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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. The line to see ...

The Clock, Christian Marclay’s 24-hour real-time montage of cinematic history, will be traveling to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, next year in conjunction with the museum’s reopening on ...

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 ...

How did you wind up here at midnight? I went to see The Clock on a Saturday afternoon, and I thought, It would be nice to see how the movie depicts nightlife. So I looked into it and saw that 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 ...