Christian Boltanski, the French artist known for transforming found objects into artworks that explore collective memory and trauma, died today in Paris. He was 76 years old. The news was confirmed by ...

Christian Boltanski, the French conceptual artist known for work that explored notions of memory, loss and personal as well as cultural history, died today in Paris at the age of 76. His death was ...

In 2009, the Tasmanian art collector David Walsh commissioned a piece of work from Christian Boltanski called La Vie de CB. As the title suggested, the completion of this was to take Boltanski the ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The ghosts of the great and the echoes of near-forgotten dialogues resound in the dining room of La Closerie des ...

Life as a conveyor belt, taking us inexorathe bly from birth to death, is not an original idea. Charlie Chaplin had the same thought in the famous sequence from Modern Times (1936) when the worker was ...

MATTERS OF LIFE and death have long occupied Christian Boltanski. Why do some people survive while others perish? What role does chance play in life? Is it really possible to remember the dead? For a ...

No Man’s Land, the new installation by the French artist Christian Boltanski, which occupies the 55,000 square feet of the Wade Thompson Drill Hall of the Park Avenue Armory, centers around a ...

Christian Boltanski belongs to the handful of artists who have reached the status of being French national treasures. Often tinted by the memory of the Holocaust, his installations, sculptures, and ...

At first sight, the monumental artwork being installed at the Park Avenue Armory suggests nothing so much as a crane claw, the frustrating arcade game in which a player tries to pull a stuffed animal ...

“Say hello to the camera,” Christian Boltanski tells me, pointing to a lens behind him as I enter his studio. In 2009, the French multimedia artist made the headlines when he "sold his life" in the ...

Christian Boltanski, the French conceptual artist known for work that explored notions of memory, loss and personal as well as cultural history, died today in Paris at the age of 76. His death was ...