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The Saatchi Gallery is set to re-open in the 70,000 sq. ft. Duke of York HQ building on King's Road, Chelsea on October 9 2008 with an exhibition dedicated to new art from China.

In Doha, Qatar, on Sunday October 5th, Sotheby’s announced plans to open an office in Doha in 2008, and to hold its first major international series of auctions in Doha in early 2009.

The first Russian pre-sale exhibition by Dorotheum, the leading Austrian auction house, will be held at the building of Stella Art fund on October 17-20.

Christie’s will present a series of exhibitions and
auctions dedicated to Post-War and Contemporary art and 20th
century Italian art.

Victoria Gelfand, director of Gagosian's London space, has told Bloomberg that the international gallery chain now makes almost 50 percent of its total sales to buyers from Russia and other former Soviet republics.

CCC Moscow, the new gallery set up by Daria Zhukova, girlfriend of Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, will host a Francis Bacon exhibition in 2010.

The city of Oslo has announced a plan to move several museums and its main library to a central waterside location near the harbour and close to the new NKr3.3bn ($500m) National Opera house.

Some of the works left behind by eccentric socialite and art dealer William M. V. Kingsland are believed to have been stolen, reports the Associated Press.

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