Francis Alÿs: Children's Games

$29.50 at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

by Francis Alys (Artist), Lorna Scott Fox (Contributor), Cuauhtémoc Medina (Contributor), Luis Pérez Oramas (Contributor) Since 1999, Belgian multimedia artist Francis Alÿs (born 1959) has been producing videos that document the games that children play on the street and in courtyards around the world. Children’s Games is an ongoing archive of the urban practices that modernity has banished from everyday life, as the concepts of public space and free time have grown increasingly distorted by the domination of…