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# Life Imitating Art: Melting Clocks
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/life-imitating-art-melting-clocks/
- Published: 2012-12-12T12:30:24.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:35:58.000Z
- Description: Sometimes art comes first …
- Author: Hrag Vartanian
- Tags: Art, Photo Essays, Salvador Dali, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 06:51 (2012, 2013, part 1)

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Andrew Moore, National Time clock, former Cass Technical High School building, 2009, digital chromogenic print scanned from film negative, 34 x 27 in., Collection of Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell (via businessinsider)

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Salvador Dalí, “The Persistence of Memory” (1931) (original in the collection of MoMA)