{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"La Tribune de l&#8217;Art","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.latribunedelart.com","title":"Axel R\u00fcger appointed Director of the Frick Collection","author_name":"Didier Rykner","width":"1600","height":"900","url":"https:\/\/www.latribunedelart.com\/axel-ruger-appointed-director-of-the-frick-collection","html":"\u003Ch4 class='title'\u003E\u003Ca href='https:\/\/www.latribunedelart.com\/axel-ruger-appointed-director-of-the-frick-collection'\u003EAxel R\u00fcger appointed Director of the Frick Collection\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cblockquote class='spip'\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIan Wardropper\u2019s departure as head of the Frick Collection, at the age of 73, was to have been succeeded by Xavier Salomon, the museum\u2019s number two and a curator highly respected by his peers. So it came as a surprise when it was announced that it would not be him, but an outside candidate, the German Axel R\u00fcger, Director of London\u2019s Royal Academy, who would henceforth preside over the destiny of the prestigious New York museum,\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n"}