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{{Short description|Art installation by Kristin Jones and Andrew Ginzel in New York City,
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'''''Metronome''''' is a large public [[installation art|art installation]] located along [[14th Street (Manhattan)|the south end]] of [[Union Square, Manhattan|Union Square]] in [[New York City]]. The work was commissioned by the [[The Related Companies|Related Companies]], developers of One Union Square South, with the participation of the [[Public Art Fund]] and the [[Municipal Art Society]]. The $4.2 million provided by the developer makes it one of the largest private commissions of public art.
The artwork was created by [[Jones/Ginzel|Kristin Jones and Andrew Ginzel]] and consists of several sections, including a round circular void from which puffs of
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== The clock ==
[[File:Union Square New York April 2016 3.JPG|thumb|left|upright=1.2|View from a distance]]
[[File:Metronome November 2020.jpg|thumb|right|View of ''Metronome'' in November 2020, after the clock display was modified to a [[Climate Clock|climate clock]]]]
On the left side of the work is a set of fifteen large [[LED]] digits, called "The Passage", which display the time in [[24-hour]] format. The seven leftmost digits show the time in conventional [[24-hour clock|24-hour format]], as hours (2 digits), minutes (2 digits), seconds (2 digits), tenths of a second (1 digit). The seven rightmost digits display the amount of time remaining in a 24-hour day, as tenths of a second (1 digit), seconds (2 digits), minutes (2 digits), hours (2 digits). The center digit represents hundredths of a second. For instance, if the clock reads "<
For a few months in 2005, the clock on ''Metronome'' did not give the time of day, but instead counted down the time until the [[International Olympic Committee]] was to announce the host city of the [[2012 Summer Olympics]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Kurutz|first=Steven|date=2005-05-01|title=For a Mysterious Clock, Method in Its Madness|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/01/nyregion/thecity/for-a-mysterious-clock-method-in-its-madness.html|access-date=2020-09-21|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> New York City ultimately lost [[New York City bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics|its bid to be host city to the 2012 Olympics]] to [[London]].
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The clock showed the wrong figures for over a year in 2010–2011 until, in June 2011, the dial-up connection it had previously used to obtain an [[atomic time]] reading was updated.<ref>[http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/13/in-union-square-15-numbers-add-up-once-again-to-time/ "In Union Square, 15 Numbers Add Up, Once Again, to Time" ''New York Times'' June 13 2011] Retrieved June 14, 2011</ref>
On September 19, 2020, ''Metronome'' became a [[Climate Clock|climate clock]] as it started showing the time remaining until the [[Earth]]'s [[carbon budget]] is used up as a result of concerns related to [[global warming]] above the 1.5°C threshold that was outlined in the [[Paris Agreement]]. The fifteen digits counted down the years (1 digit), days (3 digits), hours (2 digits), minutes (2 digits), and seconds (2 digits) from left to right, in conventional 24-hour format with spaces to the left of each digit. The modified display was devised by artists Andrew Boyd and Gan Golan.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Moynihan|first=Colin|date=2020-09-21|title=A New York Clock That Told Time Now Tells the Time Remaining|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/20/arts/design/climate-clock-metronome-nyc.html|access-date=2020-09-21|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Kraus|first=Rachel|date=2020-09-20|title=Famed NYC clock is counting down to Earth's climate change 'deadline'|url=https://mashable.com/article/climate-change-clock-nyc/|access-date=2020-09-21|website=Mashable}}</ref>
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Ultimately, the work is an ode to mortality and the impossibility of knowing time.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Kristin Jones |first=Andrew Ginzel |title=''Metronome'' Project Description |url=http://www.jonesginzel.com/PROJECTS/metronome/metronometxt.html |access-date=February 15, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081119135824/http://www.jonesginzel.com/PROJECTS/metronome/metronometxt.html |archive-date=November 19, 2008 }}</ref>}}
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File:Union Square Metronome detail (clock).jpg|''Metronome'' (detail – "The Passage")
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''Metronome'' and One Union Square, the building to which it is attached, have not been well received by critics or the public. Kristin Jones, co-creator of the work, complains that it is "the most unloved piece of public art in the city".<ref>''The New Yorker'', "Talk of the Town", July 4, 2005</ref> Among ''Metronome's'' critics are ''[[New York Times]]'' architecture critic [[Herbert Muschamp]], who described it as "Pretentious ... the artists' basic miscalculation was to assume that a large surface called for comparably big forms ... It's just some space in a box with a leaky hole in it."<ref>''[[New York Times]]'', "[https://www.nytimes.com/2000/01/02/arts/art-architecture-the-ominous-message-of-a-box-on-union-square.html?scp=8&sq=metronome&pagewanted=all The Ominous Message of a Box on Union Square]", Herbert Muschamp. January 2, 2000.</ref> The ''[[New York Post]]'' put One Union Square at #2 on its "10 Buildings We Love to Hate" list, calling it "a grotesque modern nightmare."<ref>''The New York Post'', "10 Buildings We Love to Hate", January 9, 2000</ref> James Gaynor of the ''[[New York Observer]]'' wrote of ''Metronome'', "Fail so big that no one can do anything about it ... New York now has its very own [[Wailing Wall]], a site (and sight) of cultural pilgrimage where the death of aesthetics can be contemplated."<ref>''[[New York Observer]]'', "[http://neptune.observer.com/node/42063?page=all Citizens Panic! Art Eats Building on Union Square!]{{dead link|date=March 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}", James Gaynor. October 11, 1999.</ref>
In various [[letters to the editor]], the public has written of ''Metronome'': "Well-intentioned, but ultimately flat, corporate art. It is a confounding installation based on a contrived theme ('the impossibility of knowing Time')";<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/11/nyregion/l-union-sq-art-wall-is-large-but-ultimately-just-flat-549606.html |title=Union Sq. Art Wall Is Large But, Ultimately, Just Flat – Letter |work=
== See also ==
* [[Debt clock]]
* [[Doomsday Clock]]
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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060516053119/http://metronome.related.com/ Developer's site dedicated to the work]
*[http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=20140 Google Answer's page with helpful information and links]
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