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A five-year, $220-million expansions has transformed the Frick, without changing anything fundamental to the experience.
The first show presented in the recently restored museum’s new exhibition galleries features three works by the 17th-century ...
The Frick Collection has long been one of New York’s most cherished institutions, and the steady lines since its reopening serve as proof of its lasting relevance in the city’s ever-evolving ...
How much Frick knew of this is unknown. But on May 31, 1889, during a particularly wet spring season, the dam broke, pouring a torrent, which, according to one website, “temporarily equaled that ...
Henry Clay Frick bequest. Michael Bodycomb via the Frick Collection. The Frick is planning a larger gathering of Vermeers for June, but in the meanwhile linger by “Officer and Laughing Girl,” one of ...
The Frick Collection, on East Seventieth Street, is, by so many miles, the finest small city museum—less self-consciously eccentric than London’s Sir John Soane museum, broader in scope and ...
H ENRY CLAY FRICK made a very 19th-century fortune in steel and coal, but his passion lay in other materials: canvas and oil paint. When he was a young man, a bank official visiting him observed ...
She has remained at the Frick for 21 years, moving up the ranks in its curatorial, education and learning departments. The director of learning and visitor experience since 2013, Dunyak Gillen was ...
Frick owned Emma Hart’s image, but he didn’t own her, and that may be what drives all collectors: the illusion that we could have the thing itself, the landscape, the sumptuous clothes of a ...