Frick collection invites contemporary artist into its permanent galleries for the first time — theartnewspaper.com

A previous site-specific work by Edmund de Waal, a promise (2012), installed at Waddesdon Manor Photo: Paul Barker, 2012 The Frick Collection in New York will have its first-ever intervention by a contemporary artist in its permanent collection galleries next May, when the UK artist and writer Edmund de Waal will install site-specific porcelain works. “When you go to the Frick, it’s very easy to just go and see the Old Master paintings,” says Charlotte Vignon, the museum’s curator of decorative arts, who is organising the presentation. “So his work will hopefully [make] the visitor stop and look at the rooms, and the collection as a whole, as this big sculpture—as a work of art by itself.”

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