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Art and Media Temporalities: Speed, Slowness, and “Capturing” Time

Art and Media Temporalities: Speed, Slowness, and “Capturing” Time

All art and media are entwined with the passage of time. An artist passes time making their work. That work is tied to a specific moment in time, and then passes through time to reach us. Discover how temporality, or our understanding and experience of time and its passage, can help us better understand art, culture, and history.

Collection Highlights
Lament
Robert Kipniss
1981
All Souls College Chapel, Oxford
William Henry Fox Talbot
circa 1840s
A. Lincoln
Thomas Nast
circa 1865
Commuter's Time Table
Constantin Alajalov
1949