Can the stark and bare-bone sculptures of Alberto Giacometti reveal truths about our own times? Tony Dokoupil says, yes, they can: He pushed, prodded and gouged his masterpieces into existence. But ...

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 ...

October 10, 2015 would have been Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti’s 114th birthday, had he not fallen into the great existential void on January 11, 1966. The painter, sculptor, draughtsman and ...

Granted unparalleled access to the Giacometti Foundation in Paris, curators Frances Morris and Catherine Grenier have assembled a staggering 250 works, including ample material with which to explore ...

Giacometti sculpted emaciated, elongated bronze human figures that suggest a strong sense of alienation, even a risk of disappearance. These are the works for which he is best known and that have made ...

The artistic process is something that often eludes people. It’s not only the artist’s burning desire to create that can be confusing to people, it’s the commitment to research and the drive to keep ...

In black and white photographs, Alberto Giacometti looks like a sad Mick Jagger, his face deeply creased, his eyes dark under an unruly mop of curly hair. However humble he appeared, the artist burned ...

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 ...

Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Giacometti: skulpturer, malerier, tegninger, 1965, no. 5 Paris, Artcurial, Corps-Figures. La figuration humaine dans la ...

What is it about Alberto Giacometti? Earlier this week, only three months after a major Giacometti exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, Tate Modern announced that a full retrospective for the ...

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 ...

In black and white photographs, Alberto Giacometti looks like a sad Mick Jagger, his face deeply creased, his eyes dark under an unruly mop of curly hair. However humble he appeared, the artist burned ...