Art That Takes Its Time by PenningtonJ

What filmmaker, originally known as a commercial and visual artist, made a series of lengthy "anti-films" in the mid-1960s, including Sleep (a 5-hour static shot of the poet John Giorno sleeping) and Empire (an 8-hour static shot of the Empire State Building)?

What French composer and mentor to Les Six wrote the work "Vexations," which includes instructions to repeat a short piano theme 840 times in succession, thereby making it the longest piano piece ever performed?

What 1985 documentary, directed by Claude Lanzmann and lasting over 9 hours, includes location shots of concentration camps and hidden camera interviews with Nazi collaborators but absolutely no archival footage from World War II?

What Catalonian architect took control over the construction of the Basilica and Expiatory Church of the Holy Family (seen below) in 1883, but which is not expected to be completed until the 100th anniversary of his death in 2026?

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The longest opera in the standard classical repertory is a 6-hour work whose title refers to the Meistersingers of what European city?

"The opera ain't over until the fat lady sings" is an allusion to the final aria of Brünnhilde burning herself to death on a funeral pyre at the end of what fourth and final installment in Richard Wagner's operatic Ring Cycle?

What outsider artist and subject of the documentary In the Realms of the Unreal spent over 40 years writing and illustrating an over 15,000-page novel titled The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion (seen below)?

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What 1924 silent film, based on the Frank Norris novel McTeague, was originally over 8 hours long until producer Irving Thalberg seized the print and edited it down to 2 1/2 hours against the wishes of its director, Erich von Stroheim?

This monument (seen below), first begun by sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski in 1948 and which is still decades away from completion, is named after what historical figure?

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What video installation, by the artist Christian Marclay (excerpted below), consists of a DVD of found footage synched by a computer, which requires exactly 24 hours to be viewed in it entirety?

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In the Monty Python "Summarize Proust" sketch, none of the contestants were able to get past what first novel in Marcel Proust's seven-volume series, Remembrance of Things Past?

According to the Guinness World Book of Records, the longest performance of a play ever staged was a 23-hour performance of what absurdist play, the first work by playwright Eugene Ionesco?