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M+ Museum in Hong Kong by Herzog & de Meuron sits at the center of reclaimed bay land that has been entrenched in political controversy.
AT A SPECIAL PREVIEW EVENING FOR M+, local artists and patrons—and some internationals who had abided Hong Kong’s rigorous quarantine measures—cautiously entered the Brutalist-style building, at 700,000 square feet one of the largest contemporary art museums in the world.The museum has weathered criticism from its inception, dating back to a 1998 proposal for a cultural district complete with sites dedicated to visual and performing arts. In the 2000s, Hong Kong was unfairly stuck with the label of “cultural desert” despite the presence of a robust modern art scene there since the 19...
AT A SPECIAL PREVIEW EVENING FOR M+, local artists and patrons—and some internationals who had abided Hong Kong’s rigorous quarantine measures—cautiously entered the Brutalist-style building, at 700,000 square feet one of the largest contemporary art museums in the world.The museum has weathered criticism from its inception, dating back to a 1998 proposal for a cultural district complete with sites dedicated to visual and performing arts. In the 2000s, Hong Kong was unfairly stuck with the label of “cultural desert” despite the presence of a robust modern art scene there since the 19...
The M+building viewed from the Art Park. Photo: Virgile Simon Bertrand. Courtesy Herzog & de Meuron. Building has finished at M+, an ambitious new museum of contemporary Asian visual culture located in Hong Kong's West Kowloon Cultural District. 'Our opening preparations are in full swing,' said Suhanya Raffel, Museum Director at M+, where the installation of works is now underway. Initially slated to open in 2017, the museum faced numerous construction and bureaucratic delays and will now open late this year. Over a million people attended the 85 public activities M+ has organised since 2012...