Douglas GORDON & Morgane TSCHIEMBER

Cy Twombly died on 5 July in Rome. The American artist had lived the last 60 years of his life in Italy.

Jeremy Deller (38) has been awarded the Turner Prize 2004. The British artist created a sensation with his video entitled “Memory Bucket: A Film About Texas”.

In a tense economic climate, contemporary art auctions in New York are proving stronger than modern art and impressionist art sales. The evening auctions may have been unexceptional. But Sotheby’s and Christie’s still managed some reassuring surprises, generally in the less prestigious later sessions, when prices for some artists showed real growth and some of them turned out to be impressive records.