Xavier and Aimee. I don’t want to say goodbye! Au revoir , perhaps? Thank you for the great pleasure you have given us.

[@marcust4238]

Your vlogs have been a much treasured gift...thank you

[@margaretspain2127]

Enjoyed the armchair traveling so very much! Many thanks and can’t wait to visit when all this is over.

[@tatyanachristensen3154]

Thank you! It is very interesting!

[@horaciomillan4181]

What a wonderful experiwnce has been following both of you. I just now discovered this was a series meant to finish, and I'm very sorry for that, I will miss you so much. I visited the FC in NYC some years ago (I'm from Argentina) and it is one of my favorite places there, because of the intimate relation you can develop with the works. Now I'm sure I will come back next time in the city, because visiting the Collection is reason enough to go to New York.

[@Amc933]

Thanks for all of these wonderful videos.

[@jyotsnakorgaonkar9621]

Thank you very much for this fabulous journey . I enjoyed your both series, very meticulously prepared. I wish you could have continued. Thanks once again. I am from India

[@francinegodhelp-hazeveld2159]

Thank you for the lovely series of travels.

[@miketracy7578]

You briefly mention the Homestead Strike and the "treatment of workers". I think it would be a good perspective for the listeners to know that Frick's wealth was gained from the low, low wages he paid to factory workers. Homestead Strike was a reaction to Frick lowering the wages on workers, even though their output (steel) was increasing. The strike was broken by private militia The Pinkerton Men, striking workers' families thrown out of their homes. The strike was broken and set back unionization for decades. Don't get me wrong. I love your series, I love the Frick Museum, its collection, etc. However, we should recognize the lives of industrial steel workers and coal miners that were lost to create the wealth that bought these great works of art.

[@marcelaagostino8449]

nice travel to Pittsburgh....thank you

[@beverlyfletcher4458]

Even more treasures! Thank you.

[@castadivanorma8478]

I will miss you immensely, sir....

[@roniquebreauxjordan1302]

Thank you Dr. Solomon!

[@walterparsons6999]

These travels were wonderful. Thank you.

[@kristinfleming1856]

thank you!

[@elinordrake7129]

Thank you, I quite enjoyed this one!

[@egriffinj]

Talk about 'bittersweet'! I have loved every episode of this, but I'm so very sorry to hear this is the end. Won't you please consider continuing, even if every other week or monthly? If this isn't even possible, thank you for some of my most rewarding online moments. This is a great choice as a last episode, if that must be so.

[@Booka60]

A rare pleasure, in these difficult times.

[@SexyBakanishi]

I hope you won’t end cocktails with a curator even if the pandemic eases up... I live in a small city without much art and I’m thoroughly enjoying these in depth tours of artwork I may never get to see. I’ll miss this series too... I hope you’ll consider a season 2. I don’t know of any other museums doing such open and friendly introductions to art online

[@tompommerel2136]

Wonderful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@edwardjasiewicz5893]

There is no mention of the second, earlier Frick Museum in Pittsburgh, which is now referred to as the Frick Fine Arts Library on the University of Pittsburgh campus. The Point Breeze Frick Museum was created in response to an ugly conflict between the family and the builders, I believe.

[@vivianbarnett6944]

Any chance of bringing together works from Pittsburgh and New York? What about a small Millet exhibit?

[@lauranceguido1009]

The last comment was written by Judith Kaplan, my partner, who also lives in Paris.

[@amesavis]

he is quite good this fellow

[@ohmyblindman]

So nobody is going to call out the monstrous carbuncle that is shown at 24:40? Talk about not fitting in to the surroundings. Forgive me internet, I'm just so bummed that I can't get these inspirational lectures from the comfort of my couch, and for the foreseeable future will require a mask, woe is us.

[@emilywong4601]

Sorry that this is the last day.

[@fritzmasten7675]

No! More!!!

[@carolineworsley2865]

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[@johnreynolds5407]

Tragic to see the Frick veer off into politics and "social justice" issues as it did this year.

[@patrickfitzgerald2861]

2,209 people died in the Johnstown Flood, due to the negligence of Frick and his rich pals in the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club. This, along with his violent union busting efforts, makes it regretful that the assassination attempt by Alexander Berkman failed. Frankly the museums and home are actually monuments to evil.

[@tahiragibson6407]

Patrick Fitzgerald - thank you, Bernie Sanders junior!

[@patrickfitzgerald2861]

@@tahiragibson6407 You're welcome fascist low-life.