The Frick Collection

🌟 A special thank-you to award-winning illustrator, writer, and cartoonist Bob Eckstein for featuring us in his newly released book, "Footnotes from the Most Fascinating Museums"! At the link below, hear from the author himself on his thought process behind the book, including a favorite tidbit about The Frick Collection. https://nyti.ms/3RU6zEW

The Frick Collection is looking for Engineers and a Custodial Manager! Click on the link below for more information. https://lnkd.in/eGaYWA3i

Round out your sneak peek into the Frick's second floor in our latest behind-the-scenes video! Live from the renovation site, Xavier F. Salomon, Deputy Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator, explores three new galleries: the medals room, the gold-ground paintings room, and the Walnut Room. Originally domestic spaces of the Frick family and later staff spaces, all of these rooms will—for the first time—be open to the public and showcase important small-scale paintings and sculptures. https://bit.ly/3XF0n7Q — Video by the Frick's Media Production Team

Are you looking for the perfect book to dive into this summer? In a new blog post, explore a list of recommended reads from Joey Vincennie, Reference Lead at the Frick Art Reference Library. Joey's picks from the library cover sculptor Augusta Savage, The Ringling Museum's collection, jewelry, and more. Plus, enjoy a rapid-fire Q&A to learn about him and his role at the Frick. 📚 Read the post now: https://bit.ly/3L3kRPL Please note: The library's temporary reading room at 30 East 75th Street will close this Friday, June 28, in preparation for the reopening of our renovated buildings. Library services will pause in July and August, with remote services expected to resume in the fall. — Photo: Joseph Coscia Jr.

In our new episode of "Renovation Stories," Marie-Laure Buku Pongo, Assistant Curator of Decorative Arts, invites us behind the scenes of the installation of the Frick's new second-floor ceramics gallery. The room will showcase mostly pieces of eighteenth-century French faience and will complement two other spaces within the museum's renovated home displaying porcelain. The immersive and colorful new gallery will enable visitors to discover, or rediscover, an important group of the Frick's decorative arts. https://lnkd.in/eg9AyE_P — Video by the Frick's Media Production Team

Happy #PrideMonth! In a recent Artsy article, eight curators—including Xavier F. Salomon, the Frick's Deputy Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator—shared the artists they're championing this month and why. https://bit.ly/3KBnOXz

In a new blog post, Emily Stein, Photoarchivist, takes a look back at our final exhibition at Frick Madison through some related treasures documented in the Frick Art Reference Library's Photoarchive. The exhibition paired Giorgione's "Three Philosophers" with the Frick's beloved "St. Francis in the Desert" by Giovanni Bellini, which both hung in Venetian collector Taddeo Contarini's palazzo centuries ago—along with other works whose identifications Emily explores. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4e1leYJ — Reproductions from the Frick Art Reference Library Photoarchive of Giovanni Bellini (ca. 1424/35–1516), Woman with a Mirror, 1515, oil on panel, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna; and Bellini, Christ Carrying the Cross, ca. 1500–10, oil on panel, Toledo Museum of Art

The Frick Collection's ongoing renovation project aims to restore our historic mansion's original opulence—down to the last detail. In our latest behind-the-scenes video, Jenna Nugent, Curatorial Project Manager, introduces the work done on passementerie, the trimmings and other decorative elements that adorn draperies and wall and furniture upholstery. Follow along as we travel to Paris, to the workshop of Verrier Passementerie, where director Anne Anquetin explains the process of producing new trims to complement or replace the Frick's models. https://bit.ly/4bVOVbD — Video by the Frick's Media Production Team

In this week's episode of "Renovation Stories," Ian Wardropper, Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Director, speaks with Joe Godla, Chief Conservator, about the museum's new Sherman Fairchild Foundation Center for Art Conservation. The state-of-the-art facilities will support the treatment and study of the thousands of three-dimensional artworks in our permanent collection. Together with a new book and paper conservation studio, this space will greatly enhance the vital work of our conservators, who provide world-class care for the Frick's treasures and historic home. https://bit.ly/4dQvt1U — Video by the Frick's Media Production Team

May is #AAPIHeritageMonth! In celebration, the Frick Art Reference Library offers a reading list from our collections that features the work of a variety of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander American artists and scholars. The list includes books that are available to browse in our temporary reading room—which remains open by free appointment—plus two freely accessible e-books. https://bit.ly/3UyqQR2 — Photo: Joseph Coscia Jr.