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LatestOctober 17, 2026

Start Art Basel Paris at Booth O.A2

Tina Kim and Take Ninagawa share one booth at the Grand Palais, 23 to 25 October. Stand in front of the tapestry, then climb for the two solos on the balcony.

Lee ShinJa, Resurrection, 1975, a tall woven hanging with cream arcs, a dark fringed circle, and a magenta triangle

Rajendra Dabriwala and his son Surbhit standing in front of a cityscape by Ram Kumar

Over Twenty Dabriwala Works at The Henderson, 18 to 29 November

Wood-framed entrance marked House of Shinsegae, with two shoppers walking into a corridor of ribbed glass and oval wall lights

Shinsegae Gangnam's Private Room Starts at 120 Million Won

Kang Kang-hoon, Dobermann Pinscher, 2026, oil on canvas: a frontal Dobermann with turquoise marks across the face

Start Frieze London at Booth D11

Jeong Seon, Clearing after Rain on Mount Inwang, 1751, ink on paper hanging scroll

Clearing After Rain Lands in Bloomsbury

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Preserved coal hopper and concrete umbrella vaults at Long Museum West Bund along Shanghai’s Huangpu riverfront

The Collectors Shaping Contemporary Asian Art

Shanghai private museums write the canon after the hammer: Long Museum West Bund first, Yuz in Qingpu next, with gift labels and appointment rooms as export proof.

Hong Kong tram on Johnston Road, Wan Chai, wrapped in Art Basel and UBS advertising

Why Art Basel Hong Kong Owns March

Art Basel at HKCEC, Art March across the city, and West Kowloon on the same week: why diaspora collectors treat March in Hong Kong as a calendar appointment.

Niwatori-hoko float during Kyoto's Gion Matsuri procession

Kyoto's July Festival Is a Moving Collection

Gion Matsuri fills July with neighborhood textiles, heirloom houses, and two float processions. Plan one evening and one morning, not the whole month.

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Patronage & Power

Foundations, boards, and the economics of cultural influence.

M+ Sigg Collection: Four Decades of Chinese Contemporary Art exhibition, Hong Kong, 2016

How the Sigg Collection Built M+

Niwatori-hoko float during Kyoto's Gion Matsuri procession

Kyoto's July Festival Is a Moving Collection

Classical art in a museum setting

Who Really Pays for the Culture

Victoria Harbour and Hong Kong Island skyline from the M+ roof garden, West Kowloon

The Patrons Who Earned the Job

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Collectors & Creatives

The figures shaping what gets seen, acquired, and remembered.

Preserved coal hopper and concrete umbrella vaults at Long Museum West Bund along Shanghai’s Huangpu riverfront

The Collectors Shaping Contemporary Asian Art

Hong Kong tram on Johnston Road, Wan Chai, wrapped in Art Basel and UBS advertising

Why Art Basel Hong Kong Owns March

Seoul cityscape at dusk

Why Frieze Seoul Owns September

Neo-Gothic Elisabethenkirche in Basel at golden hour, with glass pyramids in the plaza foreground

Why Design Miami Basel Matters

Looking down the spiral atrium at Leeum Museum of Art in Seoul, with iridescent glass panels

The Names Behind the Canon Shift

Quiet executive office with city view

The Leaders Who Never Post

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Kim Younghwan, Self-Portrait Landscape, 1962, oil on canvas from the MMCA collection

Fantasy Opens at M+ Before the Paris Fairs

Yellow-tiled roofs of the Forbidden City seen from Jingshan Park, with trees in the foreground and a pale modern skyline beyond

How China's Common Prosperity Initiative is Affecting Global Luxury

Visitors viewing Marco Gallery's wooden rider-and-horse installation beside the Maison Cinquantecinq dining lounge at Tokyo Gendai, PACIFICO Yokohama

Tokyo Gendai Opens With Its Last Yokohama

Ferrari Luce Chassis 0 on a Monterey Car Week stage beneath a Ferrari backdrop reading $40,000,000 for the Ferrari Foundation

Chassis 0 Puts Forty Million on Ferrari's Next Client

Fountain and main entrance of The Peninsula Hong Kong on Salisbury Road, Tsim Sha Tsui

Read the Owner Before the Flag

Glass entrance and living-wall lobby of The Hari Hong Kong in Wan Chai, designed by Tara Bernerd & Partners

The Hari Keeps Its Name Inside IHG

Shane Ng porcelain pinwheels on the main wall of FOST Gallery, with a framed photograph leaning in the alcove beyond

Singapore Gallery Month Starts With a Conversation

Wide view of Dib Bangkok's central courtyard, with the cone-shaped Chapel reflected in a still pool and a small figure at the far end

Kulapat Yantrasast and the Asian Museum Century

Speaker in embroidered sari and emerald jewelry beside a couture rack and Vogue Wedding Atelier signage at Taj Palace, New Delhi

Vogue’s New Delhi Wedding Atelier Turns the Indian Wedding Into a Luxury Marketplace

Infinite Maze 189 interior at PROJCT with circular floor grid, hanging ceiling panels, and Queen’s Road West shops beyond the glass

Soft Architecture Walks Into Sai Ying Pun

Granite-clad exterior of Shenzhen Natural History Museum rising beside Yanzi Lake in Pingshan

Shenzhen's Museums Are Rewriting the Hong Kong Weekend

Road and port buildings at Ballard Pier, Fort, Mumbai

Collectors' Cove Opens on Ballard Pier

What the Taipei Dangdai Cancellation Says About Global Art in 2026

Victoria Harbour and Hong Kong Island skyline from the M+ roof garden, West Kowloon

The Patrons Who Earned the Job

Catriona Gray seated outdoors on the Mayon Lounge Chair from the Payak collection, white dress against tropical foliage

Payak Keeps the Weave Visible

Preserved coal hopper and concrete umbrella vaults at Long Museum West Bund along Shanghai’s Huangpu riverfront

The Collectors Shaping Contemporary Asian Art

Looking down the spiral atrium at Leeum Museum of Art in Seoul, with iridescent glass panels

The Names Behind the Canon Shift

Neo-Gothic Elisabethenkirche in Basel at golden hour, with glass pyramids in the plaza foreground

Why Design Miami Basel Matters

Marcel Breuer building at Madison Avenue and East 75th Street during its Met Breuer years, Upper East Side Manhattan

Asia Week Still Opens on Madison

Daytime Georgia Street facade of the Vancouver Art Gallery, neoclassical former courthouse with copper dome

Hong Kong's Collection Lands in Vancouver

Architectural model of David Adjaye's Kiran Nadar Museum of Art campus for New Delhi, with peaked facade modules

Rabaté Leaves Louvre Abu Dhabi for Delhi's Nadar Museum

Korean Pavilion exterior in the Giardini, Venice, with copper pipes from Goen Choi's Meridian

In Venice, Asian Pavilions Are Rehearsing History

Niwatori-hoko float during Kyoto's Gion Matsuri procession

Kyoto's July Festival Is a Moving Collection

Looking the length of the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles, with mirrored arches facing garden windows

Europe's Courts Were Already Half Asian

Asia Society headquarters at 725 Park Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan

Seventy Years of Asia Society, Still on Park Avenue

Wedding tea set arranged for a ceremony in Hong Kong

Chinese Wedding Guest Etiquette, Across the Diaspora

M+ Sigg Collection: Four Decades of Chinese Contemporary Art exhibition, Hong Kong, 2016

How the Sigg Collection Built M+

Hong Kong tram on Johnston Road, Wan Chai, wrapped in Art Basel and UBS advertising

Why Art Basel Hong Kong Owns March

Seoul cityscape at dusk

Why Frieze Seoul Owns September

Quiet executive office with city view

The Leaders Who Never Post

Classical art in a museum setting

Who Really Pays for the Culture