The imposition of Hong Kong’s National Security Law in June 2020 impacted the city’s art and film industry dramatically.
After the law was enacted, movies, documentaries, and art supporting protests against the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began to disappear.
One of the first to feel the new law’s effects was M+ Gallery. In 2021, the prominent new art gallery—compared by ArtNews to London’s Tate Gallery—agreed not to show photographs by Ai Weiwei, an artist openly critically of the Chinese regime. The gallery, which had been hailed as a holdout for free expression, continued to show works commemorating Tiananmen Square, such as Chinese artist Wang Xingwei’s painting “New Beijing.”  However, those works were quietly removed while the museum was closed due to Omicron in early 2022….