EXHIBITIONS BY YEAR
MoMA Staff
Director
Arthur Drexler
American, 1921–1987
Assistant Curator
Artists
New York Times Review of the exhibition
PUBLISHED
8 June 1955
About Art and Artists; Controversial Works of Giacometti to Be Shown Today at Guggenheim Museum
THE first comprehensive museum exhibition of sculpture, painting and drawing by Alberto Giacometti will open today to the public at the Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue. James Johnson Sweeney, director, has assembled forty-seven pieces of sculpture, twenty-four paintings and a score of drawings by this controversial sculptor, covering his production from 1925 to the present.
New York Times • page 24 • 633 words