ARTery: 'The Refusal of Time'

The focus of this week's ARTery segment is a fascinating installation at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston by the South African artist, William Kentridge. It's called The Refusal of Time, and it's a multimedia film installation that immerses you in a dizzying collage of drawing, design, music, spoken word and dance. Kentridge asks us to think about time — linear time, time as a force of tyranny, and how control of time was used as a tool of colonial domination.

The Refusal of Time is on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston through May 4th.

Sebastian Smee, Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic for The Boston Globe.