There was another side to the artist who was a key figure of the international avant-garde: affectionate portraits and landscapes that were an ode to his rural Swiss roots ...

The exhibition, curated by Giacometti authority Tobia Bezzola, is a neat encapsulation of the artist’s work that foregrounds ...

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 ...

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 ...

During one three-year period of creative output, Alberto Giacometti was able to fit every piece that he had made into six matchboxes, which he then carried in his pocket. Many of his plaster figures ...

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 ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Public tickets for the Cleveland Museum of Art’s big spring exhibition on the work of Alberto Giacometti, famous for images of elongated, emaciated figures that embodied mid-century ...

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. In the early 1930s, before he turned to the attenuated heads and acid ...

Paris was not the artist’s only home. Increasingly, he returned to his birthplace in a secluded valley in the Swiss Alps ...