The Frick Returns April 13, 2025
Posted by judylobo in Zoo.Tags: art, Art exhibit, Breuer, Frick Museum, Gilded Age, Neue, NYC, photography, Rembrandt, Sothebys, Vermeer, Whistler
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After a $220 million dollar renovation I would look good too. The Frick Museum reopens to the public this week after a five year absence. I have kept my membership thru these years as their collection (or some of it) was exhibited at the old Whitney (now called the Breuer and soon to be home of Sothebys – whew! It is hard to keep track). We had the opportunity to visit a week ago for Member’s Preview. Long story short – it was money well spent. After 100 years visitors are allowed to ascend their glorious staircase and see where the Frick family lived and slept. The collection of art is glorious. They have three Vermeer’s, Rembrandt’s, Whistlers, Ingres and so much more. They also have art that I find meh. I have never been a fan of Fragonard (girls on swings) type of art. There are several wonderful articles that appeared this past week from writers more talented than me for you to read. I found the articles about the artisans who worked on the renovation fascinating. My pet peeve has always been when museums do not allow photos. I never understood those silly rules. Flash cameras have gone the way of the steam engine yet those silly rules still exist. The Neue Museum and The Frick are two of the museums in the city who have that rule. However – for the previews, they allowed as much photography as you wanted to shoot. I am not sure if this rule has been lifted or if it was only for the previews. The other rule that I do like is that the Frick still does not admit children under 10. So that means no strollers (and that’s a good thing). Their cafe will be open soon. I encourage you to visit this glorious home and see how they lived in the Gilded Age.
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What a gem the Frick is! (And I see you included a photo of the girl with the dislocated shoulder, hahahahaha!!)
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My favorite painting now. LOL
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WOW
I loved the Guilded Age!
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Love the Frick….thanks for sharing this Judy!
By the way, I recently heard about a man leaving an art museum who got arrested for stealing a painting.
Didn’t make sense, because the person asked the guide if he could take a picture and she said, ” yes”! 🙂
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Hahahahaha! That’s a very good one Mary
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for once i can say, i’ll have to get myself there — got myself there on saturday! having bought a membership so that i could go during member previews (!). fabulous! though somehow i missed that glorious staircase (and definitely is), went up stairs by ticketing area. (and why didn’t i go back and ascend? (!)) well, then … i’ll just have to go back and ascend (!!). and one of your pics, two women, upon quick glance at the plaque with title, and the lighting/my eyes, i read it as “waitress and maid”, which, of course, made no sense, the “blinked” and read again — “mistress and maid” (!!). and regarding the taking of pics, heard one of the staff tell the people in the room that photographing allowed during members only preview, to be rescinded once museum open to the public. planning to return in june once the cafe is open — hopefully they’ll be at least one item on MY menu (!). and as for the frick — had a cousin who was an art historian, the frick was his favorite nyc museum.
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So very glad you got to go to the preview. Also sad to hear their stupid no photos policy will be back. Oh well. Another gripe for another day.
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