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The M+ museum in Hong Kong opened on November 12, 2021 in the West Kowloon Cultural District, and boasts 17,000 square metres (183,000 sq ft) of exhibition space and over 6,400 pieces in its collection spanning modern and contemporary art, design, architecture, and moving images. Before its launch,it was criticised for collecting images seen to be disrespectful to the Chinese government; however, the museum has defended its acquisition policy.
Popular West Kowloon Cultural District needs a sound self-financing strategy, and must not become just a property developer.
With two outstanding new facilities and at least four more to come run by the government, the city also needs to attract the private sector and its top collections.
- Vancouver-born Canadian photographer Greg Girard shot Hong Kong cinema luminaries such as Wong Kar-wai and Chow Yun-fat on film sets in the 1980s
- Hong Kong’s M+ museum of visual culture is presenting a selection of these images together with a performance by post-punk band Gong Gong Gong in May
In Hong Kong, watching a film from a mile away has become another new normal – thanks to the M+ museum’s massive LED screen beaming out across Victoria Harbour every night
In collaboration with the French National Library, Hong Kong’s M+ museum of visual culture is hosting an exhibition of 280 powerful black-and-white photos, its first show dedicated to the medium.
Tai Kwun is an unrivalled heritage art space, TeamLab: Continuous and Florentijn Hofman’s Rubber Duck transformed Victoria Harbour, while the West Kowloon waterfront has hosted anthropomorphic grapes
TeamLab has scattered giant light-emitting ovoids from Tamar Park into the harbour, while the Hong Kong Heritage Museum has a sculpture exhibition that brings to life characters from Jin Yong’s novels
Arts leaders from around the world earlier attend International Cultural Summit, where 21 memorandums of understanding on exchanges and cooperation signed.
West Kowloon Cultural District Authority CEO Betty Fung says summit has helped to promote city’s arts hub on global stage.
Chinese filmmaker and painter Yang Fudong explains the premise of his latest film, showing on the giant M+ facade, and why ‘abundant’ Hong Kong makes it the ideal city in which to shoot artistic movies.
Viewing art can produce the same feeling as falling in love – and it is one of many reasons you should go gallery-hopping, say experts. Take advantage of Hong Kong Art Week to see as much art as you can.
Arts precinct authority chief Henry Tang appeals to government for decision on proposed funding plan soon.
The focus of Art Basel Hong Kong 2024, which will feature 243 galleries, will be on young people who are ‘now taking power’ and educating older generations on how to collect art, the fair’s director says.
American visual artist Sarah Morris’ new film ‘ETC’ – which is being screened on the facade of M+ until March 17 – displays her unique artistic language in offering an outsider’s depiction of Hong Kong.
Arts hub chief says delay is partly due to challenges of building three separate theatres of different sizes in the venue simultaneously.
Museum chiefs from Britain, France, Japan and Qatar among 1,000 participants expected at major meeting.
A new exhibition at Hong Kong’s M+ museum aims to expand the notion of shanshui – East Asian ink landscape paintings – and bring it to ‘the level of our contemporary world’.
A body representing Hong Kong filmmakers expresses surprise after the city’s film censors, according to a source, required M+ museum to remove the name of a 1993 Chinese film in order to show it.
Wang Tuo’s monumental video work ‘The Northeast Tetralogy’ saw the mainland Chinese artist clinch the prestigious Sigg Prize 2023 awarded by Hong Kong’s M+ museum of visual culture.
Japanese artist Ay-O’s work cannot help but draw a smile from viewers. Oozing colour, they show why he is called the ‘rainbow artist’. A first solo exhibition in Hong Kong of his work is opening at M+.
Flag carrier and arts hub announce three-year collaboration, with corporate backing welcomed by CEO of cash-strapped West Kowloon Cultural District.
Readers discuss recognising the long-term economic and social benefits of cultural funding, and how to increase enjoyment of museum free days.
The latest media artwork to appear on Hong Kong’s M+ museum facade is made from scanned images and objects from the private archives of Indonesian artist collective Tromarama and their families.
Readers discuss the second exhibition of works from a renowned collection of contemporary Chinese art at Hong Kong’s museum of visual culture, and how the city can take its promotional efforts to the next level.
Hong Kong museum’s second display of Chinese art from the Sigg Collection cannot be divorced from the context of its creation in the 1990s, a transformative decade in China.
Ai’s A Ton of Tea, a cube-shaped sculpture of tea leaves and wood and to go on show at M+ museum, was created to highlight the drink’s major role in Chinese culture.
From Odette at the National Gallery Singapore to Mosu at Hong Kong’s M+ museum and Pastel at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, these restaurants use plates as canvases for their masterpieces.
