Ioften wish for more seating — in parks, on the sidewalk, at the train station and especially in galleries. It’s not a make-or-break for me, I’m just a slow looker, but it can be a serious deterrent for folks who are not able-bodied. Though mostly we ignore it, furniture says a lot about a place, its priorities and the people who use it, though mostly we ignore it.

What if, instead, comfort was prioritized and art arranged accordingly? Just such an experiment is ongoing at Gallery 400, where Finnegan Shannon has built a giant conveyor-belt table, surrounded by a dozen-plus chairs. Visitors to “Don’t mind if I do” sit down and the art — small, holdable sculptures by Shannon and 10 others — comes to them. In a second installation, Shannon hangs seven paintings at a height about 12 inches

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