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Alberto Giacometti

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What Giacometti Learned From de Sade

Avatar photo by Tim Keane January 18, 2020February 10, 2020

Prompted by his friend André Breton, Alberto Giacometti first read de Sade in 1933, and his studio notes ruminated on seduction, idolatry, and fetishism.

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A Wily French Artist Refreshes and Reinvigorates Giacometti

by Joseph Nechvatal December 17, 2018December 17, 2018

Our Rooms, a small but striking cross-gender and cross-generational show, successfully pairs Annette Messager’s work with Alberto Giacometti’s at the new, intimate Giacometti Institute.

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Fixating on Giacometti’s Doomed Woman

by Barry Nemett September 1, 2018August 31, 2018

Who is this nameless woman whose first (and last) breaths were drawn nearly 90 years ago?

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Giacometti and Fears of Emasculation

Avatar photo by Zachary Small August 28, 2018August 27, 2018

A retrospective at the Guggenheim presents Giacometti as one of art history’s great vanishers of women.

Alberto Giacometti, "Man Pointing" (1947), bronze, 178 x 95 x 52 cm, Tate (© Alberto Giacometti Estate, ACS/DACS, 2017)
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Seeing Beyond Alberto Giacometti’s Bronzes

Avatar photo by Olivia McEwan July 12, 2017July 11, 2017

Tate Modern’s retrospective of the Swiss sculptor, which gathers some 250 pieces, highlights his multi-pronged process and sustained work in plaster, wood, terracotta, oil paint, and more.

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Now and Then: The Rediscovery of Flora Mayo

Avatar photo by Gregory Volk June 3, 2017June 2, 2017

If I could, I would give this layered, richly human (and often tear-inducing) work my own private Golden Lion, inventing a new category: Best and Most Meaningful Work in the Exhibition.

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Happy Public Domain Day! From Stieglitz to Severini, 12 Artists Whose Work Is Now Copyright-Free

Avatar photo by Allison Meier January 1, 2017January 3, 2017

January 1 was Public Domain Day — here’s a look at artists whose work is leaving copyright behind this year (although not in the United States).

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Bodies at War: ‘Soldier, Spectre, Shaman’ at MoMA

Avatar photo by Thomas Micchelli November 7, 2015November 17, 2015

World War II signaled the death of figurative art, or so the High Modernist narrative once contended.

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The Pompidou’s Permanent Collection, Reinstalled Along the Lines of Art Theory

by Joseph Nechvatal October 30, 2015November 3, 2015

PARIS — Where the newness of art comes from (when it comes) is something of a conundrum.

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Crimes of the Art

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton May 12, 2015

On this week’s art crime blotter: Jonathan Meese acquitted in Nazi salute dispute, Picasso works disappear in transit, and Charles Saatchi sues Saatchi Art for Saatchi name.

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Afterlives of Mesopotamian Artifacts, from Flapper Fashion to de Kooning

Avatar photo by Allison Meier March 9, 2015March 12, 2015

After excavation, ancient artifacts embark on an afterlife of interpretation. From Ancient to Modern explores how the archaeology of Mesopotamia reflected fashions and academia of the 1920s and 30s, and influenced contemporary art.

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The Pursuit of Art, 2014

Avatar photo by Thomas Micchelli December 27, 2014December 30, 2014

The exhibitions that rippled through our cultural fabric over the past year, at least those occurring in and around New York, have registered the predictable number of highs and lows, though 2014 did manage to plumb one nadir unlikely to be matched for a good long time.

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