Frick Madison（弗里克·麦迪逊）临时艺术场馆丨美国曼哈顿

Frick Collection opens in Marcel Breuer-designed temporary new home, Frick Madison

Four grand panels of Fragonard's series

The Progress of Love

are shown together at Frick Madison in a gallery illuminated by one of Marcel Breuer's trapezoidal windows. Photo: Joe Coscia, all images courtesy of The Frick Collection.

While the

Frick Collection

's Gilded Age mansion in Manhattan undergoes a $160-million expansion and renovation project led by

Selldorf Architects

with Executive Architect

Beyer Blinder Belle

, highlights of the substantial art collection have found a temporary new home for the next two years inside

Marcel Breuer

's iconic Brutalist building on Madison Avenue.

The modernist Marcel Breuer building on Madison Ave just opened as the temporary art venue, Frick Madison. Photo: Joe Coscia.

The selection of works shown, and freshly juxtaposed within its unexpected new setting at Frick Madison, includes treasured paintings and sculptures by Bellini, Clodion, Gainsborough, Goya, Holbein, Houdon, Ingres, Piero della Francesca, Rembrandt, Titian, Turner, Velázquez, Vermeer, Whistler, and many others.

Frick Madison exterior. Photo: Joe Coscia

"The Frick has created a sequence of gallery spaces at Frick Madison that reflects the museum’s traditional emphasis on intimate encounters with both art and architecture and allows direct access to objects without the interference of vitrines or stanchions," reads the Frick's statement on its March 18 opening.

On the fourth floor, works by Fragonard are shown. Photo: Joe Coscia.

"Recognizing that Marcel Breuer’s stark creation of stone and concrete provides a very different museum experience than that offered by the Frick’s Beaux Arts mansion, the curatorial team has embraced this modernist setting as a unique opportunity."

Bellini’s St. Francis in the Desert, one of the Frick’s most significant works, is displayed in isolation, paired with one of the Breuer-designed trapezoidal windows. Photo: Joe Coscia.

"Rather than attempting to replicate the mansion’s domestic display, the installation respects the forms and materials Breuer used, juxtaposing beloved Frick masterpieces with the building’s distinct architectural features, such as its signature trapezoid windows."

Selldorf Architects

Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners LLP