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Behold the Frick
The newly renovated museum is bigger and better than ever.
The cramped Music Room has been reclaimed as gallery space; the 70th Street Garden, created in 1977 by Russell Page, is intact; and although a new look-at-me staircase seems squished into the building, there is a sexy underground auditorium, a 60-seat café, and the entire second floor of the mansion is now filled with art. Helen fell in love with early Italian painting, and in 1927 acquired one of the most beautiful small masterpieces on earth: Duccio’s 1308-11 Temptation of Christ on the Mountain. Let this painting, both luminescent and darkening around its edges, stand for the endless profundities of the Frick, where the heavy damask and dark paneled rooms surround depictions of life and light.
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