The Clock (Installation)

Marclay, Christian. The Clock. Installation at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Viewed 28 July 2026.

From the LACMA website:[1]

Returning to Los Angeles for the first time since 2015, Christian Marclay’s The Clock is a 24-hour single-channel montage constructed from thousands of moments of cinema and television history depicting the passage of time, excerpted and edited together to create a functioning timepiece synchronized to local time wherever it is shown. The result marks the exact time for the viewer for 24 consecutive hours, weaving together Marclay’s interests in collage and found visual and aural artifacts with his roots in live performance.

See for brief clip after brief clip after brief clip showing various timepieces, adding up to an epitome of The Clock in the history of cinema and television images, especially as seen in Los Angeles, a city intimately connected with film and TV.

RDE, with thanks to June Hee Chung and Joseph Kuhr, 29Jul2026