We just visited the newly re-opened Frick museum in NYC on Wed. and I thought I'd pass along a few tips for anyone planning to do the same.
Advance, timed-entry reservations: Get them! It could be because it was a Pay-what-you-wish Wednesday but the line for people hoping to get in on standby tickets was very long. We were happy we'd booked a time slot although....
....even with a designed time slot you may not be getting in at exactly the time you booked. Because of the somewhat limited size of the museum, some bodies need to leave before others can be admitted. We were 2nd in line for the 2:00 time we'd booked, arrived well before that slot, and had been waiting in the hot sun for some time before they let the first 10 booked for that slot in. No idea how long the many others behind that first 10 had to stand around but, well, you could have a longer wait than planned for.
Photography: They are very strict about the no-photos rule. Not an issue for us but eagle-eyed guards sternly reprimanded abusers.
Information about the collection: Bring your phones and Airpods or similar! Some of the art has informative placards but others have numbers tied to the excellent free "Bloomberg Connects" mobile guide. You can easily download it when you arrive or in advance here:
https://www.frick.org/explore
Gift shop: it's small and so entry is controlled: there was a bodies-out-bodies-in line that I passed up.
A wee fun thing I happened to notice: Adelaide Frick’s newly restored boudoir (called The Boucher Room) is lined with amusing panels of chubby cherubs participating in the arts and sciences. At one end of the room is "Bust of a Young Girl":
https://collections.frick.org/objects/91/bust-of-a-young-girl?ctx=d7ad48eab9545d27eb3aa494d9cb7b00348fbe36&idx=78
If you look at the Boucher panel just to the right of the sculpture, you'll see an illustrated sculptor cherub admiring that same bust which he'd just completed. :O)
https://collections.frick.org/objects/49/the-arts-and-sciences-painting-and-sculpture?ctx=18a78729d0722b4975c2b6a9f14e828e52f601de&idx=14
Wow: two valuable Holbein portraits: Thomas Cromwell and Thomas More. They're hung facing each other in the same room in a bit of poignancy as the one gentleman tried to save the other from the block before eventually being relieved of his own noggin.
2nd wow + a disappointment: three (yes THREE) very rare Vermeers in the collection but one of them, "Mistress and Maid"; the last work that Frick acquired before he died, was apparently traveling.
Wonderful collection; highly recommended!