The Making of ‘Canton Modern’
What can images teach us about history? Join us at M+ on 30 August 2025 for a conversation on ‘Canton Modern: Art and Visual Culture, 1900s–1970s’ with scholars and curators.
What can images teach us about history? Can Socialist propaganda be considered contemporary art? Scholars from Guangzhou and Hong Kong will join M+ curators in a conversation considering Canton Modern: Art and Visual Culture, 1900s–1970s and the questions it raises from the perspectives of art history, cultural studies, and regional historiography. Learn about the making of the exhibition and reflect on what the postwar transformations of Cantonese cultural identity mean for Hong Kong today.
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