{"id":6653,"date":"2014-04-17T06:57:03","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T22:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/?page_id=6653"},"modified":"2019-05-28T22:51:27","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T14:51:27","slug":"beijing-798-2014","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/photos\/beijing-798-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Beijing 798 Art Zone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I recently visited Beijing and spent an afternoon in the historic&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/798_Art_Zone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">798 Art Zone<\/a>, which&nbsp;is set amidst 50-year old decommissioned military factory buildings on the outskirts of the city. Now it&#8217;s a collection of art galleries, studios, and exhibits by local artists. Local specialties are painting, graffiti, and sculpture, and the star of the Art Zone is Ai Weiwei, China&#8217;s most respected, and notoriously anti-authoritarian, rebel artist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1196\" src=\"http:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/798.jpg\" alt=\"798 Beijing\" class=\"wp-image-6661\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/798-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/798-900x598.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/798.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1196\" src=\"http:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/7982.jpg\" alt=\"798 Beijing\" class=\"wp-image-6660\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/7982-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/7982-900x598.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/7982.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1196\" src=\"http:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/7983.jpg\" alt=\"798 Beijing\" class=\"wp-image-6659\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/7983-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/7983-900x598.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/7983.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1196\" src=\"http:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/7984.jpg\" alt=\"798 Beijing\" class=\"wp-image-6658\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/7984-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/7984-900x598.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/7984.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1196\" src=\"http:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/7985.jpg\" alt=\"798 Beijing\" class=\"wp-image-6657\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/7985-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/7985-900x598.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/7985.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1196\" src=\"http:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/7986.jpg\" alt=\"798 Beijing\" class=\"wp-image-6656\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/7986-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/7986-900x598.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/7986.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1196\" src=\"http:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/7987.jpg\" alt=\"798 Beijing\" class=\"wp-image-6655\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/7987-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/7987-900x598.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/7987.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1196\" src=\"http:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/7988.jpg\" alt=\"798 Beijing\" class=\"wp-image-6654\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/7988-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/7988-900x598.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/7988.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>March 29, 2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently visited Beijing and spent an afternoon in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":8720,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - 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