以艺术为商标一座只有商业的城市是乏味的。在输出价值观以前,或许应该先尝试—下在艺术领域我们究竟能做点什么。不难发现,在798艺术区形成之前,北京几乎没有任何一个文化创意产业区来宣称自己的与众不同。与纽约的Soho区、法国的左岸和德国的鲁尔区相比,798更像一个新生的婴儿,这也许正符合人们对当下的、正在发生的、正在发展的中国的想象。 Art as a Trademark Only a commercial city is boring. Before exporting values, perhaps one should try first - what can we do next in the field of art? It is not hard to find out that before the formation of the 798 Art District, there was almost no cultural and creative industrial zone in Beijing that declared itself distinctive. Compared with the Soho in New York, the left bank in France and the Ruhr in Germany, the 798 is more like a newborn baby, which may well be in line with people’s imagination of the present, developing and developing China.