Hong Kong’s artistic freedoms were being tightened in Beijing
When pro-Hong Kong Chinese characters began to wonder what kind of art should be allowed in the city’s new M + Visual Culture Museum, it revealed a growing rift between artistic freedoms and territorial state censorship.
These tensions, which arose after the city imposed a tough national security law last year, will be further tested when one of the world’s largest art fairs returns to Hong Kong on Friday. More than ever, the territory’s former free cultural community is being covered in Beijing, critics say.
“M +, Art Basel and many international art names have opened galleries in Hong Kong, but all of that was before this new national security law,” he said. Ai Weiwei, The most famous Chinese dissident artist, and his works were exhibited this year at the M + gallery on the seafront in Kowloon.
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