I was expecting the necessity of a protracted explanation on my part as to where exactly I wanted to go, but the taxi driver im-mediately knew, despite the fact that 798 Art District is way up in the northeast of Beijing, adjacent to a nondescript business centre in what was a German military camp enclosure. It is no longer enclosed. It no longer needs to be. The government has long ago seen the sense in accessibility and careful encourage-ment where art is concerned, as strategies to avoid secrecy and dissent by potentially counter-revolutionary artists and intellec-tuals.