Trans-Pacific collecting rises in the global marketplace

The breaking down of national barriers is giving rise to new cross-cultural collecting habits, a hot topic at Art Basel HK.
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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.

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Gina Fairley is ArtsHub's National Visual Arts Editor. For a decade she worked as a freelance writer and curator across Southeast Asia and was previously the Regional Contributing Editor for Hong Kong based magazines Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. Prior to writing she worked as an arts manager in America and Australia for 14 years, including the regional gallery, biennale and commercial sectors. She is based in Mittagong, regional NSW. Twitter: @ginafairley Instagram: fairleygina