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Released, like Party Going, in 1939, the film isn’t about either belonging somewhere or being in exile; it is about inhabiting a transient, busy state of unfinishedness.

From The Guardian • Mar. 18, 2017

Kerry James Marshall’s “Untitled” is an idealized portrait of a black female painter combining high finish with three instances of unfinishedness; it looks beautiful next to one of Warhol’s paint-by-numbers canvases.

From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2016

The catalog makes it clearer than the wall labels that the history of Western art, and especially painting, is in many ways a march away from high polish toward unfinishedness, which is primary to modernism.

From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2016

Obrist, for his part, notes that his exhibits often demonstrate what he has called a “quality of unfinishedness and incompleteness.”

From The New Yorker • Dec. 1, 2014

Mr. Holmes said recently that while growing up in Rockland County, N.Y., he was fascinated by the unfinishedness of “Drood.”

From New York Times • Nov. 25, 2012