Frick Collection Announces Reopening Date On Upper East Side

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — The Frick Collection's eagerly awaited reopening now has an official date: on March 18, the museum will open the doors of its temporary home in the former Met Breuer building on Madison Avenue.

The Frick's mansion home on Fifth Avenue remains closed as it undergoes a major renovation. The museum has long planned to move its collection into the Breuer building in the interim, but that move, originally set for 2020, has faced delays during the pandemic.

"We are looking forward to sharing our collections again in person, reframed in a setting that has inspired fresh perspectives," director Ian Wardropper said in a statement on Tuesday.

Dubbed Frick Madison, the building, which was the Whitney Museum's longtime home, will welcome back visitors from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Thursdays through Sundays.

Timed entry tickets will be sold online starting Feb. 19. Capacity will be limited to 25 percent.

Last fall, the Frick revealed which artworks will be on display during the two-year stay at 945 Madison Ave.: paintings and sculptures by such artists as Goya, Rembrandt, Titian, Velázquez, Vermeer and Whistler, arranged chronologically and by region rather than being scattered throughout the museum, at they were in the original building.

The museum will also offer refreshments and snacks by Joe Coffee, with outdoor seating available.

Programming will also include decorative arts, seventeenth-century Mughal carpets and rarely-seen canvases from the French painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard's series, "The Progress of Love."

The Frick aims to wrap up renovations by 2023 at its home on Fifth Avenue and East 70th Street.