Explore the treasures of The Frick Collection through the eyes of a diverse group of contemporary writers artists and other cultural figures from George Condo Lydia Davis and Julie Mehretu to Abbi Jacobson and Edmund WhiteA cultural haven for museumgoers in New York and beyond The Frick Collection holds masterpieces by some of the most celebrated artists in the Western traditionamong them Bellini Gainsborough Goya Rembrandt Vermeer and Whistlerinstalled in a Gilded Age mansion on Fifth Avenue.This book includes 61 reflections on the Fricks preeminent collection with the contributors writing about an artwork that has personal significance sharing how it has moved challenged puzzled or inspired them. Each text is accompanied by an illustration of the artwork. For example writer Jonathan Lethem tells how he started going to the Frick as a teenager to gaze at Hans Holbeins portraits of Thomas Cromwell and Sir Thomas More.