William Kentridge
Philip Miller, Composer
Catherine Meyburgh, Video Editor
Peter Galison, Dramaturge
The Refusal of Time, 2012

Artwork Info

Artwork title: The Refusal of Time
Artist names: William Kentridge, Philip Miller, Catherine Meyburgh, Peter Galison
Date created: 2012
Classification: video installation
Medium: five-channel video with sound, 30 min., with steel megaphones and breathing machine "elephant"
Dimensions: dimensions variable

Date acquired: 2013
Credit: Collection SFMOMA
Jointly owned by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (purchase, by exchange, through an anonymous gift and the K. Hart Smith Trust) and The Metropolitan Museum of Art (purchased with Roy R. and Marie S. Neuberger Foundation Inc. and Wendy Fisher Gifts and The Raymond and Beverly Sackler 21st Century Art Fund)
Copyright: © 2012 William Kentridge. All rights reserved.
Permanent URL: https://www.sfmoma.org/artwork/2013.250.1-3
Artwork status: Not on view at this time.

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