ART FACTORY

http://www.newyorker.com/online/multimedia/2009/10/26/091026_audioslideshow_artfactory

This week in the magazine, Peter Hessler writes about artists in Lishui, a city in eastern China, who are commissioned to make paintings for the foreign market. In this audio slide show, Hessler discusses the artists’ modest backgrounds and ambitions, and how painting became one of the many growing industries in China today. Photographs by Peter Hessler and Mark Leong.