Exhibition Of The Week Giacometti

Tate Modern, London SE1 (020-7887 8888, www.tate.org.uk). Until 10 September

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For a long time, I thought Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) was one of the “most over rated of modern artists”, said Waldemar Januszczak in The Sunday Times. The “sheer ubiquity” of his trademark bronze “stick men” sculptures, and the “joyless postwar colour scheme of beiges and greys” in his paintings, convinced me he was a “damp cloth” of an artist – and a repetitive one to boot. But after visiting Tate Modern’s revelatory new Giacometti retrospective, I’m not so sure. The exhibition, bringing together some 250 works from every stage of Giacometti’s career, demonstrates that the “doomy” late output for which he is best known is just the tip of the iceberg. As the show proves, he was a “much more varied and questing” artist than many take him for, nimbly adopting different styles and