Self-portrait of Xu Beihong.

"This is the first time we've included film," says Magnus Renfrew, Art Basel's director for Asia and the founder of Art Hong Kong.

"We commissioned the Berlin artist Carsten Nicolai to create an app with an audio component to go with his light display at ICC. Alpha Pulse is an emotional response to the different frequencies of light and sound."

One of the highlights on the sidelines of the fair was a debate organized by the Hong Kong office of Intelligence2 entitled Asia Should House its Poor Before it Houses its Art: The Funding of Museums is Best Left to Private Patrons.

It's a controversial topic, as Hong Kong's West Kowloon Cultural District continues to see star architects being commissioned to build government-funded galleries and museums. Meanwhile, China's museum software of curators and art critics lags behind its hardware of shiny new buildings.

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