By Maika Pollack 1/01 3:54pm

On View

Installation view of Christian Marclay's The Clock, 2010

‘Christian Marclay: The Clock’ at the Museum of Modern Art

At this point, even my father, whose tends to skip contemporary art shows for ancient Chinese stone-carving exhibitions, has run into and enjoyed Christian Marclay’s 24-hour film, The Clock. To recap: each scene is sampled from a snippet of a movie or TV show and synchronized with real time such that the film itself can be used as a working clock. Made in 2010, it has already been shown at Paula Cooper Gallery in New York, White Cube in London, the Venice Biennale, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art and, recently, in New York again, at Lincoln Center. It has screened in Glasgow, Ottawa and Yokohama. Several international museums own time-shares of the film. Read More

By GalleristNY 6:00pm

The Clock

Detail of Christian's Marclay 'The Clock,' 2010. (© Christian Marclay. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York)

Christian Marclay’s ‘Clock’ Arrives at MoMA: a Primer

This morning, the Museum of Modern Art hosted a press preview for its presentation of Christian Marclay’s 24-hour film, The Clock (2010), which goes on view in a theater built in the museum’s contemporary galleries tomorrow, Thursday, Dec. 21. It runs through Jan. 21. Before the film went on view this morning, MoMA’s director, Glenn Lowry, discussed the work with Mr. Marclay in front of a packed house of writers in the museum’s atrium. Read More

By Rozalia Jovanovic 9/12/12 8:50am

donuts

Kim. (Courtesy ForYourArt)

As ‘The Clock’ Returns to LACMA, ForYourArt Plans Specially Selected Donut Program

When Christian Marclay’s The Clock goes on view at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art for a 24-hour screening on Sept. 22, there will be a special treat for visitors: free donuts and coffee. ForYourArt is hosting 24 Hour Donut City II: LACMA’s Choice, a pop-up donut shop at its space across the street from LACMA. And while this is the second iteration of the donut shop, this time around, ForYourArt will be stocking its shelves with the favorite picks from the staff at LACMA, including the selections of Franklin Sirmans, Christine Y. Kim and Michael Govan. Read More

By Michael H. Miller 6/07/12 9:34am

The Clock

Still from Christian Marclay's The Clock. (Courtesy the artist and Paula Cooper Gallery)

Times Announced for Next New York Showing of ‘The Clock’

Well, here’s a reason to stay in New York during the dead zone of July and August: Christian Marclay’s 24-hour film The Clock, which counts down the hours and minutes of a full day in real time using clips from movies and television that depict time passing, will be screened at Lincoln Center’s David Rubenstein Atrium July 13 through Aug. 1. It will be shown Tuesdays through Thursdays 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. and continuously starting Fridays at 8 a.m. through Sundays at 10 p.m. Like most commercial galleries, it won’t be open for business on Mondays. Read More

By Andrew Russeth, Rozalia Jovanovic and Dan Duray 4/23/12 9:52am

Happenings

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WEDNESDAY | Lecture: Lorraine O’Grady "Portrait of the Artist" presented by the Performa

8 Things to Do in New York’s Art World Before April 30

MONDAY, APRIL 23

Screening: Bjarne Melgaard Interviews Leo Bersani, at the Kitchen
The indefatigable Norwegian painter Bjarne Melgaard recorded this interview about homosexuality and politics with cultural critic Leo Bersani for his appearance at the 2011 Venice Biennale. What starts out as a “Charlie Rose–like encounter”—to borrow John Kelsey’s description of the piece in Artforum—involves “Melgaard… making digital cocks sprout out of his and Bersani’s on-screen bodies, splattering the video with lewd, orgasmic cybergraffiti, and interrupting the conversation with lowbrow bursts of dated MTV…” And that’s just the start of it. This is the film’s U.S. debut. —Andrew Russeth
The Kitchen, 512 West 19th Street, New York, 7 p.m. Read More

4/19/12 5:47pm

The Clock

Still from "The Clock" by Christian Marclay. (Courtesy the artist and Paula Cooper Gallery)

Christian Marclay’s ‘The Clock’ Will Return to New York

In her Inside Art column in The Times today, Carol Vogel has the scoop that Christian Marclay’s The Clock, a 24-hour video montage that literally counts down the seconds of a full day using clips from throughout film history, will be screened once more in New York. The Clock will be shown for free this summer–”from mid-July to early August,” according to Ms. Vogel–at Lincoln Center’s David Rubenstein Atrium. Read More

By Andrew Russeth 3/16/12 8:41am

Awards

Sarah Sze's installation on the High Line, 'Still Life with Landscape (Model for a Habitat).' (Photo by schmuela/Flickr)

Ai Weiwei, Sarah Sze, ‘The Clock’ Honored in Art Critics’ Association Awards

The International Association of Art Critics’ United States chapter announced yesterday the 24 winners of its 2011 awards. The New York Times first reported the news. Voted on by the 400 members of the organization, the citations are made for first and second place in 12 different categories, with three categories specially addressing New York, which were decided as follows: Read More

2/01/12 12:35pm

The Clock

Still From Christian Marclay's "The Clock" (2010). Courtesy the artist and Paula Cooper Gallery.

Charting Where Christian Marclay’s ‘The Clock’ Will End Up Next

Today it was announced that the Israel Museum jointly acquired Christian Marclay’s The Clock with the Tate in London and Centre Pompidou in Paris. It’s hard to believe it’s been less than a  year since Mr. Marclay’s 24-hour-long film, which cleverly counts down the seconds of a full day using images of clocks from throughout the history of cinema, had its  New York debut at Paula Copper Gallery. The piece caused a sensation, leaving many critics enraptured–aside from a few scattered sticklers. The Clock came in an edition of six, and most have already landed in the permanent collections of major museums. Read More

By Dan Duray, Andrew Russeth and Sarah Douglas 4:59pm

Reviewing 2011

A still from Christian Marclay's "The Clock" (2010). (Courtesy the artist and Paula Cooper Gallery)

It Was a Very Good Year… Sort Of

There Was a Website Launch, and an Artistic Float

As 2011 draws to a close and myriad writers vie to pinpoint the year’s trends and noteworthy developments, whether those be pernicious or salubrious, let it not escape attention that it was the fall of this year that marked the auspicious launch of The Observer’s new website GalleristNY and its accompanying column in the paper, which you are reading this very minute. We promised to describe to you, with verve, the latest news of the art world in New York and, when relevant, beyond. If our visitor numbers are accurate, we believe we have delivered, and we hope to do even more in the New Year. Read More