The New York City landmark museum reopens in April 2025 following a five-year programme to enlarge and remodel its historic Fifth Avenue home, overseen by the architect Annabelle Selldorf

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Renewed Frick Collection balances tradition and transformation

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The renovation of the Frick Collection: 2020-25

The $240m renovation of the collection's Golden Age home on Fifth Avenue includes the remodelling of the entrance hall, the creation of a special exhibitions gallery, a café and an auditorium, modernising the conservation studios, physically uniting the research library to the museum building and providing designated space for education, research, and public programmes


Frick Collection's fundraising for renovation and capital campaign reaches $242m

Fourth time's a charm: Frick Collection announces new renovation and expansion plans

Building projects

New perspectives: Annabelle Selldorf brings a fresh angle to the National Gallery’s Sainsbury Wing

Museums & Heritage

Frick Madison 2021-24

From March 2021 to March 2024, during renovation work on the Frick Collection's Fifth Avenue museum, a large part of the collection was put on show at the Marcel Breuer-designed former home of the Whitney Museum of American Art. Annabelle Selldorf, architect of the Frick's renovation, also remodelled the Brutalist masterpiece on Madison Avenue as a temporary home for the historic collection of Henry Clay Frick.

Beauty in the Brutalist beast: a critic's view of the Frick Madison

The Insiders

Old Masters meet Brutalism: inside Frick Madison in New York

Podcasts

In Pictures: an early look inside the Frick Madison

Contemporary paintings will hang with the Frick’s Old Masters in new art series

Frick Collection will vacate Brutalist Madison Avenue building in early 2024

Exhibitions

As part of the renovation of its Fifth Avenue home, the Frick Collection will have a new three-room space for temporary exhibitions from April 2025. The first show, of the work of Johannes Vermeer, features a loan from the Rijksmuseum, one that acknowledges the Frick sending three paintings to the historic 2023 exhibition of the Dutch master's work in Amsterdam

Frick Collection to reopen in April with Vermeer exhibition in the works

Frick collection invites contemporary artist into its permanent galleries for the first time

A major minor master: Jonathan Brown on Anthony van Dyck at the Frick Collection

The Big Review: Vermeer at the Rijksmuseum ★★★★★

Catalogue captures re-creation of the destroyed Tiepolo ceiling frescoes in Milan

Book Shorts

Institutional loans

The Frick Collection makes national and international loans from its holdings. In 2023, during the renovation of its historic New York home, the collection lent its three Vermeer canvases for the first time—to the Rijksmuseum's historic survey of the Dutch master's work. In 2024-25 the collection lent one of Duccio's 

 at the Metropolitan Museum, New York, and the National Gallery, London

The Big Review | 14th-century Siena is magnificent at the Met ★★★★★

The Big Review

Vermeer special: the man, the show and an attribution debate

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Vermeer roll call: final loans for Rijksmuseum blockbuster include masterworks from the Louvre and Met

Acquisitions

The Frick Collection makes periodic acquisitions—either through bequests of art or of money to acquire new works—to add to the core collection left by Henry Clay Frick and his family

New York's Frick Collection acquires its first-ever Renaissance portrait of a woman

Sargent, Goya, Degas: Frick Collection welcomes its most significant gift to date of works on paper

Celebrating a generous donation to the Frick, this booklet pays tribute to the donor and his gift

Acquisitions round-up: two London museums jointly purchase a masterpiece of the Aesthetic movement

Top five acquisitions in June 

Research and conservation

The Frick Collection contains a conservation studio and research library, both of which have been modernised and more closely integrated with the museum in the 2025 renovation of the collection's New York home

The master's hand: a treasured Vermeer gives up its secrets 

Conservation & Preservation

Frick shows that collecting is a scholarly subject

News

Culture Pass brings library patrons to New York museums—and now, museums to libraries

Very much an acquired taste: how did so many Italian baroque paintings end up in US museums?

Books

Can AI shed new light on how much of The Polish Rider was painted by Rembrandt?

Technology

The collection

Alex Rüger, the Frick's director, and some 35 senior staff oversee the museum's permanent collection of more than 1,800 works of art housed in the former residence of the industrialist Henry Clay Frick.

Frick Collection director to retire after $195m renovation

Frick Collection honoured for employing people with disabilities 

Read what Jenny Saville, George Condo and Victoria Beckham have to say about their favourite Old Master paintings

Book Club

How to see every painting by Johannes Vermeer

Johannes Vermeer

The Year Ahead 2025: market predictions, the big shows and openings—podcast

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