20.11.2008 - Watches clock up a record £1.45m

Christie’s announce that they will offer a lost work by the great Italian master Giambattista Tiepolo (1696-1770) Portrait of a lady as Flora at the evening auction of Important Old Master and British Pictures on 2 December 2008 in London.

Art Basel Miami Beach is upon us once again, and in full force, despite reports from The Miami Herald and many others of an art-market crash.

French police seized a number of works by the Ukrainian performance artist Oleg Kulik on the stand of Moscow’s XL gallery during Fiac (Foire international d’art contemporain), the leading contemporary art fair, held in the Grand Palais, Paris, on 23-26 October, The Art Newspaper reports.

“Raymond Depardon and I are both concerned by the same question: what is left of the world, of native lands,of the history of the only habitable planet today?” Paul Virilio

As from November 21 and for several months, the Artvera’s Gallery opens to the public its new exhibition dedicated to the Knave of Diamonds, Die Brücke and Blaue Reiter painters.

"This Obscure Object of Art", an exhibition of 40 works including paintings,assemblages and sculptures by 17 contemporary Russian artists, opens at the Kunsthistorische Museum in Vienna on 28 October 2008.