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RENOVATIONS, CLOSINGS, REBRANDING

long with the world’s gradual reopening in 2021, new institutions debuted and established spaces resumed operations. In Hong Kong, , the first international museum of modern and contemporary art and visual culture from Asia, opened to the public on November 12 in the West Kowloon Cultural District after more than a decade of debates, delays, and controversies. The Herzog and de Meuron-designed, 65,000-square-meter museum debuted with six opening exhibitions that featured more than 1,500 of the 8,000-plus items in its collections, and spanned modern and contemporary art, architecture, and

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