In this study of American art, time and motion are fragmented, mechanized, slowed down and sped up so that the last century flies by. Works range from Joseph Stella's Battle of Lights, Coney Island (1915-18) to Shirley Shor's real-time projection Landslide (2004).

Text by Jacquelynn Baas, Lucinda Barnes. Karen L. Bennett, Bill Berkson, Linda Dalrymple Henderson, Maria Porges, Lawrence R. Rinder.