Exhibitions

The Frick Collection will be closed May 18–21. We apologize for the inconvenience.

The Ruffles & Ribbons exhibition will be temporarily closed May 13–17. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Current

woman standing in pink and white dress amongst outdoor scene

Gainsborough: The Fashion of Portraiture
February 12 to May 25, 2026

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.

plate with print of the back of woman in a pink dress

Ruffles & Ribbons: Fashion Plates from the Time of Marie Antoinette
April 1 to August 3, 2026

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 will be on view at the Frick for the first time.

close up of woman wailing on bronze relief

Siena: The Art of Bronze, 1450–1500
October 15, 2026 to January 18, 2027

Siena: The Art of Bronze, 1450–1500 is the first exhibition to focus on Siena as a center of artistic excellence and technical innovation in bronze sculpture during the Italian Renaissance. Bringing together some forty works—most of which have never been exhibited outside of Tuscany—the exhibition invites visitors to appreciate the medium’s beauty and versatility while learning about the complex technical and political challenges that the Sienese bronzeworkers faced.

detail of enamel with women playing instruments

Painting with Fire: Susanne de Court and the Art of Enamel
April 8 to July 12, 2027

The Frick Collection will present the first exhibition dedicated to the French enameler Susanne de Court. Active around 1600, De Court is an enigmatic figure in the creation of painted enamels. With nearly one hundred surviving works, she is widely believed to have been the only woman to lead a workshop in Limoges, France. This exhibition will bring together around fifty of De Court’s signed works, inviting visitors to discover her practice and some of the finest examples of her extraordinary output.