Alberto Giacometti: Museum of Modern art, New York.

For those who have never been to the Giacometti Foundations in either Zurich or Basel, the current retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art is filled with riches: Many of the plaster works never translated into wood or bronze, nor ever seen outside Switzerland because of their extreme fragility, are now assembled within the Modern's walls.

By insisting on these works, which are shown in force, the exhibition seems intent on righting the wrong done so consistently to Giacometti when scholars and critics extract the artist from the milieu of his contemporaries (such as Brancusi or ...

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