Chinese “urban village,” Dafen once produced an estimated 60 percent of all the world’s oil paintings. During its heyday-when the village’s reputation as an art factory rang truer than today-it almost exclusively cranked out copies of paintings in the Western art canon.
Open Societies of Seorge Poros and The Gate Keepers
" So, what you’re proposing is a lockdown “free society” under poverty with restricted movement enforced by communist militia? Isn’t that just house arrest? …with no police.. isn’t that just anarchy? " - Ai Wei-wei