M+ Collections: Highlights

The M+ Collections is a carefully curated collection of visual art, moving image, design, and architecture from around the world. The M+ Collections: Highlights book features over 300 artists, designers, filmmakers, photographers, and architects, with individual entries on the featured makers and 24 thematic essays that explore the movements, tendencies, and ideas around which the collections have grown.

Format: Hardback
Length: 504 pages
Publication date: 24 March 2022
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd

At the core of Hong Kong's new museum of visual culture lies the M+ Collections, a meticulously curated assemblage of art, moving images, design, and architecture. These collections, the first of their kind in Asia, comprise four distinct holdings: the M+ Collection, featuring over 6,000 works and objects from the realms of visual art, moving image, and design and architecture, the museum's primary areas of interest; the M+ Sigg Collection, comprising 1,510 contemporary Chinese art pieces; the M+ Collection Archives, consisting of over 45,000 items; and the M+ Library Special Collection, with 400-plus items. Together, these holdings embody the bold and ambitious mission with which M+ was founded: to establish itself as a multidisciplinary museum of contemporary visual culture, rooted in Hong Kong and Asia but with a global perspective.

M+ Collections: Highlights presents the work of more than 300 artists, designers, filmmakers, photographers, and architects, carefully selected to represent the entirety of the collections. Spanning seven chapters, each encompassing a different decade of the collections' span, the book comprises individual entries on the featured makers, each accompanied by one or more of their works and an insightful analysis by an M+ curator. Interspersed among these entries are 24 thematic essays designed to shed light on some of the movements, tendencies, and ideas that have shaped the collections, including modernism in Asian art and the future of painting in a digital world. M+ is a treasure trove of unexpected connections and fresh perspectives, offering a captivating journey through the world of visual culture.

Weight: 2860g
Dimension: 280 x 230 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780500024362