When the Frick announced in 2019 that it would be closing the mansion for renovation and rebuilding, and moving the collection to the Breuer building on Madison Avenue, many of us groaned. Absurd! The ...
On a recent morning, sketchbooks in hand, we entered the Frick Collection on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Industrialist Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919) left his family home and art collection to the ...
It’s the same. Only better. On April 17, the Frick Collection opens after a multiyear, $330 million renovation and expansion that, among other things, involved temporarily relocating core masterpieces ...
Jean-Antoine Houdon's six-foot-tall sculpture Diana the Huntress (1776–95) spent much of the past five years in a box while construction workers hammered away nearby. One of the many treasures owned ...
All of New York, and the arts community in particular, was agog recently with the re-opening of the Henry Clay Frick Art Museum. After a closure of five years, and at a cost of $220 million, the ...