The mixed reality headset offers astonishing visual quality. But, as it goes on sale at $3,500 a go, how will it enhance curators' dreams of giving global access to high-fidelity experiences of gallery and museum shows?

Major auction houses have posted steep falls in turnover for the year so far—but some categories, such as luxury goods, are booming

The Turner Prize-nominated artist-filmmaker discusses their current solo show in Rome and award-winning solo stand at Art Basel

Plus, the Liverpool Biennial, and Basquiat in Basel with Jeffrey Deitch

Pop-up arts programme from Basel Social Club comes ahead of major regeneration initiative in the city

The mini-presentations, which launched in Miami Beach before heading to Hong Kong, aim to diversify what's on offer at the fair

Plus: German dealer reveals his naked ambition and Venice Biennale's new curator comes a-scouting

We choose six dreamy design displays at the fair

The multimedia artist discusses their biggest show to date, including a series of unnerving interventions into the museum’s architecture

The Hong Kong-based FinTech entrepreneur and philanthropist explains why he is drawn to moving-image work and offers advice for the Basel newbie

Collectors show greater interest in photographers but larger galleries still favour mid-career and older artists

Artcurial Beurret Bailly Widmer will offer a selection of works from the estate of Florence and Antoine Poncet

Secondary market works are taking longer to place as art trade faces “a clear readjustment”

Plus, fair guides take on the chatbots and Kosovan artist talks to the chickens

Curator Giovanni Carmine walks us through some of his favourites for this edition

The leading Warhol photography collector explains why divorce papers stopped him buying a Vija Celmins painting and reveals Basel’s best party location

Plus, Thomas Price makes a return journey and Cornelia Parker (finally) takes flight

Amid a market that increasingly worships the young while women and those from the Global South fight for a place at the table, the Basel fair’s policy faces calls for a rethink

Despite fears of a market slowdown, clients were spending at a packed Art Basel

Glacier Dreams is being projected on the façade of Theater Basel this week

This year's Parcours sector reveals—to both visitors and locals—some of the Swiss city's hidden gems

Art sales contracts now often include terms stating when and how you can—or rather, how you cannot—sell a work on

The head of the art collection of Swiss bank describes the joy of floating down the Rhine—and her soft spot for Nefertiti

Artist aims to elicit both catharsis and discomfort from audiences for her music performances outside the Art Basel fair

Artist has created new body of work for solo exhibition at Hauser & Wirth in Zurich

Credit Suisse’s current benefactors include Kunsthaus Zurich, Kunstmuseum Basel and the National Gallery in London

Andreas Rumbler will be tasked with uniting the mega-gallery's Swiss spaces "under a common vision"

Augustas Serapinas creates the ultimate Art Basel workout using plaster cast pieces

The tech entrepreneur and blockchain professor has a passion for street and digital art

An interactive show of multimedia works has opened at Museum Tinguely while the Fondation Beyeler has reunited a series of Basquiat paintings