Beijing - National Art Gallery

The largest art gallery in town, opposite the north end of the shopping street Wangfujing, was built to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the founding of the state in the year 1959. It shows exclusively temporary exhibitions - sometimes several running concurrently - in which current Chinese art and occasionally foreign works of art predominate. Artists are able to hire the rooms and sell their works. Apart from oil paintings and ink drawings, photographs, calligraphies, lacquer works as well as ceramics and other sculptures are exhibited.