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Item Description

Metropolitan Museum of Art docents are highly trained and carefully selected. You and up to three guests are invited to join docent Janet Chan on a private tour of The Met Breuer's inaugural exhibit, "Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible"--highlights of masterpieces from artworks of the Renaissance through modern and contemporary periods.

The Met Breuer - The Metropolitan Museum of Art's modern and contemporary art program includes a new series of exhibitions, performances, artist commissions, residencies, and educational initiatives in the landmark building designed by Marcel Breuer [BROY-er] on Madison Avenue and 75th Street. Now open to the public, The Met Breuer provides additional space for the public to explore the art of the 20th and 21st centuries through the global breadth and historical reach of The Met's unparalleled collection.

Exhibition Overview

This exhibition addresses a subject critical to artistic practice: the question of when a work of art is finished. Beginning with the Renaissance masters, this scholarly and innovative exhibition examines the term "unfinished" in its broadest possible sense, including works left incomplete by their makers, which often give insight into the process of their creation, but also those that partake of a non finito—intentionally unfinished—aesthetic that embraces the unresolved and open-ended. Some of history's greatest artists explored such an aesthetic, among them Titian, Rembrandt, Turner, and Cézanne.

The unfinished has been taken in entirely new directions by modern and contemporary artists, among them Janine Antoni, Lygia Clark, Jackson Pollock, and Robert Rauschenberg, who alternately blurred the distinction between making and un-making, extended the boundaries of art into both space and time, and recruited viewers to complete the objects they had begun.

Comprising 197 works dating from the Renaissance to the present—approximately forty percent of which are drawn from the Museum's own collection, enhanced by major national and international loans—this exhibition demonstrates The Met's unique capacity to mine its rich collection and scholarly resources to present modern and contemporary art within a deep historical context.

This item will go to our Live event on Monday, June 20, 2016. If you will not be attending the Live event, place an absentee bid to increase the odds of winning this prize.

Item Special Note

A mutually agreed upon date and time are negotiable with the guide, Janet Chan. Valid until September 4, 2016.