The Frick Collection Looks to London For Next Leader

As the Frick Collection in Manhattan prepares to start a new chapter in its renovated Gilded Age mansion early next year, the board on Thursday selected as its next leader Axel Rüger, the secretary and chief executive of the Royal Academy of Arts in London. In the spring of 2025, Rüger, 56, will replace Ian Wardropper, 73, who will have served as director for nearly 14 years of one of the great private collections of European old master paintings and decorative arts. “He brings steady, strategic insight, as well as...