January 16, 2019
All Blogs
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Letter from the Director: Summer 2019
Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Director Ian Wardropper discusses the recent announcement of a named position at the Frick, as well as current exhibitions, including Elective Affinities: Edmund de Waal at The Frick Collection.
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Rediscovering Vermeer’s "Mistress and Maid": The Newest Book in the Frick’s Diptych Series
Margaret Iacono, Associate Research Curator, writes about Vermeer’s Mistress and Maid, the second installment in the Frick’s Diptych book series.
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Letter from the Director: Winter 2019
Director Ian Wardropper encourages visitors to view the architectural model of the Frick’s proposed renovation project and discusses the current exhibition, Moroni: The Riches of Renaissance Portraiture.
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Artists Night
In January, the Frick hosted Artists Night, a special evening of sketching from artworks and models inspired by Luigi Valadier: Splendor in Eighteenth-Century Rome. -
Guided School Visits: I.S. 131
To expand access to the Frick for New York City students, the Frick waives guided visit fees for public schools that are, like I.S. 131, designated as Title I (schools with a high percentage of students from low-income families). -
Forum on Canova and the Presidential Image
This summer, Education organized a three-part series examining the presidential image, as framed by the special exhibition Canova’s George Washington. -
Jacob and His Twelve Sons: An Interfaith Perspective
In April, the Frick offered a program for lively discourse at the intersection of art, history, and religion. The program, Jacob and His Twelve Sons: An Interfaith Perspective, was presented in conjunction with the special exhibition Zurbarán’s Jacob and His Twelve Sons. -
Alfred Cook's "Progress Photographs"
From 1931 to 1935, Alfred Cook, a footman to the Frick family, documented the transformation of the Frick’s Gilded Age mansion into a public art gallery and research center in a series of evocative “progress photographs.”
