Rebecca Rabinow

Rebecca Rabinow has been the Director of the Menil Collection, Houston, since 2016. Previously she worked as a curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she created and led the Leonard A. Lauder Center for Modern Art.

This film has made me wonder what makes quarters of the hour so special. Numbers that end in 00, 15, 30, or 45 get all the glory. My meetings all start or end at those times. So do weddings, funerals, concerts, and haircuts. Watching the film, I was struck by the ringing of chimes and bells every fifteen minutes and also by how many audience members waited until these intervals to leave.

Christian Marclay, The Clock (detail), 2010. Single-channel video with sound, 24 hours. © Christian Marclay. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York.

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