Moving the Frick: From Mansion to Modernist Museum (and Back Again)
The renovation of The Frick Collection’s historic buildings on New York’s Fifth Avenue prompted the museum to temporarily relocate to the Breuer building, originally constructed in 1966 for the Whitney Museum of American Art, as Frick Madison. This paper explores the experience of moving the Frick’s historic European paintings, sculptures, and decorative arts from the museum’s Gilded Age mansion to Marcel Breuer’s icon of Brutalist architecture, and the challenges and opportunities of reinstalling the art collection back in its enhanced historic home.

Aimee Ng

The Frick Collection, New York
Aimee Ng is Curator at The Frick Collection, New York. A specialist in Italian Renaissance art, she has organized exhibitions on early modern painting, sculpture, and drawings, including shows on Bertoldo; Parmigianino and Moroni; and European portrait medals. Recent projects focus on British art, including the work of Turner, and Gainsborough, and contemporary art in the context of Old Master painting, such as Barkley L. Hendricks: Portraits at the Frick, and Living Histories: Queer Views and Old Masters, which brought together figurative works by Jenna Gribbon, and Toyin Ojih Odutola with paintings by Holbein, Rembrandt, and Vermeer.