Found and frugal spaces: architecture for art; China's growing market for contemporary art has spawned an equally revolutionary crop of new buildings.

The Architectural Review | July 1, 2008| | Copyright

Nowhere is the Chinese counter-revolution more apparent than in the field of contemporary art. As recently as two decades ago, the doctrines of socialist realism were sternly enforced and dissenters were persecuted. During the Cultural Revolution artists were compelled to portray manically grinning workers and peasants clustered around a beaming Chairman, and waving his little red book; now those images are the stuff of satire and almost anything goes. A few artists have become international starts, prices are soaring and huge factories have been transformed into ...

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