Hong Kong authorities have increasingly become subservient to the Chinese mainland. Recently they are targeting art deemed critical of China and the argument is that such art is “insult to the country”.

By The Bharat Express News:

With its multibillion-dollar prize and renowned artists, M +, the museum that stands on Victoria Harbor, was meant to embody Hong Kong’s ambitions to become a global cultural center. It was to be the city’s first world-class art museum, proof that Hong Kong could do high culture as well as finance.

Rather, [the museum] could become a symbol of how the Chinese Communist Party is muzzling the art world of Hong Kong.

In recent days, the museum, which is slated to open later this year, has come under fierce attacks from pro-Beijing politicians in the city. Public newspapers denounced the museum’s collection, which houses important works of contemporary Chinese art, including some by dissident artist Ai Weiwei. Hong Kong’s chief executive has vowed to be on “full alert” after a lawmaker called some works “an insult to the country.”

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