Flemish government scraps plan to dissolve M HKA after backlash

Belgium is abandoning its plan to dismantle the Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (M HKA) after being met with stiff resistance from the artistic community. The government had aimed to cancel construction of a high-rise building that was to have served as M HKA’s new home and to strip the museum, the oldest contemporary arts institution in the country, of its national museum status; the 8,000-piece collection would have then moved to S.M.A.K in Ghent, some fifty miles away.