Frick Collection Reopens After $220M Renovation; Public Access to Private Rooms Begins
Key Takeaways
- The Frick Collection reopens April 17 after a $220M renovation, offering new access.
- Sara Mearns & Jamar Roberts collaborate in 'Dance Is a Mother,' premiering April 2.
- Off-Broadway play explores the life of a transgender rabbi named Eve.
- New York Studio School offers two-week summer art Marathons starting April 1.
- 'Exposure' at Ulterior Gallery runs through April 5; Rebecca Purdum at Pamela Salisbury until April 6.
Museum Updates
Frick Collection reopens April 17 after $220M renovation.
The Frick Collection, following a $220 million renovation, held its opening gala on March 31, 2025, and is set to reopen to the public on April 17, 2025. Member events are scheduled this week.
Frick Collection: Explore family's private rooms after 90 years!
Starting April 1, 2025, visitors can, for the first time in 90 years, ascend the Grand Staircase to experience the family’s private rooms on the second floor of the Henry Clay Frick mansion.
Frick's goal: Preserve beloved aspects with new luster.
On April 1, 2025, Ian Wardropper stated that the goal is to preserve what everyone loved about the Frick, but with new luster and polish after the renovation.
Performance Art Beat
Mearns & Roberts collaborate: 'Dance Is a Mother' premieres!
Sara Mearns and Jamar Roberts are collaborating in Mearns’s Artists at the Center program at City Center. Roberts's new work, “Dance Is a Mother,” premiered on April 2, 2025, and the program opens on April 3, 2025, featuring a cast including Jeroboam Bozeman, Ghrai DeVore-Stokes, and Anna Greenberg, with music by Caroline Shaw.
Transgender rabbi's life explored in new Off-Broadway play.
A play about the life of a transgender rabbi named Eve is opening Off-Broadway, as reported on April 2, 2025. The play explores Eve's journey from her Hasidic Brooklyn upbringing.
Creative Learning
New York Studio School offers summer art Marathons!
Starting April 1, 2025, the New York Studio School is offering two-week summer Marathons in drawing, painting, and sculpture, as reported on April 2, 2025. The program runs daily from 9am to 6pm, with critiques, and includes a Painting Marathon at the Old Westbury Gardens with Rachel Rickert, Painting Marathon with Same Levy, Clintel Steed, and Kaitlin McDonough, and a Sculpture Marathon with Brandt Junceau.
Exhibition Spotlight
Rebecca Purdum's '11 Paintings' exhibition reviewed in Hudson.
On April 1, 2025, John Yau reviewed Rebecca Purdum’s exhibition, "Rebecca Purdum: 11 Paintings," at Pamela Salisbury Gallery in Hudson, New York, which is running through April 6, 2025.
NYC art exhibitions spotlight Holman, Benedit; observe details!
On April 1, 2025, a review highlighted art exhibitions in New York City featuring artists like Deborah-Joyce Holman and Luis Fernando Benedit. The review encourages close observation of details and reimagining familiar themes across exhibitions at various galleries, with several ending this weekend (April 2, 2025).
Gallery Buzz
'Exposure' exhibition at Ulterior Gallery runs through April 5.
Published on April 2, 2025, a review highlights the "Exposure" exhibition at Ulterior Gallery in New York, curated by Carrie Yamaoka, which runs through April 5, 2025.