The phrase "someone's trash is someone's treasure" came true for one man who landed £48,000 after he stumbled upon a pair of extremely rare buttons that cost him just £40.

Antique stores may offer a trove of cheap treasures for anyone with a keen eye but they rarely turn up objects quite so undervalued as a rare chandelier by Alberto Giacometti, which caught the eye of ...

Can the stark and bare-bone sculptures of Alberto Giacometti reveal truths about our own times? Tony Dokoupil says, yes, they can: He pushed, prodded and gouged his masterpieces into existence. But ...

The buttons were made by Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti for Italian fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli in the 1930s.

October 10, 2015 would have been Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti’s 114th birthday, had he not fallen into the great existential void on January 11, 1966. The painter, sculptor, draughtsman and ...

Giacometti sculpted emaciated, elongated bronze human figures that suggest a strong sense of alienation, even a risk of disappearance. These are the works for which he is best known and that have made ...

Annette Messager installation “The Parade of the Squirrel for Annette” (2018) combining Annette Messager, “The Parade of the Squirrel” (1994) (left) and ...

In a photograph from 1930, an abstract bronze sculpture of two copulating figures hangs on the wall of a polished Parisian dining room. Published in the magazine Art et Industrie, it’s one of the few ...

Running from Wednesday through April 20, the “Into Eternity” exhibition showcases Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti, Spanish ...

What is it about Alberto Giacometti? Earlier this week, only three months after a major Giacometti exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, Tate Modern announced that a full retrospective for the ...

The difference between two similar looking paintings can be millions of dollars. Can you spot the most expensive ones from New York’s recent auction week? By Zachary Small and Josephine Sedgwick ...

Alberto Giacometti, “Head of Diego on ‘La Psychanalyse'” (n.d.), ink on book page; 8 7/8 x 5 1/2 inches (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) “What I am looking for is not happiness. I work ...