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 1960s, and
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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 while waiting for the building to be completed.