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M+ Gala 2026 Raises Funds for Museum's Growth and Operations in Hong Kong

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M+, Asia’s global museum of contemporary visual culture in Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Cultural District, hosted its fundraising M+ Gala 2026 on October 30, 2026, in the museum’s Main Hall. The event brought together over 450 distinguished guests from Hong Kong and around the world, including leading figures from the international art and cultural community such as artist Cao Fei, MoMA Director Christophe Cherix, and Centre Pompidou President Laurent Le Bon. The evening featured a live charity auction led by auctioneer Elaine Kwok, with six works by Asia’s leading artists donated by the artists and their galleries, including Dominique Fung with MASSIMODECARLO, Duan Jianyu with Vitamin Creative Space, and Takashi Murakami with Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. Additional lots included fine wines, a 5-day art and wine experience in South France, and a collectable MEGA ROYAL MOLLY figure. All proceeds from the gala will support M+’s future growth and operations, including collection and preservation, exhibitions, commissions, research, and public programmes.

A gala in the Main Hall is M+ converting attendance into an operating budget — the West Kowloon model leans on private evenings like this one, not gate receipts.

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The Signal

“Christie's twentieth year in the UAE gets a MAWASIM sale in Abu Dhabi — the Gulf calendar now sets the November tempo, not London.”

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The pattern this week

Ninety-nine stories in seven days, and the shape is institutional: 40 openings, 12 acquisitions, only 14 auction results worth €29.7M combined. Paris took 22 of them to New York's 18 — a soft auction week dressed as an exhibition week.

The Market

€29.7M across 14 auctions this week

This week · 99 stories · 40 exhibitions opening · busiest city: Paris

€1,000,000 – 1,500,000 Artcurial's Lalanne & Bestiary Sale to Offer François-Xavier Lalanne's 'Capricorne' Estimated at €1M-1.5M Artcurial · earlier this week

Musée d'Orsay Adds 14 Works by Sisley, Degas, Cézanne, Renoir, and Others to Collection Musée d'Orsay · earlier this week

Featured

Thaddaeus Ropac Publishes Comprehensive Volume on Miquel Barceló's Career

On October 31, 2026, Thaddaeus Ropac announced the publication of a comprehensive volume on artist Miquel Barceló. The book covers Barceló's five-decade career, including his paintings, sculptures…

Why it matters
A five-decade monograph published by his own gallery is Ropac staking a scholarly claim on Barceló before the next museum survey — the kind of book that quietly firms up primary pricing.

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The Wire

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Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Opens Call for Impressions Artist Residency — Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

Earlier this week

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Galleria Continua Presents Shilpa Gupta in 'Traces of Us' at Jaipur Sculpture Park — Galleria Continua

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M+, Centre Pompidou, MoMA Announce Unprecedented Cultural Alliance — M+

The Week Ahead

Opened Oct 30

Nationalmuseum's 'Fantasy and Reality: The Art of Johan Tobias Sergel' Opens at Morgan Library & Museum Nationalmuseum

Opened Oct 31

Pace Gallery Previews Elmgreen & Dragset's 'Eight' at Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden Pace Gallery

Opened Oct 31

Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Opens Major Mariko Mori Retrospective 'All That Shines' Mori Art Museum

Today

Stedelijk Museum Appoints Chris Dercon and Barbera Wolfensberger to Supervisory Board Stedelijk Museum

Today

Karimah Ashadu's 'Tendered' Opens at Renaissance Society, Chicago Sadie Coles HQ

Today

Cleveland Museum of Art Presents 'Furnishing American Synagogues' with Jewish Museum, New York Cleveland Museum of Art

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On the Rise

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François-Xavier Lalanne — François-Xavier Lalanne was a French sculptor and designer celebrated for his whimsical, functional animal-themed furniture and bronze sculptures. He is best known for… Profile →

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