Beijing's Gallery Weekend at 10: An Arts Scene Enduring Through Urban Upheaval
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Yiyi You
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Beijing's Gallery Weekend (GWBJ) marks its ten-year anniversary, reflecting on the city's dramatic changes since its 2017 inception — including the hutong overhauls and the 'clean up low-end population' campaign. Despite reasons to criticize Beijing, this year's Gallery Weekend showcases a resilient and compelling arts scene that continues to thrive amid urban upheaval.
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· 4 pulledThere are plenty of reasons to knock Beijing, writes Yiyi You, but this year's Gallery Weekend offers plenty of reasons not to
Beijing's first Gallery Weekend opened in the spring of 2017. Around that same time, the city began a largescale overhaul of its hutongs
By winter, the campaign to 'clean up low-end population' had become a sombre collective memory of that year
On its ten-year anniversary, Gallery Weekend Beijing (GWBJ) inevitably brings to mind the upheavals in the city at its onset
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