The Frick Collection

Organized in conjunction with Gainsborough: The Fashion of Portraiture , this Cabinet installation presents twenty-four hand-colored engravings that depict French fashion in the late eighteenth century. These plates are selected from Gallerie des modes et costumes français (1778–87), the largest and most influential series of its day. No complete set of Gallerie des modes survives today. Many were discarded when fashions changed, and others could have been destroyed during the French Revolution. The Frick Art Research Library has an impressive collection of three hundred and seventy original prints , a selection of which are on view at the Frick for the first time.

Gainsborough: The Fashion of Portraiture explores the relationship between works by period-defining English artist Thomas Gainsborough and fashion, a concept and industry that touched nearly every aspect of British society in the eighteenth century. The museum's first special exhibition dedicated to the artist—and the first devoted to Gainsborough's portraiture ever held in New York—this show brings together over two dozen of Gainsborough's most spectacular portraits from across North America and the United Kingdom, representing each stage of his four-decade career.

This groundbreaking exhibition presented more than forty rare objects from the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. These treasures were donated by European Catholic monarchs and Holy Roman Emperors in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to the church in Jerusalem, the religious center of the Christian faith, and have been safeguarded and used ever since by the Franciscan friars who maintain the site.

Taking inspiration from the French Rococo, Italian Baroque, and Abstract Expressionist movements, Flora Yukhnovich (b. England, 1990) creates work that is at once modern and timeless by translating historic compositions into contemporary abstractions. Using the Frick's Four Seasons by François Boucher as a point of departure, Yukhnovich's site-specific mural covers the walls of the museum's Cabinet.

The unprecedented installation of paintings united in the exhibition Vermeer’s Love Letters pairs the Frick’s Mistress and Maid with special loans of the Rijksmuseum’s Love Letter and the National Gallery of Ireland’s Woman Writing a Letter with Her Maid . Their presentation together in a single gallery for the first time offers visitors an opportunity to consider Vermeer’s treatment of the theme of letters as well as his depiction of women of different social classes.

Coinciding with the reopening of its newly renovated and enhanced home on Fifth Avenue, The Frick Collection presented a series of commissioned works by sculptor Vladimir Kanevsky (born 1951, Ukraine). Known for his life-like porcelain flowers, Kanevsky's sculptures have been exhibited in museums around the world, including the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, and Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens in Washington, D.C.