Countdown to Art Basel in Hong Kong

The Japanese artist Tatsuo Miyajima’s Time Waterfall is due to transform Hong Kong’s tallest skyscraper, the 118-storey ICC tower in Kowloon, each night next week during Art Basel in Hong Kong. The illuminated numerals that will cascade down the building “express the ethos of living in the present”, according to a press statement, which seems apt for the city’s most hectic art week of the year.   While speculation continues over the effects on the art world of