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Hong Kong Art Week Through Picasso, Cezanne, Renoir, and Other Masters

In March 2025, Hong Kong was dense with major exhibitions. Moving through four art spaces at M+, the Hong Kong Palace Museum, the Hong Kong Museum of Art, and Phillips Asia head...

How does this 2025 Hong Kong Art Week film connect four different art spaces?

This 2025 Hong Kong Art Week film visits M+, the Hong Kong Palace Museum, Hong Kong Museum of Art and Phillips Asia headquarters, connecting them through major artists and exchanges between Eastern and Western traditions. Works by Picasso, Cezanne, Renoir and others prompt questions about periods, artistic languages and ways of looking. Related reports on M+ photography and Yuanmingyuan offer further examples of institutions and curatorial approaches in the same city.

Transcript

In March 2025, Hong Kong was dense with major exhibitions. Moving through four art spaces at M+, the Hong Kong Palace Museum, the Hong Kong Museum of Art, and Phillips Asia headquarters, this film asks how we read works by Picasso, Cezanne, Renoir, and other masters across time, and how Western artists, artisans, and Eastern traditions continue to speak to one another.

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