The Frick Collection

Happy opening day to our friends at The Public Theater! Tonight is the world premiere of "Girl, Interrupted," whose title was inspired by Vermeer’s “Girl Interrupted at Her Music,” here at the Frick 🎭✨

The new play by Martyna Majok, with original music by Aimee Mann, is based on Susanna Kaysen’s 1993 memoir of the same name. Kaysen writes about encountering Vermeer’s painting at the Frick while on a day pass from a psychiatric hospital. She recognized something of herself in its central figure: a young woman paused, unsettled, caught between two states. That fleeting interruption became a lasting metaphor for those suspended months of her life in the hospital.

Find Vermeer's "Girl Interrupted at Her Music" on view in the South Hall during your next visit to the Frick!
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Johannes Vermeer (Dutch, 1632–1675), Girl Interrupted at Her Music, ca. 1658–59, oil on canvas, The Frick Collection, New York

Early summer morning, brought to you by Turner 🖼️☀️

The artist painted this scene on the Thames in 1826 as a commission for William Moffatt, whose estate, just west of London, he shows bathed in a luminous shade of yellow—a signature of his evolving style in the 1820s.

Though Turner called this an "Early Summer Morning," the day is already buzzing with activity, from loaded boats on the river to figures tending the garden (one holding a large scythe). Two fashionably dressed men at the center of the composition have less to do: They lean against the parapet enjoying the view.
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Joseph Mallord William Turner (British, 1775–1851), Mortlake Terrace: Early Summer Morning, 1826, oil on canvas, The Frick Collection, New York

Cool off at the Frick with our new seasonal menu at Westmoreland🍴☀️

Highlights for this season include Spring Pea Risotto with English peas and asparagus, Poached Cod with new potatoes and ramps, and Harvest Salad with snap peas and goat yogurt. Favorites such as Chicken Milanese with lemon aioli and Avocado Toast with pistachio butter, honey, and Calabrian chili oil continue Westmoreland’s approach of refining recognizable classics through thoughtful ingredients and technique.

Plus, don't miss our new Afternoon Tea service, beginning at 1:00 p.m. daily! Learn more: https://bit.ly/430Gdq7
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Photos by George Koelle

Sailing off into the weekend 🌤️⛵

The Frick is open all weekend, including Memorial Day! Plan your visit at frick.org 🎟️
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Bathers near the Frick family’s summer home, Eagle Rock, in Prides Crossing, Massachusetts, ca. 1906, The Frick Collection/Frick Art Research Library Archives

This weekend is your LAST CHANCE to see what the Financial Times calls a "fabulous jewel box of a show" 👒✨

"Gainsborough: The Fashion of Portraiture" is the Frick’s first exhibition dedicated to the English artist and the first devoted to his portraiture ever held in New York. It brings together more than two dozen of Gainsborough’s greatest portraits from across North America and the United Kingdom, representing every stage of his period-defining career. You don’t want to miss it!

The show is up through Monday, May 25, and the museum is open all weekend, including Memorial Day. Learn more and plan your visit at frick.org 🎟️
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Thomas Gainsborough (1727–88), Mary, Countess Howe, 1763–64, oil on canvas, English Heritage, Kenwood House, London; The Iveagh Bequest; all photos by George Koelle

Gainsborough, Mrs. Fitzherbert, ca. 1784, oil on canvas, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, photocourtesy the Legion of Honor

Gainsborough, Bernard Howard, Later 12th Duke of Norfolk, 1788, oil on canvas, His Grace, the Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, Sussex

Gainsborough, Mrs. Sheridan, probably 1783, altered between 1785 and 1787, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.