Hong Kong’s museum of visual culture has opened, after much delay and controversy, in a city much changed since its conception. Whether it can fulfil its global ambitions and satisfy Beijing remains to be seen.
Ai Weiwei’s whitewashed Neolithic pots that ask a question about history, Antony Gormley’s field of clay figures among the pick of exhibits in M+ museum shows.
Designed in the 1980s by legendary Japanese architect Shiro Kuramata, the Kiyotomo sushi bar, dismantled and transported from Tokyo, is among the most unexpected exhibits at new Hong Kong museum.
As an addition to Hong Kong’s tourism portfolio, M+ will probably be a hit – but given travel restrictions and national security law concerns, it may not put the city on the cultural tourism map as firmly as once hoped.
Tsang Tsou-choi, some of whose graffiti graces Hong Kong’s new M+ museum, was eccentric, but he had nothing on Ni Zan, a 14th century Chinese landscape artist.
Hong Kong has seen a reported 90,000 people leave in the past year, and the dance production looks at the issues surrounding people’s decisions to stay or go.
Hong Kong’s language-based neon art and graffiti are fast disappearing, but 4,000 pieces have been given a home in the city’s newly opened M+ museum.
The idea for the West Kowloon Cultural District was revealed in 1999. Norman Foster won a design competition for the arts hub, but his plan was scrapped in 2006 as too expensive.
Comprehensive, unwieldy and chaotic, the catalogue of the vast Sigg Collection details the works held at M+ while trying to avoid presenting them as a canon of contemporary Chinese art.
The Hong Kong photographer tells Kate Whitehead about growing up in Africa, hard times at school, finding his passion for photography and how living in the moment informs his art.
Private museums, their curations reflecting the interests of their patrons, blazed a trail across 19th century Asia for the publicly funded ones that followed – like the one at Hong Kong’s first City Hall, opened in 1869.
Norway is known for its fjords and mountains, but its capital hasn’t stood out - until now: Oslo is forging a new identity as a destination for cultural tourists.
Memorabilia of musical and movie stars grace new museums in Los Angeles and Nashville, treasures of ancient Egypt have a new home and with M+ opening, Asia has three new art mega-museums.
When the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo closed during the pandemic, a digital programme was created to connect artists with viewers – they contributed recipes for a cookbook.
Korean chef Sung Anh, who is opening a branch of his two-Michelin-star Mosu Seoul restaurant at M+ museum, tells Bernice Chan why simple dishes are the hardest to make, and about the importance of seaweed.
