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M+ museum of visual culture
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.
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9 September, 2024
The government’s has allowed the arts hub to sell land for residential use to avert a financial crisis. Photo: Sam Tsang
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West Kowloon Cultural District to embark on residential project with new investment arm, as board member touts ‘open-minded’ approach.

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M+ museum will be bringing its current exhibition on the Chinese-American architect I.M. Pei to Qatar Museums in 2026. Photo: May Tse
Architecture and design

How Japan’s innovative Nakagin Capsule Tower is finding new life

The Tokyo structure’s dismantling in 2022 saw a number of its capsules repurposed globally – even at Hong Kong’s M+ – fulfilling designer Kisho Kurokawa’s vision.

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Rediscover the Chinese designer who dressed Beyoncé and Lady Gaga, with M+ at Night

Hong Kong’s leading art museum is coming alive after dark with Couture Rhapsody, a one-off collision of music, art and fashion themed around the blockbuster ‘Guo Pei: Fashioning Imagination’ exhibition.

Chinese fashion designer Guo Pei’s “L’Architecture collection” is showcased in “Guo Pei: Fashioning Imagination” exhibition held at the Main Hall Gallery of M+ Museum, West Kowloon Cultural District. Photo: Elson Li
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Bernard Chan speaks exclusively to the Post at Worldwide House, Central, on Thursday, days ahead of an M+ fundraising gala. Photo: Dickson Lee
Hong Kong culture

Opinion | Hong Kong must keep faith with West Kowloon Cultural District

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Families take part in a workshop at the WestK Fun Fest. If Hong Kong is prepared to use infrastructure bonds to fund major developmental projects like bridges, roads and entire islands, it should also come to the aid of West Kowloon Cultural District. Photo: West Kowloon Cultural District Authority
Art

Hong Kong ‘bike rides’ reveal a love letter in interactive M+ art project

As if playing a video game, visitors to museum ride a stationary bike through a virtual Hong Kong where Chinese characters replace buildings. Their progress is beamed to the public on museum’s facade.

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Patrons line up to enter M+ in the West Kowloon Cultural District. Photo: May Tse
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Hong Kong’s cash-strapped West Kowloon arts hub wins approval to sell land parcels

Premier arts hub given 10-year window for select lands and is expected to also use period to devise viable self-financing model.

The West Kowloon Cultural District is grappling with depleting funds. Photo: Sam Tsang
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Mong Kok residents painting a mural on the hoarding of a construction site for a new building late last year in a community art project by the non-profit Art In Place. Photo: Art In Place Hong Kong
Architecture and design

Curators, son on architect I.M. Pei’s ‘complicated’ Hong Kong retrospective

He never wanted a museum retrospective. He had donated his personal archive to the Library of Congress. So how did curators and his family change his mind? And what will we see at Hong Kong’s M+ museum?

Architecture and design

‘The a-ha moment’: Henry Steiner on his 60-plus years in Hong Kong design

The creator of logos for HSBC, the Hong Kong Jockey Club and Dairy Farm, and designer of Hong Kong banknotes, Henry Steiner, 90, talks about a show of his work at M+ museum and his 60-plus-year career.

Asian cinema

Yoko Ono, Bong Joon-ho works and much more in Hong Kong indie film festival

Artistic, unorthodox and independent are three of the words curator Silke Schmickl uses to describe what’s coming in the inaugural four-day Asian Avant-Garde Film Festival at the M+ museum in Hong Kong.

A still from Nick Deocampo’s Oliver (1983), part of the first Asian Avant-Garde Film Festival at the M+ Museum in Hong Kong, which tells the story of a gay female impersonator who stages a provocative performance of bondage and escape. Photo: Nick Deocampo
Hong Kong economy

Hong Kong’s West Kowloon arts hub ‘may partially close museums to help cut costs’

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The Post reported in March that the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority was waiting for a government decision on a proposed funding plan that involves selling part of the arts hub’s 40 hectares. Photo: Sam Tsang
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Chow Yun-fat and Cherie Chung film a scene in Tsim Sha Tsui for The Eighth Happiness in a photograph shot by Canadian Greg Girard. A collection of his 1980s Hong Kong film set photos will be presented in “Greg Girard: Hong Kong Made Me” at M+ museum. Photo: M+/Greg Girard
Explore Hong Kong

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The M+ Facade and museum in the West Kowloon Cultural District, framed on the right-hand side by Hong Kong’s tallest building, the International Commerce Centre. Photo: Shutterstock
Art

Black-and-white photography’s ‘enduring power’ in Hong Kong show

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.

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