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The Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami hosts a presentation of paintings by Francis Alÿs based on three important multi-panel works in the museum’s permanent collection.

The artist’s “Sign Painting Project” series (1993–97), one of his first important bodies of work, involves his close collaboration with three commercial sign makers in Mexico City who copied, enlarged, or otherwise interpreted his original paintings. Alÿs in turn made new versions of his paintings based on these interpretations, calling into question the final works’ authorship and value. This body of work is typical to …