Hong Kong’s contemporary artists deserve a bigger stage in its museums

There has been much hyperventilating over two recent controversies at M+, Hong Kong’s museum of visual culture.
The first was a series of mahjong social nights charging museum members and patrons up to HK$2,500 (US$319) for a package including an exhibition tour, a meal and social tile-shuffling in the members’ lounge. Mahjong may have had a Chinamaxxing makeover in the West, but in Hong Kong, the game is still considered a tad unwholesome for a museum even when no money changed hands.
Frankly,...