From time to time, you might notice a shot of a clock in a movie. In a film like "Back to the Future," they're key to the plot; lightning strikes the clock tower at exactly 10:04 p.m. But often, ...

The Boston MFA is purchasing Christian Marclay's epic movie mash-up “The Clock” (2010) (recently on view in NYC) for $250,000. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art bought the piece in April, and there ...

A spectacularly simple idea makes for a spectacular 24-hour film, a work as strong and strange as Warhol’s Empire, and something one of our local museums ought to buy and place on permanent ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. ‘The Clock’ -- the art installation piece that uses snippets from films ...

John Constable and J. M. W. Turner turned to the British skies for their inspiration. Lucian Freud found it in human flesh. Christian Marclay looked down to the sidewalks of London, and found themes ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Artist Christian Marclay’s ‘The Clock,’ which was screened beginning at ...

Perhaps too right. The austere bunker of a room was so insulated that you couldn’t hear the blasts and gunfire of 48 films playing simultaneously that bled (and still bleeds) through the Arsenale at ...

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Christian Marclay, the artist best known for his 24-hour film montage “The Clock” — shown to great acclaim at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2013 — will be honored with the museum’s 2016 ...

My nominee for Best Picture of the year -- maybe the best picture ever, because it’s essentially made up of and is an ecstatic love letter to all other movies -- is Christian Marclay’s endlessly ...