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Hong Kong's New M+ Art Museum Won't Show Ai Weiwei's Tiananmen Photo
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1:47Now PlayingHong Kong’s new M+ art museum will not show Chinese artist Ai Weiwei’s Tiananmen photo as it grapples with art under China’s national security law, says its chief administrator Henry Tang.
The new museum, pronounced "M plus," is supposed to be a venue for contemporary art to match the Pompidou Centre in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Tate in London, according to its chief administrator Henry Tang.
Now Tang is defending his museum's collection against attacks from legislator Eunice Yung and Hong Kong media that support the Chinese Communist Party.
The museum received a donation of a large amount of contemporary Chinese art from a Swiss collector, Uli Sigg.
Among Sigg's collection are artworks by prominent Chinese artist Ai Wei Wei.
Earlier this month, Yung suggested that artwork such as Ai's could be against the new national security law that Beijing imposed on Hong Kong last year.
Tang said the artwork that attracted the attention of Yung, which is called "Study of Perspective," features a series of photos of iconic buildings with a hand in the foreground and the middle finger raised.
"I will just reveal a small bit, that the curatorial process, we have never planned for that photograph to be included in the opening exhibition, so there is no question that we have retracted it, or we have succumbed to pressure and have changed it," Tang said Monday.
Tang is a former Hong Kong senior government official, famous for his wine collection.
Yung is a legislator for the New People's Party, and is not known to be an art expert, but she is known to be a supporter of the Hong Kong government and policies made by the Chinese Communist Party.
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