K-pop group NewJeans voiced an audio guide for The British Museum and Chinese actress Zhu Zhu did one for Galleria Borghese as more major institutions court Asian stars to widen their audiences.

Getting ready for this summer of sport? Book in at Le Royal Monceau or Le Grand Mazarin, grab your Dior Book Tote and go explore Dover Street Market Paris

Bria Murphy, who the actor shares with ex-wife Nicole Mitchell, just made a cameo in the 4th Beverly Hills Cop film – what we know about the eldest girl of the SNL star’s 10 kids

‘I.M. Pei: Life Is Architecture’ looks back over the life and career of the Chinese-American who was one of the most important architects of recent decades

Three friends who endured a horribly discriminatory job interview decided to bring the experiences of disabled artists in Hong Kong to the public arena under a banner of ‘crip art’.

An order by the authorities in Singapore to erase a smoking cigarette from a mural in the city’s Chinatown district has provoked a row over art censorship.

Kota Kinabalu, in Malaysia’s Sabah state, has become a centre for street art, but big brands have seized on its spread to commission advertising murals, undermining artists’ message about local pride.

The rescheduled and extended Art021 fair will run from August 28 to September 8 in four locations, including a free show in Victoria Park, and take place in conjunction with a Greater Bay Area Art Week.

Boucheron’s More is More has onyx and mother-of-pearl, Cindy Chao used garnets and aquamarines for her Amour Butterfly, while Pomellato’s Armonie Minerali and Scarabeo both showcase semi-precious gems

Alice Lee, founder of Ztoryhome, explains why she created the multipurpose creative space and cafe and how she plans on using food and drink as a gateway to art and culture for customers.

Hong Kong designer toymaker and artist Michael Lau explains how Constantin Brancusi’s atelier at Paris’ Pompidou Centre gave a vivid understanding of the Romanian sculptor and inspired his practice.

Since splitting from Olivier Sarkozy in 2020, Mary-Kate Olsen has kept her love life low key, but she was recently spotted out and about with PC Valmorbida – so what do we know about the arty socialite?

Performance art has taken root in Hong Kong despite the political climate, especially among millennials and Gen Z, probably inspired by Marina Abramović, with gender, feminism and sexuality top themes.

Yao Jui-chung’s photographs of abandoned public buildings, on show in Vancouver in the show Mirage: Disused Public Property in Taiwan, will, he hopes, highlight the wastefulness of leaving them unused.

A new exhibition at Paris’ Petit Palais called We Are Here shows works from Invader, Shepard Fairey and other street artists. But could acceptance by the establishment taint a subversive genre?

Nightmarish scenes of zoomorphic phalluses, Tetsumi Kudo’s ‘cages’ artworks implore audiences to reject complacency. The sexes’ contrasting reactions at the opening of a show of his work in Hong Kong were a sight in themselves.

As an art student, Hilarie Hon Hang-lam wanted to go against her professor’s wishes and paint for her final work. Reading Gabriel Garcia Márquez’s book convinced her to stick to her principles.

Community and connection are the themes of Refugee Week Hong Kong, in which poetry readings, a film festival and other events will highlight the challenges faced by asylum seekers, and their creativity.

The staging of Gallery Weekend Beijing to coincide with two art fairs shows the ambitions of Beijing’s art scene to restore its global prominence after years of isolation that began with the pandemic.

Hong Kong’s Wallace Chan exemplifies spiritual wellness – having a sense of purpose, meaning and inner peace. Practising mindfulness as he creates work like Transcendence, showing in Venice, helps him attain it.

Pace CEO Marc Glimcher talks about the international gallery’s new Tokyo location – its first in Japan – and the blossoming Japanese art scene, plus why ‘it is insane to say that Hong Kong is done’.

Successive blockbuster exhibitions of ancient artefacts are a rare chance for American audiences to delve into Chinese culture.

The global art market has slowed, and Hong Kong auction houses are feeling it, with many big-name paintings including ones by Warhol and Basquiat selling for below estimates in spring sales.

The traditional Korean ceramic art form buncheong will take centre stage in Hong Kong as an artist who is breathing life into the ancient craft shows his work and teaches technique in a 3-day workshop.

Shuang Li grew up in Fujian listening to discarded CDs of American band My Chemical Romance. Her favourite band inspires the art in her New York exhibition I’m Not.

The National Holocaust Museum, Jewish Museum and Rijksmuseum in the Netherlands have put together an exhibition that uses Jewish families’ looted possessions to show the impact of wartime Nazi occupation.

Hong Kong artist Bianca Tse has created whimsical AI images of the notorious Kowloon Walled City, a warren of slum buildings in the city demolished in 1993 and 1994. She talks about what inspired her project.

‘A very innocent shape paired with a grotesque material’ is how Pakistani artist Sameen Agha describes her prize-winning sculpture – a comment on domestic violence against women.