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 ...

Born in a mountain village in Switzerland northeast of Milan, Italy, and a few miles north of the Italian border, Giacometti was the first son of the important late 19th- and early 20th-century ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A rich look at a post-colonial art explosion' - 3/5 This expansive exhibition at Tate Modern brings together over 50 artists ...

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

Tate Modern’s retrospective of the Swiss sculptor, which gathers some 250 pieces, highlights his multi-pronged process and sustained work in plaster, wood, terracotta, oil paint, and more. Granted ...

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 ...

In recent years, Tate Modern has repositioned itself so radically – challenging the Western canon of dead white males, by championing women and artists from non-white, ethnic backgrounds – that its ...

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 ...