Met Breuer Sneak Peek

This month the Metropolitan Museum of Art expands to its third site, moving into the former Whitney building designed by Marcel Breuer on Madison at 74th Street.

WNYC art critic Deborah Solomon previews its opening exhibition.

And a piece of good news Solomon couldn’t help but emphasize several times: the new Met Breuer is pay-what-you-wish admission!

1. 

Titian, "Flaying of Marsyas" probably 1570s

(Archidiocese Olomouc, Archiepiscopal Palace, Picture Gallery, Kroměříž (KE 2370,0,107)/Metropolitan Museum of Art)

2. 

Jan van Eyck, "Saint Barbara" 1437

(Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp (410)/Metropolitan Museum of Art)

3. 

Lucian Freud, "Self-Portrait," 2002

(Private collection, courtesy Ordovas/Metropolitan Museum of Art)

4. 

Alice Neel "James Hunter Black Draftee" 1965

(COMMA Foundation, Belgium/Metropolitan Museum of Art)

5. 

Robert Smithson, "Mirrors and Shelly Sand," 1969-70

(Dallas Museum of Art/Metropolitan Museum of Art)

6. 

Andy Warhol, "Do it Yourself (Violin)," 1962

(Private collection/Metropolitan Museum of Art)