And what was the hottest piece up for sale this Auction Week? Kelly Crow: So heading into last week, all eyes were on this Alberto Giacometti sculpture, a bronze bust of the artist's younger brother, ...

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 art market wasn’t head over heels for Alberto Giacometti, the Swiss-Italian sculptor whose spindly bronze bust of his younger brother Diego was expected to be the priciest piece of New York ...

the first in a three-part collaboration with the Giacometti Foundation that sees work from Alberto Giacometti paired with contemporary artists in the centre’s new gallery space. The first exhibition ...

In the Barbican’s new, light-filled gallery, the City of London skyline provides a fitting backdrop for the tall, wiry works of Alberto Giacometti beside the hybrid, fragmented figures of ...

Over 10,000 works by one of the world's greatest sculptors will be housed in the unique location. View on euronews ...

blue-chip Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti (1901-66). The series launches on 8 May with an exhibition by Bhabha, followed by Hatoum (4 September) and Benglis in February 2026. “Each artist will ...

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 ...

Michael Peppiatt narrowly missed meeting Alberto Giacometti. As a young writer, he’d arrived in Paris in the winter of 1966 with a letter of introduction from their mutual friend Francis Bacon.

And, beyond this, he excels in his descriptions of Giacometti’s brutal working routine. “Alberto worked in an unending flux”, he writes, “making and unmaking at lightning speed, so that he might make ...

In his new publication, Giacometti in Paris: A Life, he shines the spotlight on another of his heroes, the Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti, setting his life and work against the backdrop of ...

“The Encounter: Barbara Chase-Riboud/Alberto Giacometti” (at MOMA, through Oct. 9) is a superb assembly of works by the virtuoso sculptors, whose connection is presented here as an object ...