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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A revelation of the year so far in London has been the new space for art at the Barbican. A former restaurant there has been ...
Alberto Giacometti worked obsessively on super-slim sculptures that stride and slink like shadows. A Guggenheim exhibition and a new film explore... Giacometti's Sculptures Bare The Scars Of Our Daily ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...