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in the capital, Běijīng has fully surrendered to the artistic currents that sweep the interna-
tional sphere. And whereas once it was foreign buyers who drove the booming art market,
increasingly it is now the new local rich who are acquiring art.
Today, Běijīng is home to a vibrant community of artists practising a diverse mix of art
forms, from performance art, photography, installations and video art to film, although
painting remains by far the most popular visual arts medium. Běijīng artists compete in-
ternationally in art events, and joint exhibitions with European and North American artists
are frequent. At the same time, numerous Western artists have flocked to Běijīng in an
aesthetic entente cordiale .
The capital hosts several art festivals, including the Dàshānzi International Arts Festival
(every spring), the Affordable Art Fair ( CLICK HERE ) in June and the Běijīng Biennale
( www.biennialfoundation.org ) , held every two years in September/October, which attract artists,
dealers and critics from around the world.
A key turning point for contemporary Chinese art came in February 1989 when the National
Art Museum in Běijīng sponsored an exhibition devoted exclusively to Chinese avant-garde
art. On the opening day, artists Tang Song and Xiao Lu fired pistol shots at their own in-
stallations and the exhibition closed.
 
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