{"id":4226,"date":"2021-03-20T23:06:04","date_gmt":"2021-03-20T23:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marigoldonline.net\/?p=4226"},"modified":"2021-03-20T23:06:04","modified_gmt":"2021-03-20T23:06:04","slug":"fricked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marigoldonline.net\/?p=4226","title":{"rendered":"Fricked"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Breuer\/Whitney\/MetBreuer\/Frick Madison<\/p><\/div>\n

Since it opened in 1963 I have disliked the building I still refer to as the Whitney Museum but is more correctly known as the Breuer after architect Marcel Breuer who designed it. Large, overbearing, and apparently a huge drain on the already-precarious Metropolitan Museum of Art resources, (the Met was the tenant between the Whitney and today), the Brutalist building has an almost \u201cI dare you to enter quality.\u201d (It did have a lovely if tremendously overpriced restaurant downstairs but that\u2019s another story.)<\/p>\n

Now The Frick has moved its collection to the Breuer while the Frick itself, originally home of robber baron Henry Clay Frick, undergoes a multi-year renovation.<\/p>\n

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Henry Clay Frick<\/p><\/div>\n

The collection appears entirely fresh with paintings, sculpture, carpets, porcelain and furniture set off by plain gray-blue walls so the art looks very different from when items were grouped together. In the \u2018old\u2019 Frick both groupings and architecture often fought with the works producing an odd tension. At the Frick Madison, as is it being called, (but we New Yorkers won\u2019t do that just as we don\u2019t call it the Avenue of the Americas preferring old-style Sixth Avenue), there is nothing to distract the eye.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t hurt that entrance is by timed ticket only so, although the space is far from empty, there aren\u2019t overwhelming crowds. There is phone-linked \u2018commentary\u2019 courtesy of Bloomberg which is not a cinch to use but once worked out with the help of a guard has interesting narrations by Xavier F. Salomon, Deputy Director, and Curator, Aimee Ng. (Minor aside: if you never watched Salomon and Ng on the Frick YouTube series, Cocktails with a Curator, <\/em>head right over there: https:\/\/www.frick.org\/interact\/miniseries\/cocktails_curator<\/a>)<\/p>\n

What\u2019s on view is a \u201cgathering of highlights from the Frick\u2019s permanent collection outside the domestic setting of the Gilded Age mansion,\u201d with works organized chronologically and by region. Now a member, I plan to return often.<\/p>\n

I considered a recipe for Oh Henry bars or one from Frick\u2019s Meats, in business since 1896, but opted instead for drinks from Salomon\u2019s presentation of The Polish Rider<\/em>, a painting by Rembrandt on view. The complementary cocktail is the Szarlotka made with \u017bubr\u00f3wka (vodka infused with bison grass). Here\u2019s the recipe:<\/p>\n

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Rembrandt’s The Polish Rider<\/p><\/div>\n

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Szarlotka<\/strong><\/p>\n

1\/3 iced \u017bubr\u00f3wka Bison Grass Vodka (if you settled for other vodka I doubt if either Rembrandt or Salomon would come after you)
\n2\/3 chilled freshly pressed apple juice\/cider
\npinch of ground cinnamon<\/p>\n

And here\u2019s the mocktail presented for the under 21 set:<\/p>\n

Apple\u00a0juice
\nCinnamon<\/p>\n

No measurements provided but a little cinnamon goes a long way.\u00a0 The Polish version of cheers! Is Na Zdrowie! (Nah zdrov-e-yay). \u00a0Na Zdrowie to the Frick Madison!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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