Leonardo DiCaprio sat among the regular folk while attending Robert De Niro’s conversation with artist JR during the Tribeca Festival at Art Basel Miami Beach on Saturday.
DiCaprio, who often opts for VIP treatment, was spotted sitting in the back row of the intimate chat, which was a ticketed event open to the public on a first come, first served basis.
“He was sitting in the audience with everyone else. I think he went largely unnoticed, which is crazy,” a spy tells Page Six exclusively.
We’re also told DiCaprio was “super engaged” throughout the event.
“He sat in the back and listened and chatted with [De Niro and JR] after the conversation,” our eyewitness shares.
The “Wolf of Wall Street” star wore his signature baseball hat, a face mask and a black bomber jacket to stay under the radar.
Leonardo DiCaprio attended Robert De Niro’s discussion at the Tribeca Festival at Art Basel Miami Beach on Saturday. Stephen Lovekin/ShutterstockDiCaprio was seen sitting in the back row of De Niro’s conversation with artist JR. Stephen Lovekin/ShutterstockDe Niro co-founded the Tribeca Festival. Stephen Lovekin
De Niro, 80, and DiCaprio, 49, are close friends and co-star in their new Martin Scorsese-directed film, “Killers of the Flower Moon.” They have also collaborated on several other projects over the years including “This Boy’s Life” and “Marvin’s Room.”
During the event, the “Goodfellas” star chatted with the French street artist about his family’s art legacy and shared a sneak peek of an upcoming documentary film, “The Past Goes Fast.”
De Niro shared that he wants to document family memories like his father’s artwork and diaries for his children and grandchildren.
De Niro chatted with JR about art and family legacy. Stephen Lovekin“[DiCaprio] sat in the back and listened and chatted with [De Niro and JR] after the conversation,” our spy adds. Stephen Lovekin
“Originally, I kept [my father’s] studio exactly the way it was after he passed. … I know he loved me very much. I’m happy he’s here, that his works are here. I want his work to live on,” he said of Robert De Niro Sr., who died at the age of 71 in 1993.
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The event took place at the Miami Beach Botanical Garden across from the convention center where the annual Miami art fair is held.
De Niro and DiCaprio have been close friends for years. Getty ImagesThey have worked on several projects together. Getty Images
Meanwhile, DiCaprio was heavy on the Miami party circuit throughout Art Week. On Wednesday, he attended the Palm Tree Crew x Peggy Gou Art Basel party at new restaurant Casadonna. Alessandra Ambrosio, Ivanka Trump, Jonathan Cheban, Alix Earle and Braxton Berrios were also there.
The next night, DiCaprio hosted an ultra-private fundraiser for his charity, Re:wild, at the Superblue museum, where guests included De Niro, Sean Penn, Tom Brady and Irina Shayk.
DiCaprio and Brady joined forces again Friday night while hitting Wayne and Cynthia Boich’s ridiculously star-studded private mansion party. Other stars in attendance included Dwyane Wade, Venus and Serena Williams, Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber, Corey Gamble, Tyga, Harvey Spevak and Google co-founder Sergey Brin. Snoop Dogg and Lil Wayne performed.
LONDON (AP) — With a few daubs of a paintbrush, the Brontë sisters have got their dots back.
More than eight decades after it was installed, a memorial to the three 19th-century sibling novelists in London’s Westminster Abbey was amended Thursday to restore the diaereses – the two dots over the e in their surname.
The dots — which indicate that the name is pronounced “brontay” rather than “bront” — were omitted when the stone tablet commemorating Charlotte, Emily and Anne was erected in the abbey’s Poets’ Corner in October 1939, just after the outbreak of World War II.
They were restored after Brontë historian Sharon Wright, editor of the Brontë Society Gazette, raised the issue with Dean of Westminster David Hoyle. The abbey asked its stonemason to tap in the dots and its conservator to paint them.
“There’s no paper record for anyone complaining about this or mentioning this, so I just wanted to put it right, really,” Wright said. “These three Yorkshire women deserve their place here, but they also deserve to have their name spelled correctly.”
It’s believed the writers’ Irish father Patrick changed the spelling of his surname from Brunty or Prunty when he went to university in England.
Raised on the wild Yorkshire moors, all three sisters died before they were 40, leaving enduring novels including Charlotte’s “Jane Eyre,” Emily’s “Wuthering Heights” and Anne’s “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.”
Rebecca Yorke, director of the Brontë Society, welcomed the restoration.
“As the Brontës and their work are loved and respected all over the world, it’s entirely appropriate that their name is spelled correctly on their memorial,” she said.
