MAKING HISTORY
Dec 03, 2019
4 minutes
BY OLIVER GILES.
PORTRAIT BY MICHAELA GILES
When the Hong Kong Museum of Art (HKMOA) reopens at the end of this year, one of its 11 exhibitions will feature some of the most famous landscape paintings in the world—all of them on loan from London’s Tate. Hongkongers will have the chance to see a moody maritime scene by JMW Turner, a sprawling, 12.2m long landscape by David Hockney and more than 70 other drawings, prints and paintings. But the show isn’t going to be a by-the-book look back at the best of British art. “With travelling exhibitions, we are not going to restrict
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