Asian Avant-Garde Film Festival Returns to M+
Noise-punks David Boring, experimental filmmakers Roger Garcia and Takashi Ito, plus visual artists Xu Bing and Rirkrit Tiravanija all feature at M+ museum’s 2026 Asian Avant-Garde Film Festival...
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Tobias Berger Strikes Gold: Inside Hong Kong’s Latest Cultural Space
The veteran has big plans for Serakai Studio's new ground-floor space in Wong Chuk Hang, which is as much a salon as a gallery...
Is the West Kowloon Cultural District Too Big to Fail?
WestK’s new leader addresses recent controversies — while making the case that Hong Kong can’t afford to let the cultural district fail...
M+ Goes Overseas to Explore Communist Chinese Architecture
A new show in collaboration with the Canadian Centre for Architecture is a surprisingly engaging take on an overlooked period in Chinese architecture...
Neon Is Not Dead: The Future of a Hong Kong Icon
Discover the story of Hong Kong neon in the second Zolima Culture Guide. Support the book on Kickstarter and help the glow live on....
Avant-Garde Film Takes Over M+
The Asian Avant-Garde Film Festival 2025 brings performance art together with seminal films and newly-commissioned works...
What’s Behind the Giant AI Video Artwork on the M+ Façade
Singaporean artist Ho Tzu Nyen’s “Night Charades” is the latest in an exploration of myth, history and image-making...
Performance as Sculpture: Inside Florence Lam’s Art
How the Hong Kong artist creates keenly felt, improvised works of art ...
How Top Chinese Designer Guo Pei is Preserving Traditional Crafts
An early fascination with imperial-era embroidery laid the foundations for an international career in fashion...
A Groundbreaking Exhibition Reveals the Many Layers of I.M. Pei
After years of research, M+ museum has unveiled the world’s first retrospective exhibition on Chinese-American architect I.M. Pei...
Movana Chen’s Body Containers Are Breaking Down Borders
The Hong Kong artist, known for knitting and weaving with paper, has embarked on a peripatetic mission to explore the boundaries between people...
The Steiner Series: The Problem With East Meets West
An oft-repeated cliché about Hong Kong finds its way into the work of a master graphic designer...
Meet the Six Artists in the Running for the 2023 Sigg Prize
Six artists from Hong Kong and mainland China are competing for the prestigious Sigg Prize – and you can see their works at M+ right now...
Is Hong Kong Still Asia’s Art Hub? Yes, Says Art Basel’s New Hong Kong Director
When Angelle Siyang-Le moved to Hong Kong from Dubai in November 2012, the taxi driver who picked her up at the airport told her that she’d come to the wrong place. “He asked me what I was doing in Hong Kong and I said that I work in the art industry,” Siyang-Le recalls. “He said […]...
Yayoi Kusama’s Art of Healing
Yayoi Kusama’s extraordinarily long and complex career has been a constant process of healing and connection...
M+ Cinema Offers a Haven for Hong Kong Film, Video and Art
Moving image finally gets a permanent home in Hong Kong’s museum of visual culture...
Hong Kong’s Industrial Objects: Red Market Lamps
Red plastic lampshades are ubiquitous on Hong Kong's streets – and they've become a symbol of the city itself...
Is Art More Meaningful When It’s In Public?
Art Basel Hong Kong is marking its 10th anniversary in a city whose approach to public art has been transformed...
The Space Between: Zao Wou-Ki’s Life and Work
Few artists were able to bridge Western and Chinese traditions as much as Zao Wou-Ki, whose visit to Hong Kong changed his life....
Hong Kong’s Skyline Icons: M+, the Museum Made to Order
M+ is finally open, and it enjoys a rare position among world institutions: a massive new building designed in collaboration with its own curators ...
Inside the Art Collection William and Lavina Lim Are Donating to M+
An important collection of art will soon find new life at M+....
What the M+ Archigram Archive Means for Hong Kong
Hong Kong’s museum of visual culture is beginning to explore the archive of an influential British architecture collective....
Hong Kong’s Industrial History, Part X: How Plastic Flowers Built a Global Metropolis
Hong Kong once made plastic products that were shipped around the world. What's left of that history?...
What’s Happening With M+? An Update on Hong Kong’s Museum of Visual Culture
A museum with global ambitions is finally on track to open in Hong Kong. ...
Can Art Truly Thrive in Hyper-Commercial Hong Kong?
With a spate of new galleries, museums and other art spaces opening, what does the future hold for Hong Kong art in Hong Kong?...
Ambivalence and Dissonance in Four Zany Rooms: Samson Young’s Songs for Disaster Relief at M+
Hong Kong artist Samson Young’s multi-sensory mind map is as strange as it is brilliant. ...
Hong Kong, 20 Years After the Handover, Part II: Uncharted Territory
A new series from Penguin Books takes the pulse of Hong Kong 20 years after the handover. For Magnus Renfrew, that means a concise look at the city's potential as an art capital....
Wilson Shieh’s Gender-Bending Skyscraper Women
Renowned for his cheeky ink paintings, Wilson Shieh uses a venerable Chinese form of art to comment on contemporary Hong Kong....
How a Rice Cooker Found Its Way Into M+ Museum’s Important New Design Collection
M+ Museum's inaugural design exhibition, Shifting Objectives, is a window into curator Aric Chen's efforts to build a design collection that bridges the mundane and the extraordinary....