Paris was not the artist’s only home. Increasingly, he returned to his birthplace in a secluded valley in the Swiss Alps ...
Antique stores may offer a trove of cheap treasures for anyone with a keen eye but they rarely turn up objects quite so undervalued as a rare chandelier by Alberto Giacometti, which caught the eye of ...
The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam has announced plans for a $11.5 million permanent sculpture garden to display more of its vast ...
Alberto Giacometti is considered one of the greatest artists of the 20th century — but he was consumed by self-doubt. He painted, drew and sculpted, and his sculptures made him famous. After the ...
In a photograph from 1930, an abstract bronze sculpture of two copulating figures hangs on the wall of a polished Parisian dining room. Published in the magazine Art et Industrie, it’s one of the few ...
Even if you do not know the name Alberto Giacometti, you’ll probably recognize his work immediately upon entering the huge new exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art that celebrates the late Swiss ...
A chandelier bought for just £250 ($300) from a London antique store has sold for more than 11,000 times that amount, fetching £2.92 million ($3.5 million) at a Christie’s auction in London on Tuesday ...
There are artists whose work is instantly recognizable. When one sees sculptures depicting human figures in slender, ...
“Flora,” a two-channel video projection by the Swiss American duo Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler, offers a melancholic true story of love and loss that is both surprising and somewhat confused.
The difference between two similar looking paintings can be millions of dollars. Can you spot the most expensive ones from New York’s recent auction week? By Zachary Small and Josephine Sedgwick ...