Two iconic museums in New York and London opened anew in May. The Frick Collection returned to its original home on Fifth Avenue, after expansion works that lasted five years, carried out by Anabelle Selldorf, and the same architect remodeled the Sainsbury Wing as main entrance of the National Gallery at Trafalgar Square, a project that took slightly over two years to complete. Although the Frick reopened at the end of April, capacity limitations moved most of the initial visits to May, and the 10th of that same month marked the inauguration of the National Gallery’s new entry, which modifies Venturi and Scott Brown’s 1991 annex substantially. Neither of the two reopenings has been spared criticism: while the Frick gets reproach for the severe language of its additions, the Sainsbury Wing’s alteration has sparked protest from historians, several presidents of the Royal Institute of British Architects, and Denise Scott Brown herself, who at 93 laments the conversion of the building she and her husband designed into a “circus clown.”...[+]