ARTISTS
2025
It鈥檚 a clich茅 of academic art writing that you can boil just about anything down to being about 鈥渂odies in space.鈥�
Jean-Antoine Houdon鈥檚 six-foot-tall sculpture Diana the Huntress (1776鈥�95) spent much of the past five years in a box while construction workers hammered away nearby.
2023
The head of the Frick Pittsburgh apologized Thursday for the way she handled the postponement of an exhibition of Islamic art, which had been scheduled to open this month before museum leaders decided to delay it because of the Israel-Hamas war.
The director of Pennsylvania鈥檚 Frick Pittsburgh museum apologized on Friday for postponing a show about Islamic art across the centuries.
The Frick Pittsburgh postponed an exhibition featuring 10 centuries of Islamic art that was supposed to open Saturday, citing the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war and the fear that the show could become 鈥渁 source of unintended insensitivity or offense.鈥�
Frick Pittsburgh staff said exhibit would be 鈥榠nsensitive鈥� to Jewish community, but decision angered both Muslims and Jewish people
The Frick Pittsburgh鈥檚 decision was decried by local Muslim civil rights advocates as perpetuating Islamophobic stereotypes.
Local Muslim and Jewish organisations have questioned the decision, suggesting it risks conflating historic Islamic art and Hamas.
2022
The Frick Pittsburgh is presenting Romare Bearden: Artist as Activist and Visionary, an exhibition of original artworks, limited edition prints, and archival materials through which innovative artist Romare Bearden (1911-1988) celebrated African American subjects.
2021
Born in Lahore and based in New York, the painter Salman Toor depicts the lives of queer, South Asian men in imagined surroundings that draw as much from the Old Masters as they do from the modern metropolis.
The Bavarian State Painting Collections, which is based in Munich and manages the art collections of museums located throughout the German state of Bavaria, has restituted a painting to the heirs of an important German-American art dealership.
2019
It鈥檚 fair to say that images of sporting have a relatively marginal place in our art world.
The Frick Pittsburgh has announced that Judith Hansen O鈥橳oole will join the institution as its new interim executive director.
2018
The Frick Pittsburgh announces the opening of a major exhibition at The Frick Art Museum on October 13, 2018. Isabelle de Borchgrave: Fashioning Art from Paper features meticulously crafted and astonishingly beautiful life-size paper sculptures based on historic clothing,...
The Frick Pittsburgh announces that Van Gogh, Monet, Degas: The Mellon Collection of French Art from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts was visited by nearly 48,000 people during its recent presentation at The Frick Art Museum鈥攆ar more than any exhibition in the institution鈥檚...