MoMA Latest Museum to Acquire Christian Marclay's "Clock"
We already knew New York is a 24-hr city, but with the acquisition of Christian Marclay's "The Clock" by MoMA, art lovers will have something to watch during every friggin' minute of it.
We already knew New York is a 24-hr city, but with the acquisition of Christian Marclay’s “The Clock” by MoMA, art lovers will have something to watch during every friggin’ minute of it. The work is a promised gift from the collection of Jill and Peter Kraus.
MoMA’s chief curator of media and performance art, Sabine Breitwieser, has this to say:
With his magnum opus “The Clock,” Marclay highlights the virtuosity of sampling and remixing as contemporary methods that underline the importance of editing as a highly creative process … While the sound functions as the glue for Marclay’s film essay, which walks us through more than 100 years of the history of cinema, it is an inherently performative work due to the connection between the work and the visitor’s experience in real time.
Well, it certainly is a crowd pleaser of an art work, and I’ll be psyched to one day attend a 24-hour screening at MoMA with a six-pack of Red Bull in hand.
Btw, LACMA in LA and MFA in Boston already have their own copies.
