What’s Going on With the Met’s Odd New Giacometti Show?
Ben Davis | Artnet | 15th June 2026
Giacometti was interested in simplified sculptural forms and liked the Egyptian sculptures he saw in Europe’s museums. He was also inspired, perhaps even more so – by the elongated figures in some tribal African carvings. A show that exhibits his gaunt, spectral figures around an ancient Egyptian temple thus connects loosely with his back story. But so what? Curators are having fun mixing old and new objects but where is the narrative? “It is kind of a half-show, with a half-premise”.