January 16, 2019
All Blogs
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Staff Favorites: Monster Slayer
Lorenzo De Los Angeles III, Reference Assistant, Frick Art Reference Library, considers the French seventeenth-century bronze Hercules and the Hydra in the context of the 1963 sci-fi flick Jason and the Argonauts. -
Staff Favorites: Forging My Way
Isabel Losada, Manager for Membership, didn’t hesitate when asked during a job interview, “What work of art best illustrates your work ethic?” Her answer: Goya’s depiction of three metalworkers engaging in intense labor. -
Staff Favorites: I Thought That Guy Looked Familiar
Liz Daly, Community Relations Manager, had an epiphany some years ago while looking at El Greco’s St. Jerome: That guy looks exactly like Samuel Beckett. -
Staff Favorites: A Blind Date at the Frick
Monica Sands, Sales Associate, Retail and Visitor Services, imagines her parents stopping to look at Vermeer's Officer and Laughing Girl during a blind date at The Frick Collection in the mid-1950s. -
Staff Favorites: From Comics to the Dutch Golden Age
Tommy Mishima, Museum Shop Inventory Coordinator, recalls seeing Rembrandt’s Self-Portrait in a children’s encyclopedia when he was eight years old. Ten years later, he came face-to-face with the painting for the first time. -
85 Frick Facts for 85 Years
In celebration of The Frick Collection’s eighty-fifth anniversary, commemorating the museum’s opening to the public in December 1935, explore a list of surprising Frick facts—one for each of our eighty-five years—and put your Frick knowledge to the test. -
More Than a Museum: Early Responses to The Frick Collection
On the occasion of the museum’s 85th anniversary, discover the colorful early press reactions to The Frick Collection’s 1935 opening. -
Ars Longa: Photoarchive Retraces History of Separated Rubens Paintings
Ars Longa is a blog series exploring lost, altered, and destroyed works of art that are preserved in the records of the Frick's Photoarchive. In this post, the Photoarchive helps us uncover the complex history of a painting by the circle of Peter Paul Rubens, two separate panels of which today reside in two different museums. -
"Technological Revolutions and Art History": Four-Part Symposium Weighs Urgent Questions in the Field
Co-sponsored by the Museum of Modern Art and the Frick Art Reference Library, this upcoming four-part symposium examines the connections between science, technology, and art history. Read more for a preview of the important topics under consideration, including what technological advances might benefit the study of art in the near future.
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Remembering Helen Sanger, Frick’s First Mellon Chief Librarian
Helen Sanger (1923–2020), the Frick Art Reference Library’s first Andrew W. Mellon Chief Librarian, passed away in July at the age of 96. Her forty-seven-year career at the library shaped the institution profoundly, and her legacy lives on in many areas of its initiatives.
