Gagosian Gallery (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
November 8 - December 13, 2008 Madison Avenue Gallery
New York Post (Free subscription) | 12/08/2008
Someone likely once paid a king's ransom for the Alberto Giacometti bust found in the home of a late, eccentric Manhattan dealer in 2006. Now, if the FBI only knew who. Investigators yesterday put photos of the estimated $1 million stolen bust...
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 11/08/2008
More than 300 works of art — paintings, sketches, sculptures, and other pieces by such artists as Pablo Picasso, John Singleton Copley, Alberto Giacometti, Giorgio Morandi, and Eugene Boudin — were discovered in a New York City apartment after the occupant's death, according to the FBI.
TaxProf Blog (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008
Wall Street Journal: A Portrait of Art as a Tax Deduction, by Mike Spector: Jon and Mary Shirley used to give artwork by the likes of Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Alberto Giacometti to the Seattle Art Museum. No longer....
Vulture (Free subscription) | 12/06/2008
Photo illustration: iStockphoto There was once a time in America when you could safely assume that "artists" were famous people who lived far away, on vineyards in California or in hovels in the West Village. Sure, Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol and Antoine de St. Exupéry and Alberto Giacometti were scary, but the chances of running into them on the street were close to nil — they traveled in artistic...
GenevaLunch (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
New York, NY, USA (GenevaLunch) - "Portrait of Caroline," a monotones painting by Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti, was sold at...
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Art records fell on Tuesday for works by Claude Monet, Auguste Rodin and Alberto Giacometti in New York City at a Christie's auction dominated by foreign buyers taking advantage of the weak U.S. dollar.
Chanel News Asia (Free subscription) | 30/04/2008
SINGAPORE: For the first time in Singapore and Southeast Asia, art fans can get up close with the works of renowned Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti. The Singapore Art Museum has launched an exhibition showcasing a wide variety of work by the 20th century artist.
Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 17/04/2008
NEW YORK CITY - Sotheby’s evening sale of Impressionist and Modern Art on May 7, 2008 in New York will present a superb offering of key works by many of the leading artists of the period: Pablo Picasso, Edvard Munch, Fernand Léger, Alberto Giacometti, Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Joan Miró and others. The sale of 53 lots is estimated to bring $207 / 284 million. Prior to the exhibition and sale in New...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 23/03/2008
Art: Alberto Giacometti's fragile, stick-like figures are well known and much copied but, as these sculptures, paintings and drawings show, they still vibrate with a feverish, existential anxiety
The Independent (Free subscription) | 17/03/2008
How small is beautiful? One of the legends of modern art concerns the journey that Alberto Giacometti took, by night train, from Geneva to Paris, at the end of the Second World War – or, rather, not his journey so much as his luggage. He carried with him all of his recent work, contained in six matchboxes.
Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 27/02/2008
Zurich, Switzerland -In the exhibition of around 30 photographs, ArteF Fine Art Photography Gallery present portraits of famous artists and other celebrities, for example Jean Arp, Max Ernst, Alberto Giacometti, Roy Lichtenstein, Piet Mondrian, Pablo Picasso, Ed Ruscha, Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz as well as I.M. Pei, Marilyn Monroe, and Bill Clinton. For example, we see Igor Stravinsky...
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
Massive exhibition at Centre Pompidou recreates sculptor's space – walls and all.
Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE (Free subscription) | 30/12/2007
Cities across Europe are to host a range of exceptional exhibitions in the new year. Artists will include Man Ray, Gerhard Richter, Alberto Giacometti and Paul Cezanne, among many others.
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 12/12/2007
Janice and Henri Lazarof have given the museum 130 works by major artists, LACMA officials said this week. The gift includes 20 works by Pablo Picasso spanning 65 years, seven figurative sculptures and a painting by Alberto Giacometti, and two versions of Constantin Brancusi's signature bronze, "Bird in Space."...
