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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In late 2021, Sotheby’s held one of the highest-grossing auctions in its history. The star lot of the $922 million sale, featured on the catalogue’s cover, was Alberto Giacometti’s 1949 sculpture Le ...

A new museum in the Gare des Invalides in Paris will house the Giacometti collection from 2026. Alberto Giacometti was one of the most respected and influential sculptors of the 20th century. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Giacometti Museum and School will open in 2028 with a vast collection of masterpieces, many of which have never been exhibited ...

“Sculpter le Vide” at Museum Cantini marks the first major Alberto Giacometti exhibition in Marseille, drawing inspiration from Jean-Paul Sartre’s view of the artist as a sculptor of emptiness and ...