Frick Director Explains Why Garden Must Be Razed: Hoelterhoff

I’m meeting Ian Wardropper, director of the Frick Collection on Fifth Avenue in New York, in a paneled room where Henry Clay Frick once rested after beating up union folk and buying Old Masters.

Seated at a boardroom table that replaced the old titan’s bed, Wardropper, a respected art historian who came to the Frick in 2011, clicks through an illustrated history of the collection that takes us up to now.