Art gallery
Queensland Art Gallery
Riverside art museum with a once-stolen Picasso, a sculpture court, and cascading fountain walls.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Queensland Art Gallery in Brisbane centres on a night in June nineteen sixty-seven, when a young New Zealand labourer climbed scaffolding at the gallery's old Bowen Hills building and let himself in through a top-floor window. Inside was Picasso's La Belle Hollandaise, bought years earlier for a record sum, and a decision the trustees were weighing that troubled him deeply. You will hear what drove him. Stand at the Watermall to see the painting exactly where it hangs today.
This audio guide was created using AI.