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 ...

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 ...

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

Alberto Giacometti fever is coming to London. The Barbican Centre has announced three “groundbreaking” exhibitions in collaboration with Fondation Giacometti, to take place between May 2025 and May ...

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 ...

The 1955 merger of Chase National Bank and the Bank of Manhattan was a mighty financial move, backed up by a grand architectural one. For its Financial District headquarters, the company placed a ...

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 ...

While standing before one of several stunning arrays of Giacometti’s sculpted figures, lined up like sentries in the Cleveland Museum of Art’s “Alberto Giacometti: Toward the Ultimate Figure,” I ...

Sotheby’s high-stakes auction turned into a jaw-dropping spectacle Tuesday night when a $70 million Alberto Giacometti bronze bust failed to sell, leaving bidders and art insiders gobsmacked. The ...