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Source: China Digital Times (CDT)

February 1st, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in China

The China Daily reports on the evictions of foreign artists from artists’ villages in Beijing:
In December 2009 a huge number of artists living and working in Beijing’s Chaoyang district were told to step aside in favor of a government project of humongous scales. After the artists of 008 Art Zone and Zhengyang Creative Art Zone lost their studio spaces and were left out in the cold in what has turned out to be Beijing’s harshest winter in 40 years, hundreds of others working in 13 other art zones realized that the threat of demolition is probably a real one… Still stun…   Read More

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