April 7, 2014 | Read Time: 1 minute
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is using photo slide shows and video interviews with artists and curators to spotlight new works of art in its collection.
Each month the MetCollects web series will feature a work added to the museum as a gift or by purchase.
In the first episode, the South African artist William Kentridge discusses his multimedia installation “The Refusal of Time,” which the museum owns jointly with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
“One of the things the artist does is take things we know but can’t see and make them visible,” he says as the video shows the piece in motion—with the tick-tock of giant metronomes, film running forward and backward, and a wooden “breathing machine” that expands and contracts. “So the idea of time, which is this completely vague, invisible concept, there are ways of making it very visible.”
