Hong Kong's M+ museum opens amid censorship controversy

Hong Kong’s swanky caller M+ depository is Asia’s largest assemblage with a billion-dollar postulation acceptable to unfastened connected Friday.

It boasts 183,000 quadrate feet of space, 33 galleries and implicit 6,400 works successful its postulation that scope from modern creation to architecture.

It's built to rival London’s Modern Tate and the Museum of Modern Art successful New York.

But the depository has travel nether occurrence for censorship aft it removed a portion by Chinese creator and dissident Ai Weiwei pursuing disapproval that it was spreading hatred against China and could interruption the city’s sweeping nationalist information law.

The enactment titled “Study of Perspective: Tian’anmen (1997)” depicts Ai raising a mediate digit astatine Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, the tract of the bloody 1989 crackdown connected protesters.