The Met Breuer building The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Frick Collection announced that they are in discussions to bring the Frick's program temporarily to the Whitney Museum of American Art's Breuer building while the Frick's buildings undergo upgrade and renovation. The Met began programming the Marcel Breuer-designed building on Madison Avenue in 2016, through an arrangement with the Whitney that began after the Whitney moved to its current location in downtown Manhattan in 2015. The collaboration would ensure that the public continues to have access to the Frick's collection, exhibitions, library resources, and education programs. The Frick is anticipated to begin its programming at the Breuer building in late 2020, upon obtaining necessary public approvals of its building project. The Met has been using The Met Breuer as a temporary exhibition space to invigorate the Museum's long engagement with modern and contemporary art within the context of its encyclopedic collection. The Museum has developed a plan that expands Modern and Contemporary programming throughout its Fifth Avenue building, including renewing plans to undertake a rebuilding of its Modern and Contemporary galleries in the Lila Acheson Wallace Wing. Met President and CEO Daniel H. Weiss says, "Our objective in expanding our programming to The Met Breuer was to present the modern collection and other strengths of our encyclopedic holdings, and to enable our curators to organize cutting-edge exhibitions. We are extremely pleased with the visitor response and critical acclaim for these programs and look forward to building on what we have learned in the years ahead at The Met Fifth Avenue." Ian Wardropper, Director of The Frick Collection, comments, "The Frick has been exploring ways to ensure that our visitors can continue to enjoy our collections and have access to our library resources and education programs, as we look forward to the renovation of our home. Collaborating with The Met on a temporary initiative at the Breuer building would enable us to do just that, a mere five blocks away, during a time when the Frick would otherwise need to be closed completely to the public." Adam D. Weinberg, the Alice Pratt Brown Director of…
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