Carlos Amorales, the São Paulo Biennial at Tamayo, Julian Charrière and three sharper smaller-scale projects make Mexico City one of November’s richest research destinations.

From Wendell Castle and Ron Arad to Joris Laarman and contemporary material innovators, a collector’s guide to authenticity, editions, provenance and living with sculptural furniture.

Michael Chow commissioned portraits from Basquiat, Warhol, Haring, Hockney, Ruscha and others. Inside the collection behind Gagosian’s Friends and Legends.

Christine Sun Kim and Theaster Gates lead a Seoul route that also tests Pam Evelyn’s momentum and highlights Yuichi Hirako, Jenny Holzer and Heejoon Lee.

Amsterdam’s major Kusama retrospective, planned during the artist’s lifetime, has become a poignant opportunity to look beyond the mirrored rooms to seven decades of experimentation.

At Princeton, eleven paintings from 1984 reveal a Basquiat who copied, screened and revised his own images with exacting intent—complicating the myth of improvisational genius.