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Eight contemporary Chinese artists have been offered their own personal museums in Dujiangyan, in Sichuan Province. The city plans to begin construction on an 18-acre plot of land soon. (photo by Xiao Quan)

For years their work could not be exhibited in China, but in recent years the country’s leading contemporary artists are being courted by major art collectors abroad and their paintings set records at international auction sales. And now, a local government in Sichuan Province (the area in western China) has offered to give eight contemporary artists, all under 60, their own personal museums to operate. In a country with no major museum of contemporary art — not even in Beijing, where most of the eight artists work — this is a novel development.

Read article (New York Times, August 25, 2007)

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