2–October 4, 2026
Upcoming
Southeast Asia’s flagship contemporary art fair returns to JIExpo with a published survey of more than seventy Asia-focused galleries.
Dates and planning notes →10
Culture calendarFrieze London in Regent’s Park, Busan’s cinema festival, Paris’s Art Basel week and the opening of DESIGNART TOKYO connect living artists, historical material, Asian discovery and the European market.
The selections
2–October 4, 2026
Upcoming
Southeast Asia’s flagship contemporary art fair returns to JIExpo with a published survey of more than seventy Asia-focused galleries.
Dates and planning notes →6–October 15, 2026
Upcoming
Busan’s ten-day festival brings Asian premieres, independent discoveries, public audiences and a parallel film market into one coastal city.
Dates and planning notes →9–October 11, 2026
Upcoming
Singapore’s original Formula 1 night race adds its first Sprint weekend, turning Marina Bay into a three-day programme rather than a Sunday-evening appointment.
Dates and planning notes →13–October 18, 2026
Upcoming
PAD London returns to Berkeley Square during Frieze week with historical and contemporary design for collectors deciding what should sit beneath the art.
Dates and planning notes →14–October 18, 2026
Upcoming
Frieze's contemporary fair returns to The Regent's Park each October beside Frieze Masters, with a free outdoor sculpture trail and a denser Mayfair gallery week around both tents.
Dates and planning notes →20–October 25, 2026
Upcoming
Design Miami’s Paris edition returns to the eighteenth-century hôtel particulier on Rue de l’Université, the collectible-design stop during Art Basel Paris week.
Dates and planning notes →22–October 22, 2026
Upcoming
Kyoto’s Festival of the Ages walks the city’s ceremonial wardrobe from the Imperial Palace to Heian Jingu, moving backward from the Meiji Restoration toward the founding of Heian-kyo.
Dates and planning notes →23–October 25, 2026
Upcoming
Art Basel’s Paris edition brings more than 200 galleries to the Grand Palais while museum, design and gallery programmes extend the week across the city.
Dates and planning notes →October 24–November 9, 2026
Upcoming
For seventeen autumn days, the Nara National Museum brings a small selection of Shōsō-in treasures into public view, from imperial game pieces to objects shaped by Silk Road exchange.
Dates and planning notes →October 29–November 10, 2026
Upcoming
London’s autumn Asian-art week gathers dealers, auction houses and museum talks across Mayfair and St James’s, the walking counterpart to March on Madison.
Dates and planning notes →October 30–November 2, 2026
Upcoming
Taiwan’s gallery-association fair, now in its thirty-third year, fills World Trade Center Hall 1 in Xinyi after Taipei Dangdai stepped aside.
Dates and planning notes →October 30–November 8, 2026
Upcoming
Tokyo’s tenth citywide design-and-art festival spreads interiors, fashion, craft and installations from a temporary KK Line main stage through Aoyama, Harajuku and Daikanyama.
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