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Pablo Picasso. Massacre in Korea, 1951, oil on plywood. ©GrandPalaisRmn (Musée national Picasso-Paris) / Mathieu Rabeau. © Succession Picasso 2024.

Picasso for Asia: A Conversation, and Lee Mingwei’s Guernica in Sand opening March 2025 at M+

Hong Kong
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Visual Art

Opening in March 2025, Picasso for Asia: A Conversation features an intergenerational dialogue between more than 60 of Picasso’s masterpieces from Musée national Picasso-Paris  and around 80 works by Asian and Asian-diasporic artists from the M+ Collections. This special exhibition is one of the largest and most ambitious exhibitions in M+, and is the first […]

A photograph of Robert Rauschenberg holding cameras in a rural setting surrounded by people, some wearing straw hats.

M+ To Spotlight Robert Rauschenberg’s Engagement with Asia

Hong Kong
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Visual Art

Opening November 2025, Robert Rauschenberg and Asia celebrates one of the most innovative and influential artists of the past century. The display marks the centennial of the artist’s birth, and will feature M+ Collections works by Rauschenberg and by Asian artists in dialogue with his practice. Robert Rauschenberg (American, 1925–2008) had a long association with […]

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Honoring I.M. Pei’s Global Legacy

Design & Architecture
Event Recap
Features
New York

Chinese American architect I.M. Pei is celebrated for his iconic structures in the United States, Greater China, and around the world. A major retrospective at M+ Museum, on view through January 5, 2025, has put Pei’s work at the center of renewed discussions about the legacy of twentieth-century architecture and urbanism in Asia and the […]

A New York Toast to M+ Architecture and Design Programs

Design & Architecture
Event Recap
Features
New York

Amid sweeping views of the East River and the Manhattan Financial District, the M+ American Friends Foundation celebrated a forthcoming season at M+ Museum of design and architecture-focused programs at M+ Museum. Coinciding with NYC Design Week and AAPI heritage month in May, the gathering was a perfect occasion to spotlight M+ Museum’s rich offerings […]

A portrait of I.M. Pei.

M+ Announces I.M. Pei Retrospective

Design & Architecture
Hong Kong
News

I.M. Pei: Life is Architecture, the first full-scale retrospective of architect I. M. Pei (1917–2019), opened at M+ on June 29, 2024, and will be on view through January 5, 2025. One of the most influential architects of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Ieoh Ming Pei was a pioneering figure who fundamentally changed his field.  […]

US-trained Designer Henry Steiner in the Spotlight at M+

Design & Architecture
Hong Kong
News

Henry Steiner: The Art of Graphic Communication features the work of the father of graphic design in Hong Kong. The exhibition celebrates Henry Steiner’s (b. 1934) influential graphic language with a selection of some of his most iconic projects, including the HSBC logo, tracing the city’s development from the 1960s onwards. Born in Austria in […]

A poster image for the Asian Avant-garde film festival showing a blurry close-up of a face.

M+ Launches Inaugural Asian Avant-Garde Film Festival

Hong Kong
Moving Image
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This four-day program, supported by CHANEL, showcases independent art and filmmaking in Asia, celebrating these robust communities, original visual languages, and cross-cultural dialogues. Held between 30 May to 2 June 2024, the festival will host screenings, exhibitions, performances, talks, and workshops with artists and filmmakers from across Asia and key works from the M+ Collections. […]