M+ Museum Pulls Three Politically Charged Works From Display, Spurring Speculation of Censorship
The museum said the removal of the works, one of which references the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, were part of a routine rehang.
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Rare North Korean Art Alights in Switzerland, Oldest Human Burial in Africa Discovered, and More: Morning Links from May 6, 2021
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M+ Museum to Launch $63,900 Sigg Prize in 2019
The inaugural award's shortlist will be released in March.
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Lars Nittve Steps Down as Executive Director of M+
Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Cultural District Authority announced today that, in January, Lars Nittve will step down from his position as executive director at M+, the hotly anticipated museum
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‘It Is Impossible to Simplify My Feelings About China’: Ai Weiwei on His Controversial Art, in 2006
With Ai Weiwei having recently received his passport after Chinese authorities held it for four years, we turn back to the October 2006 issue of ARTnews, in which Barbara Pollack spoke to the…
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The State of Hong Kong’s Art Scene
With the Occupy movement, 'the entire city is a work of art, and everyone is an artist'
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Herzog & de Meuron To Design Hong Kong’s M+
Hong Kong's long-delayed dream of a major museum for modern andcontemporary art has come a big step closer to realization. The Swissarchitectural firm Herzog & de Meuron, in conjunction with theLondon…
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Westerners and Easterners Alike Flock to Art Basel In Hong Kong
Art Basel in Hong Kong, formerly known as Art HK, is the place to go for East-meets-West-style work like Wu Di's Plaything (2013). The painting shows a monkey-headed human figure in Western…
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Sigg Collection Goes to Hong Kongs M
Ending years of speculation, the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority today announced that the Uli Sigg collection, the world's premier trove of contemporary Chinese art, will go to the M+ museu…
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Obama Might Reconsider Official Gift Policy
Imagine President Barack Obama visiting China and being "honored" by the gift of a Leroy Neiman painting of eight recent Chinese premiers—that's pretty much the effect that must have been created toda…
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