Art Review
When One Door Opens, Another Transports Us
Christian Marclay’s most recent assemblage-style film splices together cinematic clips of doors and the various comings and goings they usher.
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Christian Marclay’s Disorientation Project
His work suspends us in the flow of time, calling attention to the scattered technologies that have defined our lives.
Art
Navigating the Overload at the Venice Biennale
The Venice Biennale’s official exhibition, May You Live In Interesting Times, presents art that speaks to the present, not in the direct fashion of journalism, but in ways that can challenge existing habits of thought.
Art
From Silver Screen to Boob Tube, Mass Media Art Goes to the White Cube
That film is open to all sorts of escapes, inspirations, and incursions has long been the stuff of movies.
Art
Photography's Blue Period Gets Its First Major Show in the US
In 1842, British scientist Sir John Herschel experimented with the effect of light on iron compounds, inventing a process to produce the blue-tinted prints we know as cyanotypes.
Art
The Year of Rain and Cronuts
The New York art world was thrown a free joke when, over the summer, people waited in the rain to get into the Museum of Modern Art's Rain Room, a project by the studio Random International. The line was a capstone to a year of big projects with big draws, one more peak in a now-familiar rhythm: eve
Opinion
Six Things I Learned — and One I Didn’t — from Christian Marclay’s “The Clock”
Last week, I trekked up to Lincoln Center to see part of The Clock, Christian Marclay's film collage that has had the art world's knickers in a twist for about a year and a half now.
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It Was Donut O’Clock at Christian Marclay’s LA Screening
LOS ANGELES — It’s no secret that food is a no-fail come-on for an art opening. Food and drinks = sated audience ready to indulge the higher rungs of their hierarchy of needs. Last weekend, Los Angeles-based For Your Art hit on Los Angeles’ sweet spot with a 24-hour pop-up shop serving donuts from a
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, Christian Marclay's unoriginal(?) "The Clock," art in post-revolution Egypt, power of Renaissance portraiture, GIF trends, Gagosian troubles, Adolph Gottlieb's words in 1966 and more.
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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.
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Germany Snags Venice Biennale's Top Prize, Christian Marclay for Best Work
The 54th Venice Biennale has awarded its top prize, the Golden Lion for best national pavilion, to Germany for the art of Christoph Schlingensief. The best art work was given to Christian Marclay's "The Clock" (2011). [In the Air/Artinfo [http://blogs.artinfo.com/artintheair/2011/06/04/germany-takes