What’s Going on With the Met’s Odd New Giacometti Show?
Artnet reviewed the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition “Giacometti in the Temple of Dendur,” which places a group of Alberto Giacometti’s female figures (in plaster and bronze) around the museum’s Temple of Dendur. The show includes loans largely from the Fondation Giacometti and features an early headless black sculpture from 1932 installed inside the temple, along with a spindly Giacometti cat positioned as a surprising detail on a stepped wall. The article argues the exhibition’s premise—linking Giacometti (1901–66) to Egyptian art—is intentionally light and spectacle-adjacent, suggesting a curatorial attitude of experimentation while the Met’s Tang Wing for Modern and Contemporary Art is under construction. The Met told Artnet that this show’s approach will help inform future displays in the new Tang Wing.
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