Decorative Art

Remember when Christo and Jeanne-Claude wrapped Sydney's Little Bay in 1969? Me either, but apparently that was the first Kaldor Project. This year Sydney celebrates the 19th project of its kind with Tatzu Nishi's War and Peace and In Between 2009, a major intervention outside the New South Wales Gallery. Nishi takes two well-known public sculptures by the English sculptor Gilbert Bayes and builds rooms around them -- a bedroom and a living room, to be exact. The sculpture are each equestrian in nature -- a horse and its rider. In the bedroom, Nishi turns the everyday on its head making the horse step up onto a double bed. In the living room, a giant horses head is hidden in the TV cabinet and the rider's head sits on the coffee table. Walk back down the ramp and view the installation from afar to notice the bodies of horse and rider beneath the structure. Out of place, out of scale and pure genius. Catch it up until February 14, 2010 at Sydney's New South Wales Gallery.

Sensual Suprise at the Australian Centre for Photography

The Australian Centre for Photography is currently hosting a highly stylized, decadent, titillating show by Canadian-born, Sydney-based photographers Denis Montalbetti and Gay Campbell (you may remember them as the photographer team responsible for the photo of the X-Files'Mulder and Scully together in bed). The Sensualists sees beautiful bodies seemingly from the 18th and 19th centuries in various poses of wanton desire. Robert Cook, Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Photography and Design at the Art Gallery of Western Australia calls it, "Eros at work, eros at play" and ads that there's is an art that "Marie Antoinette would dig, or at least Sofia Coppola's version of her." Stylist Cassandra Scott-Finn, a former fashion editor of iLove and Ego magazines is the talent behind the over-the-top set design, make-up and hair direction. www.acp.org.au

Monochrome Moment

If you're visiting Sydney between now and April 11 next year, throw on your most colorful frock and head off to Olafur Eliasson's Room for One Color at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Monochromatic bulbs emit light that turns all shades to black and white. Freaky -- in the best way.