UCCA Center for Contemporary Art

This guide to the UCCA Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing traces a Bauhaus-trained factory building's second life as one of China's leading nonprofit art museums. It follows the Belgian collector Guy Ullens, who gutted the 1950s electronics factory in 2007 and opened it with a landmark show on China's underground '85 New Wave, and the crisis when he announced in 2016 that he could no longer fund the museum alone. For months nobody knew whether the doors would stay open.