Exhibition. Through May 11. Encapsulating 100 years of moving-image history, Christian Marclay’s The Clock (2010) is a 24-hour montage composed from thousands of film and television clips depicting clocks and other references to time. James Bond checks his watch at 12:20 a.m.; Meryl Streep turns off an alarm clock at 6:30 a.m.; a pocket watch ticks at 11:53 a.m. as the …

Karl Blossfeldt is best known for his precise photographs of plants; however, he began his career as a sculptor, completing apprenticeships at the ironworks and foundry in Mägdesprung and the Kunstgewerbeschule (Institute of the royal arts museum) in Berlin from 1884 to 1890.From 1890 to 1896 he traveled through Italy, Greece, and North Africa, working for Moritz Meurer, who …

American, born 1954. Introduction Cynthia Morris Sherman (born January 19, 1954) is an American artist whose work consists primarily of photographic self-portraits, depicting herself in many different contexts and as various imagined characters.

Director, Glenn Lowry: On November 30, 1975, Marina Abramović met Uwe Laysiepen, an artist known as Ulay.As fate would have it, the two of them shared the same birthday. Artist, Marina Abramović: I was invited to come to Amsterdam for the television program on body art.. I was one of the first East European artists doing body art.

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A vital part of New York’s avant-garde art scene from the late 1950s to the early 1970s, Yayoi Kusama developed a distinctive style utilizing approaches associated with Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism, Pop art, Feminist art, and Institutional Critique—but she always defined herself in her own terms.

In 1914, Claude Monet began again. The French artist, whose brightly colored and sketchily rendered landscapes galvanized the Impressionists in the 1870s, had painted infrequently since the death of his wife, Alice Hoschedé Monet, in 1911. But following several years of mourning, he embarked on a new project that would occupy him until his death in 1926: large-scale …

Introduction Vincent Willem van Gogh (Dutch: [ˈvɪnsɛnt ˈʋɪləɱ vɑŋ ˈɣɔx] ; 30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art.

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