Hong Kong's new M+ modern art museum launch: Artistic expression 'not above the law', says chairman

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When asked by HKFP if the museum could be compared to London's Tate Modern in that works from the most famous living Chinese artist Ai Weiwei were being censored, Chair of the West Kowloon Cultural District Henry Tang said that M+ must comply with the law.

"In order to lay the foundation - the opening of M+ does not mean that artistic expression is above the law, it is not." He added that, with regards to MoMA, New York, they likely have art which is not "politically acceptable" to display. "For example, whether it's racially incorrect, or whether it is an oppression of some sort, or a coloured race... every society [does] have certain evolutionary values."

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