Christian Marclay: The Clock

November 10, 2024 – February 17, 2025

The Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art will present Christian Marclay’s The Clock for the first time in New York City since its last presentation at the Museum, which took place from December 2012 to January 2013. Encapsulating 100 years of moving-image history, The Clock (2010)—on view in MoMA’s second-floor collection galleries from November 10, 2024, through February 17, 2025—is a 24-hour montage composed from around 12,000 film and television clips depicting clocks and other references to time. With each clip synchronized to the local time, The Clock is both a functioning timepiece and a cinematic tour-de-force. Building on his background as a musician in Boston and New York’s underground scenes of the late 1970s and 1980s, Marclay has for five decades combined visual and sonic fragments to explore the complex relationships between image and sound. With the help of assistants searching for
footage, Marclay spent three years meticulously editing The Clock —a singular example of his innovative approach to looking at the world anew through found material. Christian Marclay: The Clock is organized by Stuart Comer, The Lonti Ebers Chief Curator of Media and Performance, and Erica Papernik-Shimizu, Associate Curator, Department of Media and Performance, with Abby Hermosilla, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Curatorial Affairs.

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Christian Marclay. Still from The Clock. 2010. Video (black and white and color, sound). 24 hrs. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Promised gift from the Collection of Jill and Peter Kraus. © 2024 Christian Marclay. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery and White Cube

Christian Marclay. The Clock. 2010. Video (black and white and color, sound). 24 hrs. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Promised gift from the Collection of Jill and Peter Kraus. © 2024 Christian Marclay. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery and White Cube. Installation view, White Cube Mason’s Yard, London, October 15 – November 13, 2010. Photo: Todd-White Photography