Francis Alÿs to Receive $100,000 after Winning One of the World’s Biggest Art Prizes
His Belgian Pavilion was one of the most praised offerings at the current Venice Biennale.
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Mountains and Glue: “Assembly Required” at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation
An exhibition of participatory art suggests that viewers step up to the work (or at times step on it), but flattens the context that gives such gestures meaning.
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Francis Alÿs, Artist with a Timely Interest in Borders, Will Represent Belgium at 2022 Venice Biennale
Alÿs previously represented Iraq at the 2017 Venice Biennale.
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Stepping Forward, Stepping Backward: 12th Shanghai Biennale Examines a World in Turmoil
Through March 10 at Power Station of Art
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Francis Alÿs Wins 2018 EYE Art & Film Prize
The $35,000 award goes annually to an artist working with moving images.
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Without Walls: From the Frigid Arctic to Ethiopia’s Blistering Afar Triangle, Artists Test Their Muscle and Mettle
A look at how artists use travel in their work.
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Preview Frieze London 2014
The big moment has almost arrived. The 12th edition of Frieze London opens to the general public on October 15 in Regent’s Park, and a day earlier for invited guests. Some 60,000 people will…
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Francis Alÿs: Architect of the Absurd
Francis Alÿs mixes the poetic and the political in his witty, Sisyphean performances and in sculptures, drawings, and other works that relate to them
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Among the many small painted works appearing in Francis Alÿs's recent solo show was an untitled piece composed of six 5-by-7-inch oil paintings.
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As amply demonstrated in this survey, Francis Alÿs has an eye for wandering. In the 1997 video projection that introduced “Francis Alÿs: A Story of Deception” at MoMA, he pushes a big block of ice t…
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