Take Carrie: newly single, she recently accompanied Charlotte to a gallery, started heckling the performance artist (who was a bit like the Maleny tree guy without the principles, or the tree, for that matter) and before you could say "Can you tell me how to get to Sesame Street?", Carrie had bagged herself a new boyfriend.

Russian artist Aleksandr Petrovsky (played by renowned dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov) is Carrie's final season "luvah" on SatC and, despite the fact that he's as boring as bat guano, they go from art-gallery banter to serious relationship in record time.

But the point is not whether Aleksandr looks like The Count from Sesame Street, (he does, by the way, and I feel confident that when he ventures into Carrie's shoe cupboard we'll hear a muffled, "One, ah ah ah ah" as he attempts to count the Manolos). The point is that TV's 30-something single women seem to have no problem finding dates. Unlike many of their real-world counterparts. The question is, when it comes to finding a paramour among the artworks, is Ms Bradshaw on to something?

This year a number of London art galleries began hosting singles nights because, as a British journalist recently noted: "Art galleries are full of people on the pull." Noice.

The Hayward Gallery is just one of a number of London galleries which have started hosting regular Art2Heart shindigs; evenings designed to give "cultured singletons the chance to meet new friends or potential companions at high-profile art events." While I'm not aware of any galleries in Queensland taking up this idea as yet, it sounds way better than that whole banana in the trolley thing happening at supermarkets.

So is art the ultimate aphrodisiac? Artist and gallery owner Brett Lethbridge says it certainly can be.

"The experience of seeing one person's creative ideas and energy expressed artistically is a pretty incredible thing and can leave you with the distinct impression there is more to life than work and taxes," says Lethbridge, who runs the Lethbridge Gallery in Paddington. He also thinks art exhibitions make a great first date.

"I reckon art exhibitions beat the pants off a dinner/movie. You don't have to stare at each other over a table thinking up conversation because you already have something to talk about. You can appear cultured and intellectual, the show lasts a maximum of an hour and, of course, the big bonus is the alcohol at an exhibition is usually free."

Good point.

But going to an art gallery is one thing. Fitting in is another. The trick, according to Lethbridge, is mastering the "intellectual gaze". "Those really in-the-know never talk about the art but rather stare at the piece for at least 45 seconds longer than one would think appropriate, give a little snort through the nostrils indicating a vague sign of impressed indifference and then move on to the next painting for another prolonged stare - a bit like wine tasting," Lethbridge explains.

"You should never say 'his work reminds me of so and so' or worse, 'I like the colours'. If you are absolutely drawn into conversation about the piece in question, use words such as 'sympathetic' or 'evocative'." Apparently the word "juxtapose" has passed its use-by date and is very yesterday. To boost your confidence, you can always attend an art appreciation class like the ones the Lethbridge Gallery runs every Thursday night.

If it's all sounding a bit hard, then why not sit back and watch someone else go through the stress of preparing for a first date?

Head along to The Loft at the Q.U.T. Creative Industries Precinct at Kelvin Grove to see 06:27 Part 1 - a three-scene cinematic experience that charts a day in the life of a guy called Simon.

Simon's day begins at 06:27am when he starts trying to deal with the pressure of going for a job promotion while at the same time contemplating how to score a date with a girl called Kate. "The production blends virtual and real performance to reveal the quirky nature of the thought process in us all," says creator Brad Jennings. "The audience will be enclosed in the one-bedroom world of Simon as he fumbles through the first half hour of an eventful day."