Chaoyang Art District

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Today we visited the 'art district' of beijing. First we went to this new area that is a little bit outside the city and is known to be the art district that is 'not government supervised'. I actually thought this area was kind of boring. it had a great deal of sichuan immigrants and restaurants. afterwards we took a bus to the 'government supervised' art district, called 798, which was really cool. it probably covered a whole square mile and had a bunch of different art galleries, cafes, music houses, etc. all over these small promenades and alleys. I highly recommend spending half a day or even a full day wandering this area.

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Photos

The First area
non restricted art

the building
this was actually designed by the same architect as the guy who built the new olympic stadium

Acoustic House
this is actually in the 'government restricted area' but i really thought it was cool.

alley
there were a lot of little alleys like this that just had tons of different galleries, shops, cafes, etc.