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 ...

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 ...

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. Alberto ...

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 ...

Alberto Giacometti worked obsessively on super-slim sculptures that stride and slink like shadows. A Guggenheim exhibition and a new film explore... Giacometti's Sculptures Bare The Scars Of Our Daily ...

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 artist Joan Miro, and American innovator Alexander Calder. Featuring 47 ...

A lunch between colleagues is the main reason why the Vancouver Art Gallery has an exhibition of the work of Alberto Giacometti. About three years ago, Ghislaine Wood, the deputy director of 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 ...