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The M+ issue
This Post Magazine series marks the opening of M+ in November 2021. The museum of global visual culture has been compared to the MoMA in New York and Centre Pompidou in Paris, with a transnational focus on objects and histories that are relevant to Asia. The West Kowloon landmark is also seen as a barometer of artistic and curatorial freedom in Hong Kong following the introduction of a national security law.
Updated: 05 Jan, 2022
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For the world, and for Hong Kong too? M+ museum opens its doors
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.
12 Nov, 2021
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10 highlights of the opening shows at M+ museum in Hong Kong
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.
12 Nov, 2021
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Why a Tokyo sushi bar is a star exhibit at M+ museum in Hong Kong
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.
10 Nov, 2021
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Destinations Known | The M+ museum finally opens – but will it boost cultural tourism?
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.
10 Nov, 2021
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Reflections | Think the King of Kowloon was eccentric? Meet ancient China’s Ni Zan
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.
11 Nov, 2021
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Hong Kong dancers explore home and identity in Home Sweat Home
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.
11 Nov, 2021
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Language Matters | Hong Kong street art: where the words ‘neon’ and ‘graffiti’ came from
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.
12 Nov, 2021
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When West Kowloon Cultural District plans were launched, and what followed
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.
12 Nov, 2021
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Review | New thinking about the Chinese contemporary art at M+ collected by Uli Sigg
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.
14 Nov, 2021
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‘My camera became an extension of my hand’: John Fung on his photography
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.
13 Nov, 2021
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Then & Now | How museums arose in Asia and the man who lent them impetus in Hong Kong
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.
13 Nov, 2021
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Cocktails in a library, Munch’s The Scream x 3: cultural tourism in Oslo
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.
14 Nov, 2021
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From Louis Armstrong’s trumpet to the priciest Rolex, world’s new museums
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.
12 Nov, 2021
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Recipes by Ai Weiwei and other artists keep museum going during Covid-19
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.
15 Nov, 2021
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Profile | Korean chef on his ‘very simple’ food and the joy of being in Hong Kong
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.
16 Nov, 2021
