Francis Alÿs is best known for his films, installations, and performances called paseos in which he wanders through urban streets. For the past three decades, however, the Mexico City-based, ...

Before the excitement of Art Basel, Zurich takes the lead. For three days, the Swiss city transforms into a living laboratory of contemporary art: streets, museums, galleries, and alternative spaces ...

Francis Alÿs: A Story of Deception, on view at The Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1 beginning May 8, draws upon MoMA's unique and important collection of work by artist Francis Alÿs (Belgian, b. 1959 ...

This untitled painting by Belgian artist Francis Alÿs measures just five by seven inches, but its tininess did not hurt its market potential at a recent contemporary art day sale at Sotheby’s in ...

What does it take to run into a tornado? Forget for a minute why you’d want to or how to find one or whether you’d survive. How do you get the courage? “It’s like a surfer catching a wave,” Francis ...

On Sept. 5, 2001, the ruling Taliban militia raided the Afghanistan National Film Archive in Kabul and burned much of its contents in a fire that lasted two weeks. Most of the destroyed films were ...

Francis Alÿs is running across a field, chasing a tornado that whirls and whips and plumes into the clear Mexican sky. It is a small tornado, it must be said, but big enough to engulf trees, and any ...

It wasn’t just the rarity of an overseas artist’s visit amid the coronavirus pandemic that made Francis Alÿs’ arrival so hotly anticipated in Hong Kong. His three decades of making humanist, absurdist ...

International art star Francis Alÿs once tried to build a floating bridge that would symbolically link Cuba and the United States. It was a frustrating exercise. In 2006, he assembled local fleets in ...

The sprawling, brawling metropolis of cliché does Mexico City scant justice. The poet Pablo Neruda called it 'the touchstone of America', while the artist Francis Alÿs revels in a city that has ...