Paul Chan, The argument: Antietam, (detail), 2013, courtesy the artist and Greene Naftali, New York, © Paul Chan, photo: Tom Bisig
As well as being market playgrounds, art fairs have increasingly become forums for conversations that capture the zeitgeist of collecting. Among the talks presented at Art Basel Hong Kong last month, was the topic of trans-Pacific collecting, the trend of collectors to diversify across neighbouring cultures and jump national borders.