Mike Yardley: Cultural draws in Brisbane
(Photo / queensland.com) Tue, 6 Jul 2021, 1:40PM
If you needed just one reason to pay a visit to Brisbane, GOMA, the Gallery of Modern Art boasts some serious bling. GOMA is exclusively playing host to one of the most stirring exhibitions of international art ever staged in Australia, ‘European Masterpieces from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.’ I ventured to GOMA just days after the exhibition’s June 11 opening and despite all of the hype, it still smashed my expectations. Installed at GOMA until 17 October, ‘European Masterpieces’ is a wonderfully escapist and intimate journey through five centuries of European painting from exquisite devotional scenes of the early Renaissance to fleeting glimpses of nature captured by the Impressionists.