NEW YORK, NY.- The Frick Collection today announced a roster of robust digital offerings and partnerships that provide opportunities for the public to engage with the New York institution between the closure of its Frick Madison residency and the reopening of its upgraded East 70th Street home in late 2024.

Among the initiatives are a new video series exploring exciting aspects of the renovation project, a schedule of free online programs offered by the museum’s education department and the Frick Art Reference Library, and several permanent collection loans to institutions in the United States and abroad. Additional ways to experience the Frick’s holdings will be available via its guide on the Bloomberg Connects app, its biweekly newsletter, and its social media channels, including the Frick’s first TikTok presence to be launched this spring.

Renovation Stories

Through this period of transition, a fresh video series will bring audiences behind the scenes of the Frick’s ongoing renovation and enhancement. Offering inside looks at a range of exciting milestones, Renovation Stories will feature key figures in the project who will share insights on the progress of the institution’s historic buildings. Presented in the museum’s period of closure, the series is created for the Frick’s highly engaged digital audiences, who have enjoyed such popular programs as Cocktails with a Curator.

Renovation Stories will be released approximately every two weeks—first to members starting Tuesday, March 12, then to general audiences the following week via the Frick’s social media channels. Fifteen or more videos are planned through the end of the year. Each about two to five minutes in length, episodes will be presented by a wide range of contributors to the renovation project, including director Ian Wardropper; architect Annabelle Selldorf; curators Xavier F. Salomon, Aimee Ng, Giulio Dalvit, and Marie-Laure Buku Pongo; chief conservator Joseph Godla; and many others, supported by on-site footage, interviews, historical images, and drone captures.

The first biweekly video will feature Carolyn Straub, architect and Associate Director for Capital Projects, discussing the extraordinary depth of the Frick’s archives and how this material has informed the renovation from planning to execution. Other spring and summer releases will spotlight the restoration of the interior Garden Court fountain; the reinstallation of a series of outdoor statues never before displayed publicly; the creation of new conservation studios; textile treatments throughout the mansion; and the recreation of the Frick family’s second-floor Breakfast Room as a new gallery space.