"If you wanted to illustrate the increasingly global nature of the money and influence driving the art world these days, you might invent a wealthy Belgian couple who live in, say, Switzerland, and plan to use the money they made selling a collection of English masterworks to establish a center for contemporary art in Beijing..." Randy Kennedy wrote in The New York Times. His profile of Baron Guy and Myriam Ullens explains how they have sold their Turners for $21 million to create one of the largest contemporary art spaces in China. With the art market in China "roaring," the Chinese government is showing a growing receptivity to contemporary art as part of their desire to show Beijing as a world-class city.

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