Beijing 798 art district

It started a decade ago with setting up radical art studios in the workshops of a largely abandoned military electronics complex. The artists renovated the spaces preserving the Bauhaus-style, the Maoist slogans and giving a touch of post-industrial chic to the place. Today, Factory 798 in northeast Beijing, has become China's premier hub of contemporary art and is the centerof Beijing's bourgeois-bohemian community. Often compared with New York's SoHo, its a warren of art galleries, studios,...
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It started a decade ago with setting up radical art studios in the workshops of a largely abandoned military electronics complex. The artists renovated the spaces preserving the Bauhaus-style, the Maoist slogans and giving a touch of post-industrial chic to the place. Today, Factory 798 in northeast Beijing, has become China's premier hub of contemporary art and is the centerof Beijing's bourgeois-bohemian community. Often compared with New York's SoHo, its a warren of art galleries, studios, design companies, publishing firm, restaurants, and cafes..Sculpture of a Chinese girl at an exhibition at 798 Art District. ..
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