New York City’s Museums and Cultural Institutions Are Having a Renaissance

New York City’s Museums and Cultural Institutions Are Having a Renaissance

The Frick Collection, New Museum, The Met, and Delacorte Theater will all re-welcome visitors this year as part of the city's wave of renovations for its 400th anniversary.

New York. Completely renovated by the German star architect Annabelle Selldorf and with the German Axel Rüger as the new director at the head, the New York Frick Collection opens its doors again on April 17th.

On April 17th, the Frick Collection reopens its doors in New York, after five years of work. The care of its renovation and expansion, for a pharaonic budget, made it possible to return all its chandelier to one of the jewels of the city, the local press rejoices.

The venerable Frick Collection is one of New York's most beautiful and popular museums. Now, after a complete overhaul, it shines in new splendor—and, fortunately, remains unmistakably its original form.

This is a moment of intimacy. Here and now the visitor is offered the opportunity to share, only with some imagination, sensations similar to those experienced by the owner of this mansion, that golden-age American tycoon named Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919).Continue reading...