798 Baby

There is fantastic art district in Beijing, the 798. It was formerly a big ugly communist era factory zone. Much of the manufacturing apparatus is still intact, giving the area a gothic industrial feel. There is a world class gallery called the Ullen's. Many people don't realize that China had its own artistic tradition that thrived alongside that of the West. There is abstract-expressionalism and post-modernism on par with anything produced by Kandinsky or Warhol. Anyway enjoy the pics.