Art & Culture
Private, After-Hours Tour for 10 of the Met's Asian Art Collection
- Item Number
- 456
- Estimated Value
- Priceless
- Sold
- 750 USD to aceb32bca
- Number of Bids
- 1 - Bid History
Item Description
An after-hours tour of Age of Empires: Chinese Art of the Qin and Han Dynasties 221 BC-AD 220) with Mike Hearn, The Met’s Douglas Dillon Chairman of the Department of Asian Art. The exhibition, featuring over 160 masterworks from 32 museums in China, has been earning rave reviews including in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal. Age of Empires attracts over 5,000 visitors on a typical Sunday, but you and your guests can enjoy a guided tour all to yourselves.
The Asian collection at the Metropolitan Museum is one of the largest and is the most comprehensive in the West. Each of the many civilizations of Asia is represented by outstanding works that provide—in both quality and breadth—an unrivaled experience of the artistic traditions of nearly half the world. The collection, which ranges in date from the third millennium B.C. to the 21st century, includes paintings, woodblock prints, sculptures, metalwork, ceramics, lacquers, other decorative arts, and textiles from China, Korea, and Japan, as well as the countries of South and Southeast Asia. Since the Museum's centennial in 1970, the department has been engaged in expanding its staff, collections, and display space. This process culminated in 1998 with the completion of an entire wing, occupying 64,500 square feet, devoted to Asian art—a "museum within a museum."
Read an interview with Mike Hearn here: http://www.metmuseum.org/blogs/now-at-the-met/features/2013/mike-hearn-interview
Item Special Note
The time and date must be arranged in advance with the curator. Availability is limited to Monday-Thursday evenings starting at 5:30pm. Tour offer and certificate expires July 14, 2017.
Item certificate may be picked up the night of the Gala, mailed via USPS, or picked up at Third Street Music School after May 9 and until June 1 between the hours of 9:30 am and 5:30 pm or by appointment.
Donated By:
Mike Hearn
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