Dafen is now a destination, with artists posing as painters, and visitors posing with paintings. Meanwhile, the subway is open and many of the new developments are opening and real estate is booming, so that it’s now difficult to find the painting village–it’s a sinkhole in the midst of rising towers. Impressions, below:
http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2015/apr/13/wild-pigeon-what-uighurs-see/
Yes. Sadness.