We finially managed to get into the kity with the kids to see Yayoi Kusama's retrospective ("Mirrored Years") at the MCA. It's always a great gallery to visit with the kids - so much more than static paintings on the walls. Kusama was certainly no disappointment in that respect. The highlight was when they shut the five of us in a room with mirrors on every surface, and the floor covered with red and white polka-dot stuffed shapes - installation art at its finest.

The other exhibitions were equally satisfying - I Walk the Line (New Australian Drawing) and Avoiding Myth & Message (Australian Artists and the Literary World).

And then as we left, we discovered this odd "tree" on the lawn in front of the gallery. It looked like a bare Magnolia Grandis from a distance, but we soon discovered it was an ad for a new brand of tissues. At the end of each branch was a fabric flower, and it was some poor backpacker's job to staple individual tissues to each flower. As people removed the free samples from the flowers, she rolled her eyes and stomped over to staple on another tissue. Unintentional performance art.