The latest ‘Straight from the Source’ interview between Art Basel Awards medalists Farah Al Qasimi and Hamza Walker of The Brick takes in punk, Gulf architecture, and the enduring appeal of SpongeBob SquarePants.
Read the full interview: bit.ly/3V5lMba
🇯🇵Tokyo is calling: @ArtWeekTokyo 2026 is here!🚌
Returning November 4–8, #ArtWeekTokyo brings together a record 56 galleries, museums, institutions, and other art venues across the city for five days of contemporary art.
Explore the city with the free hop-on, hop-off AWT Bus, running November 6–8 from 10am–6pm and connecting participating venues across multiple routes.
Plan your visit at artweektokyo.com
Looking #ArtBaselMiamiBeach right in the eye 👁️ 🌴
Image: Marilyn Minter, Four AM, 2026 via Gravlak Gallery
Miami Beach is on the horizon! 🌴
What are you most excited to see at the show? Let us know in the comments 👇
Don’t miss the season’s biggest art event, taking place December 4–6. Get your tickets here 👉 bit.ly/4sGFlmK
Simone Fattal has some advice for young artists.
For Art Basel Conversations in Paris, Simone Fattal and Hans Ulrich Obrist pick up their ongoing dialogue. Taking Fattal’s forthcoming exhibition at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris – and her work in Art Basel Paris’s Public Program – as their point of departure, they revisit the questions and discoveries that have animated their exchange over the last decades.
Watch the full conversation: bit.ly/3W8Nkg9
Can an experience be the artwork?
In this excerpt from Art Basel Conversations in Paris, Alexnadre de Betak reflects on the evolving context of the world, art, and creation.
Watch the full panel with Massimiliano Gioni: youtube.com/watch?v=pLnENZKl…
"Even if it fails, at least we did give it a try" — Ibrahim Mahama
For his ‘Artist one-on-ones’ conversation at Art Basel Paris, Ibrahim Mahama spoke with Aby Gaye-Duparc, curator of his first exhibition in Paris, ‘The Harvest Season’, at the Fondation Cartier. They discuss the cultural institutions the artist has founded in Tamale, northern Ghana, and how working with local communities has become central to his practice.
Watch the full panel: bit.ly/4BxvWSk
#ArtBaselStories: Fashion maverick Erdem on five groundbreaking collections
Old-fashioned romance meets high concept in the designer's first major career survey, with gowns that delve deep into the histories of art, ballet, and opera
Read in ➡️ bit.ly/48nKM0h
#ArtBaselStories: An art garden blooms in Washington, DC
As Hiroshi Sugimoto’s verdant overhaul of the Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden opens, five artists, from Elmgreen & Dragset to Arlene Shechet, reflect on what their works say today
Read in ➡️ bit.ly/4iduhKb
Throwback to last week’s incredible GENER8ION × Art Basel × Live Nation France collaboration 🔥
Relive this one-of-a-kind experience where art, music and cinema came together inside the historic Rotonde d’Antin at the Grand Palais – and hear from the audience about the impact it left.
#ArtBaselStories: Why the art world is favoring those who do it all
Today’s creative polymaths are thinking beyond traditional disciplines to effect real change, and the art world is their sandbox:
Read in ➡️ bit.ly/4e4TWlT
For Art Basel Paris, @EfdotStudio transforms his signature cartographic language into a monumental portrait of the city. Streets, neighborhoods, architecture, and landmarks are woven into one composition, then divided into 15 interconnected artworks. Each section stands independently while contributing to a complete portrait of Paris. Sold with authenticated digital components via the @iconic__culture platform.
This work will be available through November 1. iconicmoments.co/art-basel-p…
Art Basel retweeted
Cities // Paris by @EfdotStudio is now live.
Fifteen limited-edition compositions and two unique Master Compositions, created exclusively for Art Basel Paris 2026.
Explore and collect:
iconicmoments.co/art-basel-p…
Art Basel retweeted
Noah Horowitz, CEO of @ArtBasel, said the organisation aims to strengthen #Qatar’s art scene and connect local artists and cultural practitioners with the global #art market through year-round programmes and international partnerships.
Speaking to Doha News on Monday at the UN World Investment Forum in #Doha, Horowitz said Art Basel’s inaugural Doha edition in February attracted more than 17,000 visitors and generated strong sales across the market.
Horowitz said interest in the event was growing ahead of #ArtBasel’s second edition in Doha, as the organisation builds on its partnership with Qatar to raise the international profile of the country’s cultural scene.
#ArtBaselStories: When artists become patrons
Foundations, residencies, collecting, mentorship, and, most of all, community: Leading artists including Frank Bowling, Julie Mehretu, and Yinka Shonibare reflect on the different ways to support other artists
Read in ➡️ bit.ly/3WQPIIt
Art Basel retweeted
Cities // Paris is open through Sunday!
iconicmoments.co/art-basel-p…
This Art Basel collab has been a long time coming, huge thanks to everyone who’s collected an edition so far 🙏
‘I picture myself somewhere between alchemist and magician,' explains Ladji Diaby.
Drawing on the magic and histories he finds in everyday objects, French-Malian artist Ladji Diaby creates works that tell stories at once personal and collective.
Ahead of #ArtBaselParis, spend time with the artist his studio in Ivry-sur-Seine, in the Paris suburbs, where he grew up and still lives.
➡️ Watch the full episode: bit.ly/4yHFkA0
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Ladji Diaby is represented by Galerie Crevecoeur (Paris). His exhibition ‘Godspeed You Black Emperor’ is on view at Crèvecoeur until November 28, 2026.
Meet the artists | Ladji Diaby was produced in collaboration with @nowness.
#ArtBaselStories: Artist-chef Caique Tizzi sees sculptures in pineapples
The Brazilian-born creative takes us inside his visual world, sharing the images, ingredients, and artistic references that inform his practice at the intersection of art and gastronomy:
Read in ➡️ bit.ly/4is2EMd
A final flight over #ArtBaselParis at the Grand Palais.
From above, the fair’s many conversations, encounters, and carefully considered presentations come into view. With the unexpected early closure, fewer people than hoped were able to experience them in person – making these moments feel all the more worth revisiting.
Thank you again to every gallery, artist, and visitor who shaped this edition.