The Frick Collection in New York received a $750,000 challenge grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for its first Curator of Decorative Arts.
New York's Frick Collection made public on September 14, 2007 that the National Endowment for the Humanities awarded it a $750,000 challenge grant for its first Curator of Decorative Arts, an endowed position as yet unfilled. Once the museum matches the NEH's generous funding, a scholar will be hired. More than 50 percent of the Frick's holdings are in the decorative arts. They include Limoges enamels, 17th- and 18th-century clocks, French 18th-century furniture, Chinese and French porcelains, Mughal carpets and silver objects. The curator will be responsible for interpreting the museum's decorative arts collection, creating humanities-based special exhibitions, academic publications, lectures and educational programs, working with conservation specialists, advising on acquisition decisions and augmenting the Frick Art Reference Library's inventory.
