“There are five Vermeers in the building,” John Updike Curator Aimee Ng proclaimed at a recent preview of the Frick Collection’s first show, “ Vermeer’s Love Letters,” in the newly christened Ronald S ...

Elizabeth Birkelund, though a native New Yorker, has always been a self-proclaimed Francophile. Her Danish heritage also attracted her to Greenland, where she created Ilse—a Greenland-born transplant ...