Introducing Julia Day, the Frick’s New Chief Conservator

Introducing Julia Day, the Frick’s new chief conservator

The Frick veteran is particularly excited about all the new conservation spaces, created as part of the museum’s recent Selldorf-designed expansion

The Frick Collection Appoints Julia Day as New Chief Conservator

The Frick Collection has named Julia Day as its new Chief Conservator. Day, who previously served at the institution for fourteen years, will now lead the museum’s conservation department. She succeeds Joseph Godla, an expert in furniture, who is retiring from the post he has held since 2005. Day returns to the Frick following a period as a senior conservator for the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi. Her career, now in its third decade, includes significant…

Museums: New Leaders Take The Reins At The Expanded Frick Collection - The Magazine Antiques

With an incoming director and the institution’s first two curators of color, the reopening museum is in capable new hands. One of New York’s most cherished museums, the Frick Collection resides in the Fifth Avenue Beaux Arts mansion commissioned from architects Carrère and Hastings by industrialist Henry Clay Frick, who collected principally European fine and decorative arts from the Renaissance ... Read More The post Museums: New Leaders Take T…