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People install artworks within a white-walled gallery space.
People install artworks within a white-walled gallery space.
Fly through M+
Monochrome animation still showing a man in a construction hat and vest walking along accordion-like expandable columns.
How to Build a Museum: Episode 4
Photograph showing a busy street corner. Above the street is a green, orange and yellow neon sign advertising ‘GOLDEN COMPUTER CENTRE’ in Chinese and English. The signs are attached to a tenement-style building. Cars wait at a stoplight outside the building, and people cross the street.
Region Locking Really Hertz
Video tour of the M+ building.
First Look: Inside the M+ Building
People install artworks within a white-walled gallery space.
Fly through M+
Monochrome animation still showing a man in a construction hat and vest walking along accordion-like expandable columns.
How to Build a Museum: Episode 4
Photograph showing a busy street corner. Above the street is a green, orange and yellow neon sign advertising ‘GOLDEN COMPUTER CENTRE’ in Chinese and English. The signs are attached to a tenement-style building. Cars wait at a stoplight outside the building, and people cross the street.
Region Locking Really Hertz
Video tour of the M+ building.
First Look: Inside the M+ Building
A woman wearing a face mask and gloves bends over and looks intently at a large photograph on a table. Both hands are on the photograph, as if she is adjusting its positioning.
A woman wearing a face mask and gloves bends over and looks intently at a large photograph on a table. Both hands are on the photograph, as if she is adjusting its positioning.

Anatomy of a Photograph

Conservator Marta García Celma zooms in on the the challenges and thrills of photo conservation at M+
16 mins: 
Visual Art  /  Article
A man in white shirt and shorts runs between three rows of cars stopped in traffic. HIs arms are raised above his head in a 'V' shape.
A man in white shirt and shorts runs between three rows of cars stopped in traffic. HIs arms are raised above his head in a 'V' shape.

Expression Beyond Documentation: Japanese Post-War Photography

M+ Associate Curator Isabella Tam examines the changes in Japan’s post-war photography through the works of Hirata Minoru, Anzai Shigeo, and Hikosaki Naoyoshi.
9 mins: 
Visual Art  /  Article

Leung Mee-ping: Material Meaning

Leung Mee-ping on her practice of collecting everyday materials in the community and repurposing them into art
13 mins: 
Visual Art  /  Video
Photograph showing two people in multi-coloured, skin-tight body suits standing serenely against a two-toned purple and blue background.
Photograph showing two people in multi-coloured, skin-tight body suits standing serenely against a two-toned purple and blue background.

Web Design Is Visual Culture

Designers Anton & Irene share how they created a website for M+ that is as vibrant and distinctive as Hong Kong itself
10 mins: 
Design and Architecture  /  Article
A photograph of a man's hand holding a piece of clay rolled up into a ball.
A photograph of a man's hand holding a piece of clay rolled up into a ball.

The Beauty and Craft of Terracotta Manufacturing

An inside look at the beauty and craft behind the manufacturing process of the M+ building’s facade tiles in Florence, Italy
7 mins: 
Design and Architecture  /  Video

Ongoing Series

Commissioned stories exploring the diverse historical moments, geographic locations, and intellectual constellations of cultural production.
Visual Culture Questionnaire

Visual Culture Questionnaire

In 1996, the journal October published the Visual Culture Questionnaire. This questionnaire is now being republished in both Chinese and English by M+.

Visual Culture Questionnaire

In 1996, the journal October published the Visual Culture Questionnaire. This questionnaire is now being republished in both Chinese and English by M+.

Visual Culture

Visual Culture

An exploration of the the wide and sometimes contested field of visual culture.

Visual Culture

An exploration of the the wide and sometimes contested field of visual culture.

Objects

Objects

A look at the object across visual culture, from architecture to artefact, exploring how objects represent histories, geographies, and realties.

Objects

A look at the object across visual culture, from architecture to artefact, exploring how objects represent histories, geographies, and realties.

Geographies

Geographies

A focus its on geographies across space and time. What does it mean to think cartographically in the 21st century?

Geographies

A focus its on geographies across space and time. What does it mean to think cartographically in the 21st century?

Visual Culture Questionnaire

Visual Culture Questionnaire

In 1996, the journal October published the Visual Culture Questionnaire. This questionnaire is now being republished in both Chinese and English by M+.

Visual Culture Questionnaire

In 1996, the journal October published the Visual Culture Questionnaire. This questionnaire is now being republished in both Chinese and English by M+.

Visual Culture

Visual Culture

An exploration of the the wide and sometimes contested field of visual culture.

Visual Culture

An exploration of the the wide and sometimes contested field of visual culture.

Objects

Objects

A look at the object across visual culture, from architecture to artefact, exploring how objects represent histories, geographies, and realties.

Objects

A look at the object across visual culture, from architecture to artefact, exploring how objects represent histories, geographies, and realties.

Geographies

Geographies

A focus its on geographies across space and time. What does it mean to think cartographically in the 21st century?

Geographies

A focus its on geographies across space and time. What does it mean to think cartographically in the 21st century?

Focus on Photography

Monochrome photograph of two women dressed in cheongsams and high heels walking next to each other down a street. We view them from behind. Pillars with Chinese lettering line the street on their left, and shop fronts are seen on their right. A small group of men are gathered further down the street.
Monochrome photograph of two women dressed in cheongsams and high heels walking next to each other down a street. We view them from behind. Pillars with Chinese lettering line the street on their left, and shop fronts are seen on their right. A small group of men are gathered further down the street.

From the Collections: ‘Two Women (Gloucester Road, 1961)’ by Yau Leung

'Two Women (Gloucester Road, 1961)' by Yau Leung is in the M+ Collections, but what is it and who made it?
5 mins: 
Visual Art  /  Article
Three colour prints side by side. The image on the far left depicts an English Springer Spaniel dog viewed in profile, staring upwards, in front of an old-fashioned harbour with wooden boats and mountains in the distance. The middle image depicts a large pink tropical flower displayed over a background of Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour under a blue sky. The image on the far right depicts a woman wearing a tiara, pearl necklace, white dress, and blue sash with royal medals on it. Behind her is a historical Chinese painting of horse riders in a grassy field. The woman has a tattoo of one of the horse riders on her shoulder. Fine cracks appear across all three works, imitating the surface of an old oil painting.
Three colour prints side by side. The image on the far left depicts an English Springer Spaniel dog viewed in profile, staring upwards, in front of an old-fashioned harbour with wooden boats and mountains in the distance. The middle image depicts a large pink tropical flower displayed over a background of Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour under a blue sky. The image on the far right depicts a woman wearing a tiara, pearl necklace, white dress, and blue sash with royal medals on it. Behind her is a historical Chinese painting of horse riders in a grassy field. The woman has a tattoo of one of the horse riders on her shoulder. Fine cracks appear across all three works, imitating the surface of an old oil painting.

The Hollian Thesaurus: A Piece of Hong Kong Photography History

Holly Lee’s Hollian Thesaurus is a cross-section of Hong Kong art history, musing on the past and future of 1990s Hong Kong
4 mins: 
Visual Art  /  Article
Monochrome photograph depicting a man carrying a basket on a stick slung over his shoulder. He is dressed in casual working clothes. He is walking in front of a large stone wall, on which rectangular light-coloured patches forming random patterns stick out against the dark grey of the stone.
Monochrome photograph depicting a man carrying a basket on a stick slung over his shoulder. He is dressed in casual working clothes. He is walking in front of a large stone wall, on which rectangular light-coloured patches forming random patterns stick out against the dark grey of the stone.

10 Facts about the Photographer Who Captured 1950s and ‘60s Hong Kong

Fan Ho's striking black-and-white photographs captured aspects of everyday life in 1950s and ’60s Hong Kong, providing a unique window into the past
10 mins: 
Visual Art  /  Article
A Polaroid photo of a young woman wearing fashionable sunglasses posing for the camera with her arms crossed. The Polaroid shows signs of age.
A Polaroid photo of a young woman wearing fashionable sunglasses posing for the camera with her arms crossed. The Polaroid shows signs of age.

Wong Wo Bik’s Daring and Beautiful Polaroids

A look back at Hong Kong photographer Wong Wo Bik’s intimate Polaroid series from the 1980s
4 mins: 
Visual Art  /  Article
Photograph of a block of pink and grey-green Hong Kong high rise buildings, captured so that they completely fill the frame. The small rows of windows appear dizzying in their vast numbers.
Photograph of a block of pink and grey-green Hong Kong high rise buildings, captured so that they completely fill the frame. The small rows of windows appear dizzying in their vast numbers.

From High-Rises to the Street: A Look Back at Michael Wolf’s Photographs

Blues Wong pays tribute to the late photographer Michael Wolf and his depictions of urban life in Hong Kong and Asia
7 mins: 
Visual Art  /  Article

Kiri Dalena: ‘Erased Slogans’

Artist Kiri Dalena discusses the activism behind her work 'Erased Slogans', based on digitally altered archival images of protests in 1970s Manila
4 mins: 
Visual Art  /  Video

Making Hong Kong

A playground situated next to a hillside and near a road surrounded by buildings. Multiple sculptural climbing structures are visible. There are clusters of coloured concrete cylinders and half-cylinders stacked on top of each other in different combinations, a group of standing and lying red and yellow poles thick enough to climb, and large curved white sheets of concrete. A red, white, and yellow slide structure made out of curved, bulbous shapes sits in the middle of a large sandpit. Large red, green, and white abstract patterns are painted on the neighbouring hillside, running down it to join the playground.

A Brief History of Playgrounds in Hong Kong

5 mins: 
Design and Architecture / Article

A Brief History of Playgrounds in Hong Kong

Two people wrapped in blankets lie next to each other on their stomachs on a rock, both facing a body of water. One of them has their arm around the other.

Ten Hong Kong Films You Might Have Missed

8 mins: 
Moving Image / Article

Ten Hong Kong Films You Might Have Missed

An image in two halves. On the left is a black and white photo of Henry Steiner sitting at a desk reviewing design collateral. On the right is a colour photo of a magazine stack with a pair of glasses resting on top.

Unboxing Henry Steiner’s Design Archive

8 mins: 
Design and Architecture / Video

Unboxing Henry Steiner’s Design Archive

Photograph of a round fountain inside a building with a gold-coloured abstract sculpture in the middle. People are sitting on the edge of the fountain. A large concrete staircase rises above the fountain in a circular pattern.

Digging into the Hong Kong Architecture Archives of Wong Tung & Partners

11 mins: 
Design and Architecture / Article

Digging into the Hong Kong Architecture Archives of Wong Tung & Partners

Video game still of a person sitting on a motorbike with their back towards us. In front of them is an urban landscape in a rainy, dusky atmosphere. The street is lit up by neon signs showing Chinese lettering, and a red Hong Kong taxi is seen driving.

Why Is Hong Kong Such a Popular Video Game Location?

6 mins: 
Digital / Article

Why Is Hong Kong Such a Popular Video Game Location?

A large, empty room with walls covered in projections of numerous short phrases of text.

Out of the Shadows and Into the Sunshine

8 mins: 
Critique / Article

Out of the Shadows and Into the Sunshine

Photograph of a long, grey rectangular building. The concrete walls are tilted inward, and each of the two visible storeys are lined with yellow-framed windows. In the foreground is a tiled walk way, steps, a raid railing and a yellow lamp post. Two schoolgirls in blue sleeveless dress uniforms stand by the lamp post chatting; one has her arm draped over the red railing. Two other girls sit further back on the ground by the building; a boy is approaching the foreground.

In Search of Hong Kong Brutalism

17 mins: 
Design and Architecture / Article

In Search of Hong Kong Brutalism

A playground situated next to a hillside and near a road surrounded by buildings. Multiple sculptural climbing structures are visible. There are clusters of coloured concrete cylinders and half-cylinders stacked on top of each other in different combinations, a group of standing and lying red and yellow poles thick enough to climb, and large curved white sheets of concrete. A red, white, and yellow slide structure made out of curved, bulbous shapes sits in the middle of a large sandpit. Large red, green, and white abstract patterns are painted on the neighbouring hillside, running down it to join the playground.

A Brief History of Playgrounds in Hong Kong

5 mins: 
Design and Architecture / Article

A Brief History of Playgrounds in Hong Kong

Two people wrapped in blankets lie next to each other on their stomachs on a rock, both facing a body of water. One of them has their arm around the other.

Ten Hong Kong Films You Might Have Missed

8 mins: 
Moving Image / Article

Ten Hong Kong Films You Might Have Missed

An image in two halves. On the left is a black and white photo of Henry Steiner sitting at a desk reviewing design collateral. On the right is a colour photo of a magazine stack with a pair of glasses resting on top.

Unboxing Henry Steiner’s Design Archive

8 mins: 
Design and Architecture / Video

Unboxing Henry Steiner’s Design Archive

Photograph of a round fountain inside a building with a gold-coloured abstract sculpture in the middle. People are sitting on the edge of the fountain. A large concrete staircase rises above the fountain in a circular pattern.

Digging into the Hong Kong Architecture Archives of Wong Tung & Partners

11 mins: 
Design and Architecture / Article

Digging into the Hong Kong Architecture Archives of Wong Tung & Partners

Video game still of a person sitting on a motorbike with their back towards us. In front of them is an urban landscape in a rainy, dusky atmosphere. The street is lit up by neon signs showing Chinese lettering, and a red Hong Kong taxi is seen driving.

Why Is Hong Kong Such a Popular Video Game Location?

6 mins: 
Digital / Article

Why Is Hong Kong Such a Popular Video Game Location?

A large, empty room with walls covered in projections of numerous short phrases of text.

Out of the Shadows and Into the Sunshine

8 mins: 
Critique / Article

Out of the Shadows and Into the Sunshine

Photograph of a long, grey rectangular building. The concrete walls are tilted inward, and each of the two visible storeys are lined with yellow-framed windows. In the foreground is a tiled walk way, steps, a raid railing and a yellow lamp post. Two schoolgirls in blue sleeveless dress uniforms stand by the lamp post chatting; one has her arm draped over the red railing. Two other girls sit further back on the ground by the building; a boy is approaching the foreground.

In Search of Hong Kong Brutalism

17 mins: 
Design and Architecture / Article

In Search of Hong Kong Brutalism

Behind the Scenes

A woman leans over a rolled up section of a large ink artwork on paper. She places a white strip onto the middle of the artwork where it’s been unrolled, next to other white strips weighted down by small weights.
A woman leans over a rolled up section of a large ink artwork on paper. She places a white strip onto the middle of the artwork where it’s been unrolled, next to other white strips weighted down by small weights.

Back to the Past to Conserve a Work of Contemporary Calligraphy

M+ Paper Conservator Jo-Fan Huang explains how the team worked on one of the largest works in the M+ Collections, using both modern and historical tools
7 mins: 
Behind the Scenes  /  Article
Construction workers on a yellow elevated stand working on a neon sign in a street under a blue sky. The neon sign is in the shape of a cow. The words ‘Sammy’s Kitchen Ltd.’ in green English and red Chinese lettering are displayed inside the cow.
Construction workers on a yellow elevated stand working on a neon sign in a street under a blue sky. The neon sign is in the shape of a cow. The words ‘Sammy’s Kitchen Ltd.’ in green English and red Chinese lettering are displayed inside the cow.

Collecting Neon Signs from Hong Kong’s Streets

Two M+ team members discuss their challenging but exciting experiences collecting neon signs from Hong Kong’s streets
9 mins: 
Behind the Scenes  /  Article
Two people stand in front of a large flat artwork consisting of thousands of used teabags sewn together. The person on the left is brandishing a small paintbrush, hovering it over the work.
Two people stand in front of a large flat artwork consisting of thousands of used teabags sewn together. The person on the left is brandishing a small paintbrush, hovering it over the work.

How Do You Conserve an Artwork Made Out of Teabags?

Three M+ conservators discuss how they conserved a work made out of thousands of used teabags stitched together.
8 mins: 
Behind the Scenes  /  Article
Photograph of two men handling a sculpture in a gallery space. The visible part of the sculpture has a weathered, patina finish and features a man's head attached to a body with angel wings; in the place of arms is a circular device with 10 holes. One man is handling the sculpture's wings with gloved hands; the other is screwing something into the platform.
Photograph of two men handling a sculpture in a gallery space. The visible part of the sculpture has a weathered, patina finish and features a man's head attached to a body with angel wings; in the place of arms is a circular device with 10 holes. One man is handling the sculpture's wings with gloved hands; the other is screwing something into the platform.

From Forklifts to Finishing Touches

Kieran Champion, Senior Manager of Installation and Displays at M+, speaks about the art of installing precious objects and artworks
9 mins: 
Behind the Scenes  /  Article
Six flower vases stand in a row on a white surface. Each vase consists of a cube-shaped transparent glass base and a long, curved tube sticking up from the cube. Four of the vases have transparent tubes, while one has a bright blue and one has a purple tube. Each vase has a rose sticking out of it. A colour checker displaying a palette with multiple squares of different colours sits next to the vases.
Six flower vases stand in a row on a white surface. Each vase consists of a cube-shaped transparent glass base and a long, curved tube sticking up from the cube. Four of the vases have transparent tubes, while one has a bright blue and one has a purple tube. Each vase has a rose sticking out of it. A colour checker displaying a palette with multiple squares of different colours sits next to the vases.

How Do Museums Photograph Objects?

A museum’s process of photography is involved, especially when the museum building isn’t finished yet. Learn about the unique digitisation process at M+.
8 mins: 
Behind the Scenes  /  Article
A woman wearing a black headband magnifier holds a small paintbrush and is painting onto a painting on canvas.
A woman wearing a black headband magnifier holds a small paintbrush and is painting onto a painting on canvas.

Conserving Ink Art for 'The Weight of Lightness: Ink Art at M+'

Get a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the conservation process behind 'The Weight of Lightness: Ink Art at M+' with conservators Jo-Fan Huang and Karina Jagudina.
9 mins: 
Visual Art  /  Article

Editor's Picks

A still image excerpt from an animation depicting a male character wearing glasses.
A still image excerpt from an animation depicting a male character wearing glasses.

Wong Ping: Animating the Absurd

Artist Wong Ping reflects on his vivid animations and his love-hate relationship with Hong Kong
5 mins: 
Moving Image  /  Video
A video in which black text flashes rapidly on a white background, with two strips of black on the top and bottom. On the top black strip, green text in Korean flashed across the screen, while green text in English flashes across the bottom black strip. All three sets of text move across the screen at the same pace. Each one tells a separate story, creating three simultaneous narrative as one watches the video.
A video in which black text flashes rapidly on a white background, with two strips of black on the top and bottom. On the top black strip, green text in Korean flashed across the screen, while green text in English flashes across the bottom black strip. All three sets of text move across the screen at the same pace. Each one tells a separate story, creating three simultaneous narrative as one watches the video.

Why M+ Acquired YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES’ Entire Body of Work

In late 2016, M+ acquired artist’s proof 2 of 2 of the entire body of work of the artist duo YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES. Here's what, how, and why
10 mins: 
Moving Image  /  Article

Unbox M+

Two objects. The one on the left is a red walkman with the words 'my first Sony' emblazoned on the front. The object on the right is a colourful toy-like radio with a label reading 'ROBO for curious kids' over the speaker.

Unboxing My First Sony and Sanyo ROBO

8 mins: 
Design and Architecture / Video

Unboxing My First Sony and Sanyo ROBO

Artist's Lens

A man in a blue shirt stands in a blue-tiled MTR station in Hong Kong.
A man in a blue shirt stands in a blue-tiled MTR station in Hong Kong.

Pak Sheung Chuen: Measuring Time

Artist Pak Sheung Chuen takes us to two locations of his previous performances: the Kowloon Tong MTR station and a Hong Kong apartment building
6 mins: 
Visual Art  /  Video
Oil painting on canvas depicting a family portrait. Between a monochromatic woman and man is a diminutive girl with a yellow-tinted face, and a hovering toddler with a pink head. The subjects all stare at us, unsmiling.
Oil painting on canvas depicting a family portrait. Between a monochromatic woman and man is a diminutive girl with a yellow-tinted face, and a hovering toddler with a pink head. The subjects all stare at us, unsmiling.

Zhang Xiaogang: Bloodlines and Family

Artist Zhang Xiaogang discusses his seminal Bloodline Series, and how it was inspired by the discovery of an old family photo.
4 mins: 
Visual Art  /  Video

Tiffany Chung: Revealing History

Artist Tiffany Chung explains the story of Vietnamese refugees in Hong Kong behind her work 'flotsam and jetsam'
4 mins: 
Visual Art  /  Video

Tanaami Keiichi: A World of Collages

Artist Tanaami Keiichi explores his own memories: of his childhood, of his dreams, and, above all, of his hundreds of colourful and psychedelic collages
5 mins: 
Design and Architecture  /  Video

Shen Xin: Navigating Belief Systems

Artist Shen Xin discusses his work 'Provocation of the Nightingale', a multi-channel video installation that investigates different belief systems.
5 mins: 
Moving Image  /  Video

Sopheap Pich: Material as Identification

Artist Sopheap Pich discusses his practice of working with bamboo and rattan, and the story behind his work ‘Compound’ in M+ Collections.
4 mins: 
Visual Art  /  Video

Digital Commissions

'The Earth is an Image' by Xin Liu

2 mins: 
Digital / Interactives

'The Earth is an Image' by Xin Liu

Digital graphic still of green and blue mountains

‘hong kong artists, women’ by Shirley Wu

1 min: 
Digital / Interactives

‘hong kong artists, women’ by Shirley Wu

Close-up of the back of a young couple holding hands while walking towards the sea, with Cantonese lyrics on it.

'Canto Cocktail' by Henry Chu

1 min: 
Digital / Interactives

'Canto Cocktail' by Henry Chu

Digital animation still of several clusters of computer servers sitting on a flat grass lawn. They are cloaked with a piece of fabric with logos of various technology companies printed on it. There is a line of trees and spiral unicorn horns nearby.

'Hardcore Digital Detox' by Miao Ying

1 min: 
Digital / Interactives

'Hardcore Digital Detox' by Miao Ying

'The Earth is an Image' by Xin Liu

2 mins: 
Digital / Interactives

'The Earth is an Image' by Xin Liu

Digital graphic still of green and blue mountains

‘hong kong artists, women’ by Shirley Wu

1 min: 
Digital / Interactives

‘hong kong artists, women’ by Shirley Wu

Close-up of the back of a young couple holding hands while walking towards the sea, with Cantonese lyrics on it.

'Canto Cocktail' by Henry Chu

1 min: 
Digital / Interactives

'Canto Cocktail' by Henry Chu

Digital animation still of several clusters of computer servers sitting on a flat grass lawn. They are cloaked with a piece of fabric with logos of various technology companies printed on it. There is a line of trees and spiral unicorn horns nearby.

'Hardcore Digital Detox' by Miao Ying

1 min: 
Digital / Interactives

'Hardcore Digital Detox' by Miao Ying

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