A visitor walks past an art piece of Chinese painter Zhang Xiaogang (left) and a silkscreen of 'Portrait Of Chairman Mao Zedong' by American artist Andy Warhol during an exhibition preview at the Hong Kong Museum of Art. Photo: AFP
After successfully muzzling Hong Kong's democracy protests and opposition, Beijing's loyalists are now taking aim at the arts as they seek to impose mainland-style orthodoxy on culture and purge the city of dissent.
Newly built on Hong Kong's Victoria Harbour, M+ Museum aims to rival Western contemporary heavyweights like London's Tate Modern and New York's MoMA.
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