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'Click, click, click, I never wait': the everyday genius of Sabine Weiss

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’

Published: 3 Jul 2018

Institute dedicated to Giacometti set up near artist's Parisian studio

More than 300 sculptures and many ‘debut’ artworks to go on show in Montparnasse exhibition centre opening in June

Published: 19 Mar 2018

Best culture 2017 Jonathan Jones's top 10 art exhibitions of 2017

The inventor of modern art caps an amazing year of drawings by old masters, vast 20th-century retrospectives and the return of the YBAs

Published: 13 Dec 2017

3 out of 5 stars.

Final Portrait review – lopsided Giacometti biopic
3 out of 5 stars.

Published: 20 Aug 2017

Geoffrey Rush adds Alberto Giacometti to his roster of troubled artists

Australian actor plays one of 20th century’s greatest sculptors in British film made with close involvement of artist’s estate

Published: 29 Jul 2017
The most intimate moments in art – portrait painters and their subjects laid bare on film and in exhibition

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

Published: 8 Jul 2017

4 out of 5 stars.

Giacometti review – master of all things thin
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

Published: 21 May 2017
5 out of 5 stars.

Giacometti review – a spectacular hymn to human survival
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

Published: 8 May 2017
Art Weekly Giacometti, Thunderbirds and a fish-and-chip shop – the week in art

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

Published: 5 May 2017
Five of the best… new art shows Giacometti, Syria and Richard Long: this week’s best UK exhibitions

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

Published: 5 May 2017

On the edge of madness: the terrors and genius of Alberto Giacometti

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

Published: 21 Apr 2017

Tate Modern to reunite Giacometti's plaster Women of Venice

Gathering of six sculptures for first time since they were made in 1956 will be highlight of retrospective for Swiss artist

Published: 23 Jan 2017

Object lessons at the Hepworth Wakefield: the importance of sculpture

The Turner shortlist recognises the skill and significance of modern sculptors. Why do they need another prize? The director of the Hepworth Wakefield explains

Published: 22 Oct 2016

Art Weekly Golden loos at the Guggenheim and Dalí's diary – the week in art

McDonalds mixes with Soviet-style art, Damien Hirst’s leaky vitrines, and Pompeii’s bungled facelift – all in your weekly art dispatch

Published: 22 Apr 2016
A brush with greatness The day I was drawn by Alberto Giacometti

The Swiss artist was on an endless search for perfection and created beautiful pieces that he was never happy with

Published: 17 Apr 2016

‘Saving’ art for the nation merely disguises the poverty of our museums

Jonathan Jones

The idea that by slapping a temporary export ban on Alberto Giacometti’s sculpture the culture minister is doing anything for art is a gross hypocrisy

Published: 26 Feb 2016

Published: 26 Feb 2016
Alberto Giacometti sculpture barred from leaving UK

Culture minister blocks export of Femme, an influential work sold to a foreign buyer, in hope that a Briton will find £2m to buy it

Published: 25 Feb 2016

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