New Chief Curator for the Frick The Frick Collection has appointed Xavier F. Salomon to be its chief curator, filling a spot left vacant by Colin B. Bailey who left in June to become director of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Mr. Salomon, 34, is joining the Frick after just three years at the Metropolitan Museum of Art where he was a curator of Southern Baroque paintings. "He is a remarkable scholar of great breadth and vitality, borne out of the fact that you will find on his résumé names as far ranging as Veronese, Titian, Carracci, Guido Reni, Van Dyck, Claude Lorrain, Poussin, Tiepolo, Lucian Freud, Cy Twombly and David Hockney,"" said Ian Wardropper, director of the Frick, in a statement. "At the same time he brings to us significant depth in the schools of painting at the core of our old master holdings."" Before joining the Met, Mr. Salomon was the chief curator of the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London. He is an expert in the work of the Italian Renaissance painter Paolo Veronese and the collecting and patronage of the cardinals in 17th-century Rome. He starts at the Frick in January.