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Art
Francis Alÿs

When

Sep 20, 2007 – Apr 8

Tuesdays–Saturdays (10am–4pm)

Sundays (1–4pm)

Where
Hispanic Society of America (613 W 155th St, 212.926.2234)
Price
FREE
Details
http://www.diacenter.org/exhibs_h/alys/
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While Dia searches for a new home, the arts org has teamed up with Washington Heights' Hispanic Society on a three-year collaboration. The first showcase is of Francis Alÿs, a Belgium-born transplant to Mexico City known for monumental projects — including pushing a block of ice through the streets until it melted, marking the Green Line (between Israel and Palestine) with a leaking can of paint, and moving a mountain. Here, Alÿs displays nearly 300 reproductions of a now-lost 19th-century painting by French artist Jean-Jacques Henner depicting a fourth-century hospital builder, St. Fabiola. Collected by Alÿs on visits to flea markets and antique shops around the globe, the replicas are a tribute to a great work of art we'll never know.

H.G. Masters