Renovation and Reopening | Fall 2024
Building Project
The museum and library are slated to reopen to the public in April 2025.
“Renovated Frick to Reopen in April 2025” —The New York Times
“The Frick Collection Is Reopening in 2025”—Time Out
“The Frick Collection to Reopen in April 2025 With All Its Gilded Age Splendor” —Observer
“Frick Collection to Reopen in April With Vermeer Exhibition in the Works”—The Art Newspaper
“New York’s Frick Collection Will Reopen in Spring”—Hyperallergic
“The Frick Collection Will Reopen in April 2025”—The Architect's Newspaper
“Frick Reopening Date Announced”—Patch
“When the Frick Reopens, This Rare Masterpiece Will Welcome the Collection Home”—Artnet
Renovation and Enhancement Project Highlighted in Fall Architecture Preview—The New York Times
Axel Rüger Appointed as Next Director | Fall 2024
Leadership
“The Frick Collection Looks to London For Next Leader”—The New York Times
“Frick Collection Names Axel Rüger Its New Director”—Artnet
“Frick Collection Hires Axel Rüger as New Director”—ARTnews
“Frick Appoints Axel Rüger Its Next Director”—Artforum
Renovation Partner Profiles | Summer 2024
Building Project
“How Annabelle Selldorf Became the Architect of Our Moment”—Vogue
“Star Architect Annabelle Selldorf on Her Vital Mission”—Artnet
“Visionary Women Shaping the Art World: Annabelle Selldorf”—Galerie
Renovation Stories, Online Programs & Loans | Spring/Summer 2024
Programs
“Frick Collection’s New Digital Programs Precede Reopening”—Forbes
“Here’s Everything Going on at the Frick Until It Reopens Later This Year”—Observer
Vermeer, Monet, Rembrandt at The Frick Pittsburgh | Spring/Summer 2024
Exhibition
Works from the Frick’s permanent collection were on view at The Frick Pittsburgh for a joint exhibition.
“Pittsburgh Museum Displaying Masterpieces From Henry Clay Frick’s Collection”—CBS Pittsburgh
“Frick Museums Partner On Blockbuster Vermeer, Monet and Rembrandt Exhibition”—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
“The Frick Brings ‘Once in a Lifetime’ Exhibition to Pittsburgh”—Pittsburgh Quarterly
“Rembrandt, Vermeer Works Highlight New Exhibit at The Frick Pittsburgh”—WESA
“See Which New Famous Artists Are Currently in Town at The Frick”—Pittsburgh Magazine
“Vermeer, Monet, and Rembrandt Works Come to The Frick Pittsburgh”—Table
“Art From the Frick in NYC Is Coming to Pittsburgh”—NEXT Pittsburgh
Piero della Francesca: The Augustinian Polyptych Reunited | Spring/Summer 2024
Exhibition
Works from the Frick’s permanent collection were featured at the Museo Poldi Pezzoli.
“Milan Exhibit Sheds New Light On Renaissance Altarpiece”—Associated Press
“Piero della Francesca’s Augustinian Altarpiece Reassembled After 450 Years”—The Guardian
“A Milan Exhibition Reunites an Augustinian Altarpiece”—Artnet
Frick Madison Last Chance | Winter 2024
Announcement
“The Frick Collection Will Soon Be Going Home”—NY1
“The Frick Goes Back to the Future”—Ocula
“Last Chance to Visit Frick Madison”—Untapped
“See Artistic Masterpieces by Bellini, Goya, Rembrandt & More for a Limited Time”—Secret NYC
“Visit the Frick Collection at the Breuer Building Before It Closes in March”—6sqft
Young Fellows Ball 2024 | Winter 2024
Events
“At The Young Fellows Ball, The Frick Collection Bids Farewell to the Breuer Building”—Vogue
“A ‘Midnight’ of artistry: Inside the Frick Collection’s Young Patrons Gala”—The Villager
“The Frick Young Fellows Ball Was an Interesting Fête”—Guest of a Guest
“Young Fellows Ball 2024: A Farewell to Frick Madison”—East End Taste
Director Ian Wardropper to Retire in 2025 | Winter 2024
Leadership
“Frick Leader to Step Down After a 14-Year Run”—The New York Times
“The Frick’s Longtime Director Ian Wardropper Will Step Down in 2025”—Artnet
“Frick Collection Director to Retire”—The Art Newspaper
“Longtime Frick Collection Director to Retire After Renovation Is Unveiled”—ARTnews
“Ian Wardropper to Depart as Director of Frick”—Artforum
Bellini and Giorgione in the House of Taddeo Contarini | Fall 2023
Installation
“2 Masterpieces Reveal the Big Bang Moment of Our Art Universe”—The New York Times
“A Renaissance Reunion”—The Wall Street Journal
“Relational Aesthetics: Bellini And Giorgione At Frick Madison”—Artforum
“The Frick’s Chief Curator Advances Art History With ‘Dream’ Reunion Of Two Renaissance Masterpieces”—Forbes
“On View at the Frick, a Little Slice of Heaven”—The New York Sun
“St. Francis Reunites with the Three Philosophers at The Frick’s Final Installation”—La Voce di New York
“2 Renaissance masterpieces reunited after 400 years”—Aleteia
Capital Campaign Announcement | Fall 2023
Building Project
“Frick Collection's Fundraising for Renovation And Capital Campaign Reaches $242M”—The Art Newspaper
“The Frick Collection Is Nearing Its $290M Fundraising Goal for Renovations”—Observer
“New York’s Frick Collection Launches Public Fundraising Campaign for Renovation”—Blooloop
Barkley L. Hendricks: Portraits at the Frick | Fall 2023
Exhibition
“For Barkley Hendricks, Finally a Seat at the Head of the Table”—The New York Times
“Barkley L. Hendricks: Portraits at the Frick Review: Infinite Shades of Black”—The Wall Street Journal
“Pioneering Black portraitist Barkley L. Hendricks is first artist of color to get solo show at Frick”—The Associated Press
“The Timeless Black Portraits of Barkley L. Hendricks”—WNYC
“50 Years On, Barkley L. Hendricks’s Eternally Stylish Portraits Still Stop You in Your Tracks”—Vogue
“A Superstar of Portraiture Finally Gets His Due”—Financial Times
“Barkley L. Hendricks: Portraits at the Frick”—The Brooklyn Rail
“A Stunning Show of Portraits by Barkley Hendricks Has Opened at the Frick, Where the Artist Was Once Inspired by Old Masters”—Artnet
“Seeing the Frick Anew Through Barkley L. Hendricks’s Portraits”—Hyperallergic
“Barkley L. Hendricks’s Portraits at The Frick Intimately Depict Black Metropolitan Life”—Artsy
“Barkley L. Hendricks Portraits on View at the Frick”—Amsterdam News
“Barkley L. Hendricks Portraits Get Spotlight at Frick Madison”—NY1
“Barkley L. Hendricks’ Fashion Sense is in Focus at the Frick Madison”—WWD
Frick Diptych Series | Fall 2023
Publication
“Meeting of the Minds”—The Magazine Antiques
Nicolas Party and Rosalba Carriera | Summer 2023
Installation
“Nicolas Party’s Pastels Celebrate the Art and Artifice of Rosalba Carriera”—Financial Times
“Rococo Pops as a Rosalba Pastel is Fittingly Framed”—Apollo
“Nicolas Party Mural Riffs on Rosalba Carriera at the Frick”—Ocula
“At the Frick, an Exploration of Rococo Sumptuousness, Etched in Pastel”—The New York Sun
Frick Madison Final Year | Spring 2023
Building Project
“The Frick Collection Will Close Its Temporary Breuer Space and Reopen Its Newly Overhauled Mansion in 2024”—Artnet
“New York’s Frick Mansion to Reopen in 2024”—Hyperallergic
“Frick Collection Will Vacate Brutalist Madison Avenue Building in Early 2024”—The Art Newspaper
Vermeer at the Rijksmuseum | Winter 2023
Exhibition
The Frick’s three paintings by Vermeer were featured in the Rijksmuseum’s landmark show and returned to the galleries at Frick Madison on June 15, 2023.
“The Absolute Vermeer, in a Show More Precious Than Pearls”—The New York Times
“The Ultimate Vermeer Collection”—The New Yorker
“There Will Never Be Another Vermeer Show as Great as This One”—The Washington Post
“...Small Focus, Wide Reach”—The Wall Street Journal
“The Rijksmuseum’s Vermeer Retrospective Is Momentous and Dizzying”—Financial Times
“Vermeer Review — One of the Most Thrilling Exhibitions Ever Conceived”—The Guardian
“Vermeer at the Rijksmuseum is the Exhibition of the Century”—The Times of London
“The Mysteries of Johannes Vermeer”—CBS Sunday Morning
“Never to Be Repeated Vermeer Exhibition Stuns with Scientific Revelations”—CNN
The Gregory Gift | Winter 2023
Exhibition
“The Gregory Gift Review: A Personal Trove Made Public”—The Wall Street Journal
“Entrancing New York Exhibition at the Frick Madison...”—Design & Art Magazine
“A Visit with The Gregory Gift”—New York Social Diary
Regarding Ingres: Fourteen Short Stories | Winter 2023
Publication
“Frick Masterpiece Inspires Anthology of Short Stories...”—Forbes
The Eveillard Gift | Fall 2022
Exhibition
“...A Sketch of a Great Collection”—The Wall Street Journal
“The Making of John Singer Sargent’s Scandalous Madame X”—Apollo
“A Gift That Keeps Giving”—Our Town
“Frick Flourishes With a Large Gift of Small Works”—The New York Sun
Employment at the Frick
Awards and Highlights
“When Museum Workers Take Over Their Institutions’ Walls”—Hyperallergic
“Mayor Adams, MOPD Acting Commissioner Jackson Host ADA Sapolin Awards Reception in Honor of 32nd Anniversary of Americans With Disabilities Act”—NYC.gov
“Frick Collection Honoured for Employing People with Disabilities”—The Art Newspaper
“Improving Access to Employment for People with Disabilities”—American Alliance of Museums