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The Correct Time - Exhibition Opening

  • Design Museum of Chicago 72 E Randolph Chicago, IL 60601 (map)

Join us as we celebrate the opening of our newest exhibition alongside many of the artists that contributed work.

Be sure to bring along a broken timepiece, as we continue to collect up to 1440 clocks, watches, and other curios, to expand the show.

Time is curious. We cannot see, touch, or taste it, yet we experience it through the motion of the sun, reverberation in music, and the changing of seasons. We measure time obsessively and make it visible through the design of clocks, which convey graphic and information design through form, color, shape, lines, and typography. Clocks also demonstrate personality, foster innovation, and can even highlight power dynamics. Another curious thing about time is that it only moves in one direction, forward. This exhibition serves as a reminder that despite our differences, time is one of the things that unites us all.

The Correct Time expands upon an artwork initiated in 1989 by Barbara Koenen collecting 720 donated broken clocks, one for each minute in 12 hours because even a broken clock is right twice a day!

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Meet some of the artists that contributed to the exhibition:

Jerald Aguilar, Emma Arnold, Chris Froeter, Barbara Koenen, Kiyomi Negi-Tran, Bud Rodecker, Steven Ryan, Alfred C. Sanft, Curt Schreiber, David Sieren, Emi Tolibas, Tanner Woodford, and more.