Beijing wins CASSFA

Or How Coxsoft Art Got Sidetracked. I started looking for a new exhibition in London reported by Art Daily: Lhasa Express will feature artists from Tibet and China, 21 July to 25 August 2006. The venues are Himalayan antiques dealers Rossi & Rossi Ltd, Mayfair, and Tibetan art gallery The Sweet Tea House, Bethnal Green. The former's website had lost its server and the latter's hadn't been updated since January! So I tried looking for Lhasa Express and discovered the world's highest and newest railway. It takes just under 48 hours to travel from Beijing to Lhasa in Tibet, rising high enough to do nasty things to your laptop. Its inaugural journey ended successfully two days ago. Not too many passengers needed oxygen masks! I found all this information on Beijing's official .gov website, which is surprisingly unoffical in appearance. Not only is it informative and attractive, but also it makes imaginative use of Macromedia Flash Player 8 without crashing IE6. Wow! The BBC doesn't always get that right. So Beijing has won a Coxsoft Art Silver Surfer Friendly Award.