The first major exhibition in Moscow of works by Ilya Kabakov opens today at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. It marks a long-awaited homecoming for Russia’s leading postwar artist, who emigrated in 1987.
The show’s second segment opens tomorrow at the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, located in a former 1920s bus garage, and headed by Dasha Zhukova. On Sept. 17, the final segment opens at Winzavod contemporary art center, a private entity owned by transport magnate Roman Trotsenko. (BLOOMBERG)

New York auctions have given us some exciting news. In particular, two very important new records: Francis Bacon has realized the highest price ever paid for a work of contemporary art and Lucian Freud has become the most paid living artist in the world. However, after the adrenalin stirred up by the important results, the time for questioning arrives. Who might be the mysterious buyer of the fantastic paintings sold in New York? What will become of them? Public exhibition or private viewing?
Some of these questions may have found an answer. Indeed, within the circle there are rumours about a few names, and it seems that the buyer of the two masterpieces of contemporary art sold in the last days has been identified.