The M+ Museum, which cost more than 6 billion yuan to build and spend more than 1.2 billion yuan to purchase its collections, will officially open this Friday (November 12), which is expected to set the cornerstone for the long-term development of local culture.
A successful world-class cultural district needs time to immerse and develop. One of the main reference objects of M+ is the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. It started with nine selected collections, and it took more than two decades to expand to the current collection of more than 200,000. , Which includes painting, sculpture, photography, commercial design, and even installation art.
If M+ is positioned to become the next Western-style modern art museum, it will only waste the true characteristics of Hong Kong. A more suitable direction for M+ should be to build a taste for our city, re-construct the value of "beauty", and then expand Hong Kong’s own positioning and consolidate Relations with China and even Asian art and literature circles.
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Andy Warhol once said: "In the future, everyone can be famous for 15 minutes." It is of course not difficult for M+ to gain a reputation for money, but if it wants to become an eternal classic, the SAR government must have a long-term development mindset, and Apply to M+ and the entire West Kowloon Cultural District.
The preparation of M+ has been expensive for many years, and it has been questioned by the society as a great white elephant project. However, M+ is like any work of art, and it is difficult to measure its potential value from the perspective of economic cost.
Now that the hardware facilities are complete, the next step may be to think about how to make good use of these facilities to illustrate a story starting from Hong Kong.
When art workers are willing to work hard in the cultural desert of Hong Kong, if the government hopes to do a good job in Hong Kong’s cultural work, it should provide more support to the industry. If it is willing to spend huge sums of money to purchase valuable exhibits, why not mobilize funds for construction A more friendly art development space?
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