Contemporary and Siena

Otherwise we just hung around with friends in Sydney, ate too much in Chinatown and thereabouts and got to the Gallery to see the new wing and a few old faves.   Of note were some contemporary Aboriginal works, a jukebox with songs of protest, a video of digital tunnels that you could navigate (I'm not game-trained enough to be particularly capable), an amusing and unexpectedly attractive big rotten lemon in shiny glass beads and a fascinating smell-sensory work of spices in stockings.  The Tank was closed for refitting.  Then the main gallery and the traditional stuff, not least the earliest European painting in the collection, a Madonna and child by Sano di Pietro dated somewhere within 1450-81 and a long-term fave of Circe by Bertrand MacKellar.  All lovely or challenging or at least interesting.