Frick Collection
The New York City landmark museum reopens in April 2025 following a five-year programme to enlarge and remodel its historic Fifth Avenue home, overseen by the architect Annabelle Selldorf
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Renewed Frick Collection balances tradition and transformation
The 90-year-old Manhattan institution—historic home of the industrialist Henry Clay Frick—opens a new chapter, expanding gallery space and inviting the public into the Frick family’s former living quarters for the first time
The Frick Collection opens its first-ever education centre
The Ian Wardropper Education Room, named after the museum’s outgoing director, welcomes everyone in the community
The Frick: Annabelle Selldorf interview and our review, plus a Taiso Yoshitoshi woodblock print—podcast
A chat with the architect behind the New York institution’s transformation and an art historian’s view on it, plus a discussion about a sea-themed work by the last great ukiyo-e master
Inside New York's museum-building boom
A wave of construction projects is updating and expanding the city’s art and cultural institutions, indicating a trend toward modernisation and growth
Axel Rüger leaves London’s Royal Academy for New York's Frick Collection
The RA chief, who saw the institution through the Covid-19 pandemic, will replace Ian Wardropper next spring
The renovation of the Frick Collection: 2020-25
The $240m renovation of the collection's Golden Age home on Fifth Avenue includes the remodelling of the entrance hall, the creation of a special exhibitions gallery, a café and an auditorium, modernising the conservation studios, physically uniting the research library to the museum building and providing designated space for education, research, and public programmes
Frick Collection's fundraising for renovation and capital campaign reaches $242m
With 83% of its renovation fund raised, the museum is on target to reopen in its historic home in late 2024
Fourth time's a charm: Frick Collection announces new renovation and expansion plans
The Selldorf Architects-designed project spares the institution’s much loved 70th Street garden and opens up the building’s second storey
New perspectives: Annabelle Selldorf brings a fresh angle to the National Gallery’s Sainsbury Wing
A tour of the remodelled building, five months before its reopening, shows the New York architect has created a spectacular main entrance closely integrated with the rest of the London institution and with the public space of Trafalgar Square
Inside New York's museum-building boom
A wave of construction projects is updating and expanding the city’s art and cultural institutions, indicating a trend toward modernisation and growth
Frick Madison 2021-24
From March 2021 to March 2024, during renovation work on the Frick Collection's Fifth Avenue museum, a large part of the collection was put on show at the Marcel Breuer-designed former home of the Whitney Museum of American Art. Annabelle Selldorf, architect of the Frick's renovation, also remodelled the Brutalist masterpiece on Madison Avenue as a temporary home for the historic collection of Henry Clay Frick.
Beauty in the Brutalist beast: a critic's view of the Frick Madison
While the stark presentation of the masterworks creates a revelatory clarity, the exhibition also has a domesticating effect on the Modernist architecture
Old Masters meet Brutalism: inside Frick Madison in New York
Plus, the story of a notorious forger and artist Collier Schorr on August Sander
In Pictures: an early look inside the Frick Madison
Before the public opening on 18 March, see the startling installation of the museum's Old Masters collection in the Brutalist Breuer building
Contemporary paintings will hang with the Frick’s Old Masters in new art series
Doron Langberg will pair off with Hans Holbein, and Salman Toor will join Vermeer in the Breuer building this week
Frick Collection will vacate Brutalist Madison Avenue building in early 2024
The institution will reopen in its historic mansion, which is undergoing a $160m renovation, by the end of 2024
Exhibitions
As part of the renovation of its Fifth Avenue home, the Frick Collection will have a new three-room space for temporary exhibitions from April 2025. The first show, of the work of Johannes Vermeer, features a loan from the Rijksmuseum, one that acknowledges the Frick sending three paintings to the historic 2023 exhibition of the Dutch master's work in Amsterdam
Frick Collection to reopen in April with Vermeer exhibition in the works
Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum is returning the favour and lending one of its works after showing the Frick’s Vermeers in its blockbuster exhibition last year
Frick collection invites contemporary artist into its permanent galleries for the first time
Edmund de Waal's porcelain creations will open a dialogue with the historic art and furnishings and 'will not shock', curator says
A major minor master: Jonathan Brown on Anthony van Dyck at the Frick Collection
The artist had his triumphs, but he never fulfilled his greatest ambitions
The Big Review: Vermeer at the Rijksmuseum ★★★★★
A less-is-more approach to the biggest ever exhibition of the Dutch Old Master’s paintings makes this blockbuster a triumph
Catalogue captures re-creation of the destroyed Tiepolo ceiling frescoes in Milan
Historic photographs and contemporary papers have been used in new book to re-imagine the cycle
Institutional loans
The Frick Collection makes national and international loans from its holdings. In 2023, during the renovation of its historic New York home, the collection lent its three Vermeer canvases for the first time—to the Rijksmuseum's historic survey of the Dutch master's work. In 2024-25 the collection lent one of Duccio's Maestà panels to Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350 at the Metropolitan Museum, New York, and the National Gallery, London
The Big Review | 14th-century Siena is magnificent at the Met ★★★★★
Reuniting the surviving sections of the city’s altarpiece marvel is just the start of this important, beautifully staged show at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Big Review: Vermeer at the Rijksmuseum ★★★★★
A less-is-more approach to the biggest ever exhibition of the Dutch Old Master’s paintings makes this blockbuster a triumph
Vermeer special: the man, the show and an attribution debate
As the "unmissable" show opens at the Rijksmuseum we talk to the curators, the museum's director and artist Alvaro Barrington
Vermeer roll call: final loans for Rijksmuseum blockbuster include masterworks from the Louvre and Met
The full list of paintings to be shown in the ambitious retrospective next year was announced at a press briefing in New York
Acquisitions
The Frick Collection makes periodic acquisitions—either through bequests of art or of money to acquire new works—to add to the core collection left by Henry Clay Frick and his family
New York's Frick Collection acquires its first-ever Renaissance portrait of a woman
According to the museum, the portrait by Giovanni Battista Moroni is “the most significant Italian Renaissance painting” it has acquired in more than half a century
Sargent, Goya, Degas: Frick Collection welcomes its most significant gift to date of works on paper
The 26 works, promised by a New York collecting couple, enhance the museum’s current holdings and add new artists to its collection
Celebrating a generous donation to the Frick, this booklet pays tribute to the donor and his gift
The Arnhold family began collecting Meissen porcelain in the 1920s and the heir has given more than 100 examples to the New York museum
Acquisitions round-up: two London museums jointly purchase a masterpiece of the Aesthetic movement
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide
Top five acquisitions in June
Our pick of the most significant new gifts and purchases to enter museum collections worldwide, from Damien Hirst's placemat portraits to Nari Ward's recycled shoelace installation
Research and conservation
The Frick Collection contains a conservation studio and research library, both of which have been modernised and more closely integrated with the museum in the 2025 renovation of the collection's New York home
The master's hand: a treasured Vermeer gives up its secrets
Extensive scientific testing of the Frick’s Mistress and Maid proves that it was not finished by someone else
Frick shows that collecting is a scholarly subject
Center for the History of Collecting marks its first decade with book release and reveals ambitions to do more work with living collectors
Culture Pass brings library patrons to New York museums—and now, museums to libraries
Branches across the boroughs are now hosting museums' educational programmes
Very much an acquired taste: how did so many Italian baroque paintings end up in US museums?
Book provides a sampling of personalities, acquisition strategies and collections that many Europeans may not know
Can AI shed new light on how much of The Polish Rider was painted by Rembrandt?
One of the jewels of the Frick Collection in New York has been analysed using Art Recognition’s Artificial Intelligence model
The collection
Alex Rüger, the Frick's director, and some 35 senior staff oversee the museum's permanent collection of more than 1,800 works of art housed in the former residence of the industrialist Henry Clay Frick.
Axel Rüger leaves London’s Royal Academy for New York's Frick Collection
The RA chief, who saw the institution through the Covid-19 pandemic, will replace Ian Wardropper next spring
Frick Collection director to retire after $195m renovation
Ian Wardropper has been leading the museum since 2011, guiding it through its renovation and temporary relocation to the former Whitney Museum building
Frick Collection honoured for employing people with disabilities
The institution is the first New York museum to be honoured by the city’s mayor for its employment efforts
Read what Jenny Saville, George Condo and Victoria Beckham have to say about their favourite Old Master paintings
Exclusive extracts from a new book bringing together texts by 62 cultural figures describing their preferred works in the Frick Collection
How to see every painting by Johannes Vermeer
Missed the blockbuster show at the Rijksmuseum? Fear not, we present an insider’s guide to seeing all his 36 paintings across the globe, from London and New York, to Braunschweig and Tokyo
Podcasts
The Frick: Annabelle Selldorf interview and our review, plus a Taiso Yoshitoshi woodblock print—podcast
A chat with the architect behind the New York institution’s transformation and an art historian’s view on it, plus a discussion about a sea-themed work by the last great ukiyo-e master
The Year Ahead 2025: market predictions, the big shows and openings—podcast
From the reimagined Frick Collection to Emily Kam Kngwarray at Tate Modern
The Wallace Collection appoints Selldorf Architects to lead masterplan to transform its historic London home
The New York firm led by Annabelle Selldorf will collaborate with the UK practices Purcell and Lawson Ward Studio to improve access, sustainability and visitor experience at Hertford House
Comment | Muted grey, bloody red, or dark blue—here’s why the colour of museum walls matters more than you might think
As London’s National Gallery launches its “once-in-a-lifetime” rehang, Ben Luke asks: what is the right shade behind the art?
The Frick: Annabelle Selldorf interview and our review, plus a Taiso Yoshitoshi woodblock print—podcast
A chat with the architect behind the New York institution’s transformation and an art historian’s view on it, plus a discussion about a sea-themed work by the last great ukiyo-e master
The Frick Collection opens its first-ever education centre
The Ian Wardropper Education Room, named after the museum’s outgoing director, welcomes everyone in the community
Renewed Frick Collection balances tradition and transformation
The 90-year-old Manhattan institution—historic home of the industrialist Henry Clay Frick—opens a new chapter, expanding gallery space and inviting the public into the Frick family’s former living quarters for the first time
Can AI shed new light on how much of The Polish Rider was painted by Rembrandt?
One of the jewels of the Frick Collection in New York has been analysed using Art Recognition’s Artificial Intelligence model
Frick Collection to reopen in April with Vermeer exhibition in the works
Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum is returning the favour and lending one of its works after showing the Frick’s Vermeers in its blockbuster exhibition last year
Axel Rüger leaves London’s Royal Academy for New York's Frick Collection
The RA chief, who saw the institution through the Covid-19 pandemic, will replace Ian Wardropper next spring
Inside New York's museum-building boom
A wave of construction projects is updating and expanding the city’s art and cultural institutions, indicating a trend toward modernisation and growth
Frick Collection director to retire after $195m renovation
Ian Wardropper has been leading the museum since 2011, guiding it through its renovation and temporary relocation to the former Whitney Museum building
The big museum openings and expansions of 2024
The Grand Egyptian Museum should open at last, while Masp in São Paulo gets a tower-block extension
Frick Collection's fundraising for renovation and capital campaign reaches $242m
With 83% of its renovation fund raised, the museum is on target to reopen in its historic home in late 2024
Ten exhibitions to see in New York City this autumn
From large-scale surveys of Judy Chicago and Ed Ruscha, to showcases of Barkley L. Hendricks’s portraits, Ruth Asawa’s works on paper, Shary Boyle’s surreal ceramics, Korean experimental art and more
Frick Collection will vacate Brutalist Madison Avenue building in early 2024
The institution will reopen in its historic mansion, which is undergoing a $160m renovation, by the end of 2024
Acquisitions round up: Art Institute of Chicago acquires Magdalena Abakanowicz's horsehair wall hangings
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide
New York's Frick Collection acquires its first-ever Renaissance portrait of a woman
According to the museum, the portrait by Giovanni Battista Moroni is “the most significant Italian Renaissance painting” it has acquired in more than half a century
Acquisitions round-up: two London museums jointly purchase a masterpiece of the Aesthetic movement
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide
Frick Collection honoured for employing people with disabilities
The institution is the first New York museum to be honoured by the city’s mayor for its employment efforts
New York is rich in Arte Povera, from Pier Paolo Calzolari’s pandemic-era works to Piero Gilardi’s nature-inspired carpets
Two years after the death of art critic Germano Celant, who first coined the movement’s name, Arte Povera is making splashes in the city and beyond
Contemporary paintings will hang with the Frick’s Old Masters in new art series
Doron Langberg will pair off with Hans Holbein, and Salman Toor will join Vermeer in the Breuer building this week
Sargent, Goya, Degas: Frick Collection welcomes its most significant gift to date of works on paper
The 26 works, promised by a New York collecting couple, enhance the museum’s current holdings and add new artists to its collection
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Julie Mehretu’s mid-career survey at the Whitney to the Frick Collection’s temporary encampment in the Breuer building
Beauty in the Brutalist beast: a critic's view of the Frick Madison
While the stark presentation of the masterworks creates a revelatory clarity, the exhibition also has a domesticating effect on the Modernist architecture
Old Masters meet Brutalism: inside Frick Madison in New York
Plus, the story of a notorious forger and artist Collier Schorr on August Sander
In Pictures: an early look inside the Frick Madison
Before the public opening on 18 March, see the startling installation of the museum's Old Masters collection in the Brutalist Breuer building
Frick Collection takes its jewels on a Brutalist sojourn
Evocative surprises await: while its Gilded Age home is closed for renovation and expansion, the Frick displays its masterworks in austere Modernist surroundings on Madison Avenue
Read what Jenny Saville, George Condo and Victoria Beckham have to say about their favourite Old Master paintings
Exclusive extracts from a new book bringing together texts by 62 cultural figures describing their preferred works in the Frick Collection
New York's Frick Collection will open at Madison Avenue location in early 2021
After the Met vacates the Breuer building, the Frick will take over with a chronological presentation of masterworks
The master's hand: a treasured Vermeer gives up its secrets
Extensive scientific testing of the Frick’s Mistress and Maid proves that it was not finished by someone else
Celebrating a generous donation to the Frick, this booklet pays tribute to the donor and his gift
The Arnhold family began collecting Meissen porcelain in the 1920s and the heir has given more than 100 examples to the New York museum