Queensland Art Gallery Presscuttings Book 8 : Pressclippings, 1977-1981

LAI\IA Gcshc Thupten Loden, n Buddhist monk from Tibet (above), felt at home yesterday during a visit to the exhibition of Chinese Paintings of the Ming and Qlng Dynusttes at the Queensland Art Gallery. Australian Buddhists raised $12,000 to bring him here to work with Buddhists In Queensland, New South Wales and Victorin. Brisbane alone has more than 4000 Buddhists, mainly Viet- namese refugees. THE ancient display year. TREASURES of Egypt may be on In Brisbane next The Federal Government's In– ternutlonnl Cultural Corporntlon hopes to bring out the 'rut• nnkhnmen Exhibition n.s one nl two truvell!ng exhibitions next ycnr. Corporntlon chalrmnn, Mr Jim Leslie, sl\ld In Brisbane yc,tcrdny tho other exhibition was likely lo be the 'l 'okaga.wa prints - from the Shogun era of Japan. The corporntlon brou~ht out the S50 m!lllon collection of Ohl· nese paintings now on &bow at the Queensland Art Onllery. It succeeded where the US and Japan had fnlled in nchtevlng the first ol'erseas loan of paint– ings from the Chinese Govern– ment. The exhibition wns scheduled to end next Saturday but has been extended for a week. Mr Leslie said the corporntlon hoped to obtain n variety of trav– elling exhibitions. Thore was a greater number of archacologlcnl works AVnllnble thnn other nrt forms. So fur. said Mr Leslie, the cor– porntlon wss existing on ''healthy sponsorship." It cost about Sl.5 mlllton to bring a collection to Australia. "We have a special problem tn having such n big country and a small population," he said. However, Brisbane was easured or seeing the King Tut exhibition - It was not destined for Sydnty nnd Melbourne only, Negotiations hnd gone smoothly to obtain the :lhowins• but there wa. keen competition