Art and About

We take a peek at the recent increase in public art installations in some of Sydney's out of the way, forgotten laneways.

From October 20, 2010 the acclaimed 50 Years of Italian Chairs exhibition takes a seat in Sydney. Currently wowing crowds at Brisbane's QPAC, curator Alessandro Mendini, editor of Italian design magazine, DOMUS examines seating design from the second half of the 20th Century: Mendini offers the chairs as small pieces of ‘architecture’ whose design has tested the mettle of renowned artists...