Alberto Giacometti
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Works by Warhol, Rothko and Pollock sold in most valuable auction ever held at Sotheby’s
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‘I’d just been to a Giacometti show and was feeling inspired. I went out on to Tate Modern’s balcony – and everything aligned’
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She immortalised street kids and sculptors with an eye to rival Cartier-Bresson. As the Pompidou holds a retrospective, the 93-year-old veteran of street photography praises the power of the ‘instant picture’
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More than 300 sculptures and many ‘debut’ artworks to go on show in Montparnasse exhibition centre opening in June
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The inventor of modern art caps an amazing year of drawings by old masters, vast 20th-century retrospectives and the return of the YBAs
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Australian actor plays one of 20th century’s greatest sculptors in British film made with close involvement of artist’s estate
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The National Portrait Gallery’s new show surveys the history of old master portraiture, with some surprising insights into the emotional connection between sitter and artist
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4 out of 5 stars.Fight your way through the spindly hordes at this huge, overcrowded Giacometti show and you’ll find a tender, protean artist who is still uniquely strange
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5 out of 5 stars.In the 1930s, his dildos and violent bronzes marked him as a nightmarish surrealist. Then war transformed Alberto Giacometti, and his art, forever
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Tate Modern’s major retrospective of Alberto Giacometti opens this week, while Bruce Conner’s early video art is resurrected – all in your weekly dispatch
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Track the evolution of the Swiss visionary’s art, explore the worst humanitarian crisis of our time and take in the pioneering ecologist’s landscapes
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He drank with Sartre, mocked Picasso and took silent walks with Beckett – but his work was going nowhere until a vision on Boulevard Montparnasse left him trembling. Ahead of a major Tate show, we explore the obsessions of Giacometti
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Gathering of six sculptures for first time since they were made in 1956 will be highlight of retrospective for Swiss artist
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The Turner shortlist recognises the skill and significance of modern sculptors. Why do they need another prize? The director of the Hepworth Wakefield explains
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McDonalds mixes with Soviet-style art, Damien Hirst’s leaky vitrines, and Pompeii’s bungled facelift – all in your weekly art dispatch
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