A copy of the Mona Lisa was put on display at the Museo del Prado (Madrid, Spain) yesterday where it will stay until it moves to Paris for its inclusion in the exhibition at the Louvre on Leonardo that opens on 29 March.

Madrid is againt he meeting place for contemporary art professionals worldwide, with the 31st edition of ARCOmadrid, organised by IFEMA and held from 15 to 19 February at Feria de Madrid. A total of 215 galleries from 29 countries will display a wide range of contemporary art to the public, with works by 3,000 artists.

Cezanne's  Card Players has been sold for $250 million (€191.6 million) The deal sets the highest price ever paid for a work of art and upends the modern art market.The previous record was said to be $140 million  paid for a Jackson Pollock in 2006.

Catalan painter,sculptor and art theorist Antoni Tàpies died at the age of 88 in Barcelona, according to media reports. Tàpies, son of a liberal publisher and a bookseller, began his career in Spain as a surrealist painter influenced by such artists as Paul Klee and Joan Miro.

American painter, printmaker and sculptor James Rosenquist designed the eighty-six-foot-long oil on canvas F-111 to wrap around the four walls of the Leo Castelli Gallery, at 4 East Seventy-Seventh Street in Manhattan. He began the painting in 1964, in the middle of a turbulent decade marked by the escalating Vietnam War.