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THE ART MUSEUM is represented by many metaphors: the palace, the temple, and the mausoleum; the theme park and the shopping mall; the cabinet of curiosities and the chamber of dreams. Its purposes, largely those of preservation and display, seem precise enough to need no explanation, but the questions provoked by the museum are legion. What values guide the amassing of the museum’s contents, the artworks or artifacts that are assembled, cared for, and shown, and whom do those values represent? Since the museum, as an institution, belongs to history as much as the objects it contains, can its ....
The Exceptional Frick Collection Has A Captivating, Temporary New Home May 6, 2021 With travel restrictions easing and vaccine seeping into my genes, like a ginormous swallow coming back to San Juan Capistrano I recently returned to Manhattan. For many decades, New York has been the center of the international art world, regardless of whether one is drawn to old, very old, modern, or very modern things. So, after more than a year away from a city that experienced quite a tumult during my absence, reconnecting with the Frick Collection and getting a sense of how both it and the city are doing was a welcome opportunity to appreciate the present and be hopeful for the future. ....
View of the Frick Madison featuring Giovanni Bellini’s St. Francis in the Desert, ca. 1476–78, with a trapezoidal window conceived by Marcel Breuer. Photo: Joe Coscia. ON THE FACE OF IT, the reinstallation of selected works of art from the Frick Collection in the Breuer building at 875 Madison Avenue provides a refreshing change. After as much as a century in the same setting, masterpieces once embedded in a Gilded Age mansion are now out on their own. Hung on the plain walls of a concrete Brutalist icon, spaced apart from each other, paintings, sculptures, porcelains, two rugs, and some great eighteenth-century French furniture have temporarily jettisoned the ornate wood paneling, lavish curtain window treatments, and decorous fountain courtyard of what was once Henry Clay Frick’s private home. ....
Four grand panels of Fragonard’s series The Progress of Love are shown together at the Frick Madison in a gallery illuminated by one of Marcel Breuer’s trapezoidal windows The Frick Collection. Photo: Joe Coscia We knew, yet we didn t know. Until the Frick Collection left its Gilded Age home on Fifth Avenue for temporary encampment in the Marcel Breuer landmark on Madison, we had no idea how seductive it could be for 21st-century sensibilities. Without doubt, no past visitor to the Frick mansion (currently undergoing renovation and expansion by Selldorf Architects), ever experienced its masterworks with the revelatory clarity of its stark presentation in Breuer’s ode to Brutalism. No longer is it any mystery why the Donald Sutherland character in the film ....