The sculpture and paintings of Alberto Giacometti long have inspired a kind of writing that indulges in philosophical rhetoric at considerable expense to the art. Michel Leiris was the first to embark ...

The author and art historian Michael Peppiatt is candid about his art passions: in 2015, he published a frank memoir that focused on his friendship with Francis Bacon (Francis Bacon in Your Blood). In ...

Alberto Giacometti is considered one of the greatest artists of the 20th century — but he was consumed by self-doubt. He painted, drew and sculpted, and his sculptures made him famous. After the ...

“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 lesson in ...

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