On the plane out to NY last week, I read a blurb in The New Yorker about a special exhibit at The Frick Collection. Its three Vermeers - Officer and Laughing Girl, Mistress and Maid, and Girl Interrupted at Her Music - had not been on display together for nearly ten years.

On Saturday my friend Lisa and I stopped by (after our fabulous lunch at Lupa ) to see the Vermeers and the rest of the collection in the former Frick mansion at East 70th Street. Admission is $15/adult -- a bargain for the breadth and quality of the art on display.

In addition to the delight of seeing the Vermeers lined up next to each other, every single room had a painting or sculpture that was extraordinary - Whistler portaits and landscapes, Hans Holbein's Sir Thomas More and Oliver Cromwell, a Gilbert Stuart George Washington, El Greco's St. Jerome, an incredible Michelangelo bronze sculpture ... the list goes on!

In an odd coincidence, someone had recently asked if I wanted to go to a Turner exhibit, and I'd said I wasn't a huge fan so would skip it. (I'd seen an extensive exhibit at the Tate in London several years ago.) Then I fell in love with two Turner seascapes at the Frick!

I highly recommend The Frick Collection for a few hours of viewing pleasure.

Those paintings are magnificant and to see them together is such a treat.

Did you get to Momofuku's? Their poppy seed crusted fish got a brief mention in Time Out this week.

Regards,
Sheryl

I love the Frick -- one of my all-time favorite museums. Here is an interesting article in the NY Times about its current redecorating, which I guess was the occasion for putting the 3 Vermeers together.

- Roz

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Originally posted by sherylnyc:
Did you get to Momofuku's? Their poppy seed crusted fish got a brief mention in Time Out this week.

I didn't make it to Momofuku ... we were only in Manhattan on Saturday. Lunch at Lupa and dinner at Tre Dici.

But -- we're already making a list for my next visit! After we toured the Frick and took a stroll through Central Park, Lisa and I had just enough time to peek into Bemelmans Bar in the Carlyle Hotel. We both were charmed by it, and want to return for a cocktail. It's got an incredible atmosphere, and looks like the place for "cocktails," not just "drinks."