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Beijing Art Museum M WOODS is Launching a Gallery Inside “Animal Crossing”

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One of China's pioneering art institutions lands on the hit game of the moment

It’s the game of the moment. No, not Plague, Inc., but Animal Crossing. With millions of people under Covid-19 lockdown across the globe, the game has provided a much-needed bout of escapism and become a huge hit in the process.

Chinese players have flocked to the Nintendo title, which allows you to “create a home, interact with cute animal villagers, and just enjoy life.” With users also able to add their own images into the game, Covid-19 temperature checks, Chinese propaganda posters, and pictures of former Communist Party leaders (including meme god Jiang Zemin) have been populating Animal Crossing in recent weeks.

Now, Beijing art institution M WOODS is joining the fray. One of China’s pioneering art museums, M WOODS had already been playing with “hypothetical shows” in the digital realm after its doors were shuttered by the country’s novel coronavirus outbreak. This new venture take the form of a “virtual museum” with “significant past exhibitions from our history turned digital, such as: David Hockney, Lu Yang, Nicolas Party, and Andy Warhol, amongst others.”

 

The space will launched with a special livestream event on video platform Bilibili, where staff will be offering up free tutorials on how to get into the “museum.”

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One of China's pioneering art institutions lands on the hit game of the moment

It’s the game of the moment. No, not Plague, Inc., but Animal Crossing. With millions of people under Covid-19 lockdown across the globe, the game has provided a much-needed bout of escapism and become a huge hit in the process.

Chinese players have flocked to the Nintendo title, which allows you to “create a home, interact with cute animal villagers, and just enjoy life.” With users also able to add their own images into the game, Covid-19 temperature checks, Chinese propaganda posters, and pictures of former Communist Party leaders (including meme god Jiang Zemin) have been populating Animal Crossing in recent weeks.

Now, Beijing art institution M WOODS is joining the fray. One of China’s pioneering art museums, M WOODS had already been playing with “hypothetical shows” in the digital realm after its doors were shuttered by the country’s novel coronavirus outbreak. This new venture take the form of a “virtual museum” with “significant past exhibitions from our history turned digital, such as: David Hockney, Lu Yang, Nicolas Party, and Andy Warhol, amongst others.”

 

The space will launched with a special livestream event on video platform Bilibili, where staff will be offering up free tutorials on how to get into the “museum.”

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One of China's pioneering art institutions lands on the hit game of the moment

It’s the game of the moment. No, not Plague, Inc., but Animal Crossing. With millions of people under Covid-19 lockdown across the globe, the game has provided a much-needed bout of escapism and become a huge hit in the process.

Chinese players have flocked to the Nintendo title, which allows you to “create a home, interact with cute animal villagers, and just enjoy life.” With users also able to add their own images into the game, Covid-19 temperature checks, Chinese propaganda posters, and pictures of former Communist Party leaders (including meme god Jiang Zemin) have been populating Animal Crossing in recent weeks.

Now, Beijing art institution M WOODS is joining the fray. One of China’s pioneering art museums, M WOODS had already been playing with “hypothetical shows” in the digital realm after its doors were shuttered by the country’s novel coronavirus outbreak. This new venture take the form of a “virtual museum” with “significant past exhibitions from our history turned digital, such as: David Hockney, Lu Yang, Nicolas Party, and Andy Warhol, amongst others.”

 

The space will launched with a special livestream event on video platform Bilibili, where staff will be offering up free tutorials on how to get into the “museum.”

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One of China's pioneering art institutions lands on the hit game of the moment

It’s the game of the moment. No, not Plague, Inc., but Animal Crossing. With millions of people under Covid-19 lockdown across the globe, the game has provided a much-needed bout of escapism and become a huge hit in the process.

Chinese players have flocked to the Nintendo title, which allows you to “create a home, interact with cute animal villagers, and just enjoy life.” With users also able to add their own images into the game, Covid-19 temperature checks, Chinese propaganda posters, and pictures of former Communist Party leaders (including meme god Jiang Zemin) have been populating Animal Crossing in recent weeks.

Now, Beijing art institution M WOODS is joining the fray. One of China’s pioneering art museums, M WOODS had already been playing with “hypothetical shows” in the digital realm after its doors were shuttered by the country’s novel coronavirus outbreak. This new venture take the form of a “virtual museum” with “significant past exhibitions from our history turned digital, such as: David Hockney, Lu Yang, Nicolas Party, and Andy Warhol, amongst others.”

 

The space will launched with a special livestream event on video platform Bilibili, where staff will be offering up free tutorials on how to get into the “museum.”

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