The Dark Side of Artistic Ambition: When Museums Forget Their Roots The controversy surrounding M+, Hong Kong's premier museum of visual culture, has been making headlines in recent weeks.
While the row over mahjong nights and cancelled performances by local singer songwriters may have garnered attention, a more insidious issue has been plaguing the institution – and its sister museum, the Hong Kong Museum of Art (HKMoA) – for far too long.
Both museums have shown a chronic reluctance to mount major solo exhibitions for living contemporary artists from Hong Kong.