ON MARCH 18, the Frick Collection opened the doors to its temporary home in Marcel Breuer's Modernist ziggurat museum on Madison Avenue in New York. It will be the first time that a significant portion of the institution's holdings of old master paintings, Renaissance sculptures, and European decorative arts will be exhibited outside the walls of its Upper East Side mansion. The move is precipitated by architect Annabelle Selldorf's renovation and expansion of the Frick's original home, built in 1914 by Carrere & Hastings for the industrialist Henry Clay Frick. Over the next several years, much of the 1,500-piece collection will be placed in storage in the confines of the Breuer structure, while roughly 300 of the Frick's works of art are displayed on three floors of its galleries. Selldorf, the founding principal of Selldorf Architects, has been in charge of the installation, along with Frick curatorial staff, led by Xavier F. Salomon, and its longtime exhibition designer Stephen Saitas.
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