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June 17, 2009

NYC: Frick Collection; things to do

Frick Collection  

1 E. 70th St./5th Ave, 212-288-0700. Tu-Sat 10-6, Sun 11-5, closed M. $15, 62+ $10, students with ID $5, under age 10 not admitted, Sun 11-1 pay what you wish. Free audio guide with admission.

Jewels of art displayed in the 1914 Frick Collection mansion--which opened as a museum in 1935--include a Rembrandt self-portrait and many jewel-toned El Grecos. Rooms are furnished with 18th-century French furniture, porcelains, and Oriental rugs, and delightful and intriguing French clocks chime on the hour. Though all the artists in the collection, save one, are men, there are many portraits of women.



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