Renovation and Reopening | Spring 2025
Building Project
The museum and library will reopen to the public on April 17, 2025.
“The Frick’s Renovation Is a Showstopper” —The New York Times(link is external)
“Renovated Frick to Reopen in April 2025” —The New York Times(link is external)
“The Frick Collection Is Reopening in 2025”—Time Out(link is external)
“The Frick Collection to Reopen in April 2025 With All Its Gilded Age Splendor” —Observer(link is external)
“Frick Collection to Reopen in April With Vermeer Exhibition in the Works”—The Art Newspaper(link is external)
“New York’s Frick Collection Will Reopen in Spring”—Hyperallergic(link is external)
“The Frick Collection Will Reopen in April 2025”—The Architect's Newspaper(link is external)
“Frick Reopening Date Announced”—Patch(link is external)
“When the Frick Reopens, This Rare Masterpiece Will Welcome the Collection Home”—Artnet(link is external)
Renovation and Enhancement Project Highlighted in Fall Architecture Preview—The New York Times(link is external)
Axel Rüger Appointed as Next Director | Fall 2024
Leadership
“The Frick Collection Looks to London For Next Leader”—The New York Times(link is external)
“Frick Collection Names Axel Rüger Its New Director”—Artnet(link is external)
“Frick Collection Hires Axel Rüger as New Director”—ARTnews(link is external)
“Frick Appoints Axel Rüger Its Next Director”—Artforum(link is external)
Renovation Partner Profiles | Summer/Fall 2024
Building Project
"How Annabelle Selldorf Is Updating The Frick Collection"—Architectural Digest(link is external)
“How Annabelle Selldorf Became the Architect of Our Moment”—Vogue(link is external)
“Star Architect Annabelle Selldorf on Her Vital Mission”—Artnet(link is external)
“Visionary Women Shaping the Art World: Annabelle Selldorf”—Galerie(link is external)
Renovation Stories, Online Programs & Loans | Spring/Summer 2024
Programs
“Frick Collection’s New Digital Programs Precede Reopening”—Forbes(link is external)
“Here’s Everything Going on at the Frick Until It Reopens Later This Year”—Observer(link is external)
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(link is external)
“Frick Museums Partner On Blockbuster Vermeer, Monet and Rembrandt Exhibition”—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette(link is external)
“The Frick Brings ‘Once in a Lifetime’ Exhibition to Pittsburgh”—Pittsburgh Quarterly(link is external)
“Rembrandt, Vermeer Works Highlight New Exhibit at The Frick Pittsburgh”—WESA(link is external)
“See Which New Famous Artists Are Currently in Town at The Frick”—Pittsburgh Magazine(link is external)
“Vermeer, Monet, and Rembrandt Works Come to The Frick Pittsburgh”—Table(link is external)
“Art From the Frick in NYC Is Coming to Pittsburgh”—NEXT Pittsburgh(link is external)
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(link is external)
“Piero della Francesca’s Augustinian Altarpiece Reassembled After 450 Years”—The Guardian(link is external)
“A Milan Exhibition Reunites an Augustinian Altarpiece”—Artnet(link is external)
Frick Madison Last Chance | Winter 2024
Announcement
“The Frick Collection Will Soon Be Going Home”—NY1(link is external)
“The Frick Goes Back to the Future”—Ocula(link is external)
“Last Chance to Visit Frick Madison”—Untapped(link is external)
“See Artistic Masterpieces by Bellini, Goya, Rembrandt & More for a Limited Time”—Secret NYC(link is external)
“Visit the Frick Collection at the Breuer Building Before It Closes in March”—6sqft(link is external)
Young Fellows Ball 2024 | Winter 2024
Events
“At The Young Fellows Ball, The Frick Collection Bids Farewell to the Breuer Building”—Vogue(link is external)
“A ‘Midnight’ of artistry: Inside the Frick Collection’s Young Patrons Gala”—The Villager(link is external)
“The Frick Young Fellows Ball Was an Interesting Fête”—Guest of a Guest(link is external)
“Young Fellows Ball 2024: A Farewell to Frick Madison”—East End Taste(link is external)
Director Ian Wardropper to Retire in 2025 | Winter 2024
Leadership
“Frick Leader to Step Down After a 14-Year Run”—The New York Times(link is external)
“The Frick’s Longtime Director Ian Wardropper Will Step Down in 2025”—Artnet(link is external)
“Frick Collection Director to Retire”—The Art Newspaper(link is external)
“Longtime Frick Collection Director to Retire After Renovation Is Unveiled”—ARTnews(link is external)
“Ian Wardropper to Depart as Director of Frick”—Artforum(link is external)
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(link is external)
“A Renaissance Reunion”—The Wall Street Journal(link is external)
“Relational Aesthetics: Bellini And Giorgione At Frick Madison”—Artforum(link is external)
“The Frick’s Chief Curator Advances Art History With ‘Dream’ Reunion Of Two Renaissance Masterpieces”—Forbes(link is external)
“On View at the Frick, a Little Slice of Heaven”—The New York Sun(link is external)
“St. Francis Reunites with the Three Philosophers at The Frick’s Final Installation”—La Voce di New York(link is external)
“2 Renaissance masterpieces reunited after 400 years”—Aleteia(link is external)
Capital Campaign Announcement | Fall 2023
Building Project
“Frick Collection's Fundraising for Renovation And Capital Campaign Reaches $242M”—The Art Newspaper(link is external)
“The Frick Collection Is Nearing Its $290M Fundraising Goal for Renovations”—Observer(link is external)
“New York’s Frick Collection Launches Public Fundraising Campaign for Renovation”—Blooloop(link is external)
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(link is external)
“Barkley L. Hendricks: Portraits at the Frick Review: Infinite Shades of Black”—The Wall Street Journal(link is external)
“Pioneering Black portraitist Barkley L. Hendricks is first artist of color to get solo show at Frick”—The Associated Press(link is external)
“The Timeless Black Portraits of Barkley L. Hendricks”—WNYC(link is external)
“50 Years On, Barkley L. Hendricks’s Eternally Stylish Portraits Still Stop You in Your Tracks”—Vogue(link is external)
“A Superstar of Portraiture Finally Gets His Due”—Financial Times(link is external)
“Barkley L. Hendricks: Portraits at the Frick”—The Brooklyn Rail(link is external)
“A Stunning Show of Portraits by Barkley Hendricks Has Opened at the Frick, Where the Artist Was Once Inspired by Old Masters”—Artnet(link is external)
“Seeing the Frick Anew Through Barkley L. Hendricks’s Portraits”—Hyperallergic(link is external)
“Barkley L. Hendricks’s Portraits at The Frick Intimately Depict Black Metropolitan Life”—Artsy(link is external)
“Barkley L. Hendricks Portraits on View at the Frick”—Amsterdam News(link is external)
“Barkley L. Hendricks Portraits Get Spotlight at Frick Madison”—NY1(link is external)
“Barkley L. Hendricks’ Fashion Sense is in Focus at the Frick Madison”—WWD(link is external)
Frick Diptych Series | Fall 2023
Publication
“Meeting of the Minds”—The Magazine Antiques(link is external)
Nicolas Party and Rosalba Carriera | Summer 2023
Installation
“Nicolas Party’s Pastels Celebrate the Art and Artifice of Rosalba Carriera”—Financial Times(link is external)
“Rococo Pops as a Rosalba Pastel is Fittingly Framed”—Apollo(link is external)
“Nicolas Party Mural Riffs on Rosalba Carriera at the Frick”—Ocula (link is external)
“At the Frick, an Exploration of Rococo Sumptuousness, Etched in Pastel”—The New York Sun(link is external)
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(link is external)
“New York’s Frick Mansion to Reopen in 2024”—Hyperallergic(link is external)
“Frick Collection Will Vacate Brutalist Madison Avenue Building in Early 2024”—The Art Newspaper(link is external)
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(link is external)
“The Ultimate Vermeer Collection”—The New Yorker(link is external)
“There Will Never Be Another Vermeer Show as Great as This One”—The Washington Post(link is external)
“...Small Focus, Wide Reach”—The Wall Street Journal(link is external)
“The Rijksmuseum’s Vermeer Retrospective Is Momentous and Dizzying”—Financial Times(link is external)
“Vermeer Review — One of the Most Thrilling Exhibitions Ever Conceived”—The Guardian(link is external)
“Vermeer at the Rijksmuseum is the Exhibition of the Century”—The Times of London(link is external)
“The Mysteries of Johannes Vermeer”—CBS Sunday Morning(link is external)
“Never to Be Repeated Vermeer Exhibition Stuns with Scientific Revelations”—CNN(link is external)
The Gregory Gift | Winter 2023
Exhibition
“The Gregory Gift Review: A Personal Trove Made Public”—The Wall Street Journal(link is external)
“Entrancing New York Exhibition at the Frick Madison...”—Design & Art Magazine(link is external)
“A Visit with The Gregory Gift”—New York Social Diary(link is external)
Regarding Ingres: Fourteen Short Stories | Winter 2023
Publication
“Frick Masterpiece Inspires Anthology of Short Stories...”—Forbes(link is external)
The Eveillard Gift | Fall 2022
Exhibition
“...A Sketch of a Great Collection”—The Wall Street Journal(link is external)
“The Making of John Singer Sargent’s Scandalous Madame X”—Apollo(link is external)
“A Gift That Keeps Giving”—Our Town(link is external)
“Frick Flourishes With a Large Gift of Small Works”—The New York Sun(link is external)
Employment at the Frick
Awards and Highlights
“When Museum Workers Take Over Their Institutions’ Walls”—Hyperallergic(link is external)
“Mayor Adams, MOPD Acting Commissioner Jackson Host ADA Sapolin Awards Reception in Honor of 32nd Anniversary of Americans With Disabilities Act”—NYC.gov(link is external)
“Frick Collection Honoured for Employing People with Disabilities”—The Art Newspaper(link is external)
“Improving Access to Employment for People with Disabilities”—American Alliance of Museums(link is external)