Christian Marclay

The best art of the 21st century

Steve McQueen in bed, Ai Weiwei in trouble, Pussy Riot in church and Ragnar Kjartansson in the bath – they’re all included in our countdown of the best art since 2000

Adrian Searle, Jonathan Jones, Sean O’Hagan and Hettie Judah

17, Sep, 2019 @5:00 AM

The Clock comes to Melbourne: what the 24-hour concept film can do to your brain

Now playing at Acmi, the world’s most popular piece of concept art, by Christian Marclay, inspires thoughts of cities, community and death

Luke Buckmaster

04, Feb, 2019 @2:26 AM

Doing time: what I learned from 24 hours watching The Clock

Christian Marclay’s film at Tate Modern knits together thousands of clips in an era-defining artwork. And I viewed the whole thing

Ari Haque

29, Nov, 2018 @9:00 AM

The Clock review – 'The longer you watch it, the more addictive it becomes'

Christian Marclay’s epic work – a clock created from film clips that tells the actual time – ought to be bleak. But time really does fly when you watch this 24-hour miracle

Jonathan Jones

11, Sep, 2018 @8:00 AM

'It's impossible!' – Christian Marclay and the 24-hour clock made of movie clips

From the clock in High Noon to the watch in Pulp Fiction, the US artist turned thousands of film clips into a 24-hour epic that tells the actual time. As the cult work returns to London, the place of its birth, he relives three years of toil

Peter Bradshaw

10, Sep, 2018 @5:00 AM

Tacita Dean and Jenny Saville lead strong female presence at Edinburgh art festival

Phyllida Barlow, Lucy Skaer and Victoria Crowe also feature in the lineup alongside old masters including Canaletto and Rembrandt

Dale Berning Sawa

25, Mar, 2018 @11:01 PM

Christian Marclay's best photograph – the San Francisco firecrackers with the perfect name

‘I’ve got Psssst! hairspray and Vroom car keys. So when I saw these firecrackers in San Francisco I had to photograph them’

Interview by Ben Beaumont-Thomas

06, Oct, 2016 @7:00 AM

Laura Cumming: the best art of 2015

It was a wonderful year, as Goya’s extraordinary portraits got together, Ai Weiwei broke free and Eric Ravilious took us to the skies

Laura Cumming

13, Dec, 2015 @9:30 AM

Punks and pub crawls – the week in art

Jonathan Jones: A show about youth subcultures takes over the Photographers’ Gallery’s new space, while Christian Marclay’s inebriated action paintings hit London. Plus, the gif art you can see from space, and how much sponsorship money BP paid Tate

Jonathan Jones

30, Jan, 2015 @2:26 PM

Nástio Mosquito, Ruth Ewan, James Rigler: this week’s new exhibitions

From Nástio Mosquito’s multimedia persona-building in Birmingham to James Rigler’s experimental ceramics in Glasgow, find out what’s happening in art around the country

Robert Clark & Skye Sherwin

30, Jan, 2015 @6:00 AM

Christian Marclay: let’s get messed up

How do you follow up a worldwide art phenomenon? If you’re Christian Marclay, you go on a booze-fuelled paint-splurging bender. Adrian Searle gets drunk on his dizzying new show

Adrian Searle

28, Jan, 2015 @6:44 PM

Woman's Hour, Fuck Buttons, Chet Faker: this week's new live music

Jennifer Lucy Allan, Andrew Clements, John Fordham & John Robinson

19, Apr, 2014 @5:00 AM

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