Following widespread protests, the Frick is expected to cancel a planned expansion that would have eliminated a rare piece of landscape architecture. “It just became clear to us that it wasn’t going to work,” says an anonymous museum official. “It won’t be the best plan, but we will go back and prioritize. There was just a number of voices out there and we heard them.” (more…)
The Frick Collection has announced an ambitious expansion plan that will add a new six-story wing to the Upper East Side space. The new wing will include a a new rooftop garden, and 60,000 square feet of new exhibition space, totaling 50 percent more room for short-term exhibitions and 24 percent more for a permanent art collection. (more…)
A selection of masterpieces from the Frick Collection are set to tour outside of the United States for the first time ever, showing in The Hague’s Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery. The works will include some of The Frick’s most notable pieces, including John Constable’s spectacular The White Horse, and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres‘ portrait of the Comtesse d’Haussonville. (more…)
Johannes Vermeer, Girl with a Pearl Earring (1665), Courtesy of The Frick Collection
On view at The Frick Collection in New York is a traveling exhibition of beloved Dutch paintings selected from the collection of the Royal Picture Gallery Maurithuis in The Hague, the Netherlands. The paintings will remain on view to the public through January 19, 2014.
