“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 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 ...

In often sprawling works that used old photos, discarded clothes and other found objects, he pondered loss, chance and memory. By Neil Genzlinger See more of our coverage in your search ...

The Pinault Collection's new exhibition at the Bourse de Commerce, 'Clair-obscur,' features some 100 works by 27 artists that explore the theme of death. Digital art is no longer the new kid at 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 ...

The Australian art collector and gambler David Walsh has said that the artwork he commissioned in 2010 from Christian Boltanski, who died this week, will remain as “an archive of a great creator”.

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 ...

Turning to photography with a personal and historical address in 1969, the French installation artist Christian Boltanski mailed 150 galleries a nine-page booklet titled “Recherche et presentation de ...

First there is the noise, a ­clamour that fills the ­echoing vault of the Grand Palais like a great and ­distant crowd. It shifts as one wanders about ­Christian Boltanski's Personnes, his new project ...

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 ...

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 ...