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Australia’s MONA reopens controversial women-only art installation, allowing some men to enter for ‘reparations’
6 days, 15 hours ago

Australia’s MONA reopens controversial women-only art installation, allowing some men to enter for ‘reparations’

CNN  

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by The Art Newspaper, an editorial partner of CNN Style. The Ladies Lounge, at the Museum of Old and New Art in Tasmania, Australia, was created five years ago by artist Kirsha Kaechele, the wife of the museum’s founder and owner David Walsh. A tribunal in Tasmania’s capital city Hobart subsequently ruled that …

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A museum in Australia can bar men from the ‘Ladies Lounge’ exhibition, a regional top court says
2 months, 3 weeks ago

A museum in Australia can bar men from the ‘Ladies Lounge’ exhibition, a regional top court says

Associated Press  

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A museum in Australia was within its rights to bar men from a controversial art exhibit for women meant to underscore their exclusion from segments of the male-dominated society, a top regional court said on Friday. On Friday, Tasmania’s Supreme Court threw out on appeal an order for Tasmania’s Museum of Old and New Art, where …

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Supreme Court quashes Mona Ladies Lounge tribunal decision that saw it shut down
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Supreme Court quashes Mona Ladies Lounge tribunal decision that saw it shut down

ABC  

Tasmania's Supreme Court has quashed a tribunal decision that would have forced a museum to allow men to enter its women-only "Ladies' Lounge". Judge finds 'societal gender bias still exists' The case itself came down to an interpretation of one section in Tasmania's Anti-Discrimination Act: "A person may discriminate against another person in any program, plan or arrangement designed to …

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Mona's Ladies Lounge discrimination case heads to Tasmania's Supreme Court amid appeal to reinstate ladies-only space
3 months ago

Mona's Ladies Lounge discrimination case heads to Tasmania's Supreme Court amid appeal to reinstate ladies-only space

ABC  

The ladies in navy are back and they have taken their fight to exclude men from the Ladies Lounge at Hobart's Museum of Old and New Art to the Supreme Court. Supporters of Kirsha Kaechele's Ladies Lounge dance outside the Supreme Court in Hobart. In court on Tuesday, Mona's lawyer, Catherine Scott, argued the Ladies Lounge was a "flipped universe" …

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These Picassos prompted a gender war at an Australian gallery. Now the curator says she painted them
5 months, 1 week ago

These Picassos prompted a gender war at an Australian gallery. Now the curator says she painted them

Associated Press  

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — They were billed as artworks by Pablo Picasso, paintings so valuable that an Australian art museum’s decision to display them in an exhibition restricted to women visitors provoked a gender discrimination lawsuit. Kirsha Kaechele, an Australian art museum curator, has divulged on July 9, 2024, that she was the creator of three paintings that she presented …

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Family of Pablo Picasso chooses not to take action against Tasmania's MONA for Kirsha Kaechele's faked artworks
5 months, 1 week ago

Family of Pablo Picasso chooses not to take action against Tasmania's MONA for Kirsha Kaechele's faked artworks

ABC  

The family of artist Pablo Picasso has chosen not to take action against Tasmania's Museum of Old and New Art after sending it a letter challenging its exhibition of several fake paintings that were falsely portrayed as Picassos. "The Picasso Estate, through Picasso Administration, recently contacted MONA over the exhibition of several works by Picasso whose nature seemed doubtful. Artist …

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Artist Kirsha Kaechele admits to faking Picassos and other works hanging in Tasmania's Mona gallery
5 months, 1 week ago

Artist Kirsha Kaechele admits to faking Picassos and other works hanging in Tasmania's Mona gallery

ABC  

Tasmania's Museum of Old and New Art has admitted to displaying three fake Picasso paintings for more than three years. In a blog post published on Wednesday, curator Kirsha Kaechele said she forged the fakes herself to match the colour scheme of the museum's Ladies Lounge. Kaechele said the fakes came about when she was designing the Ladies Lounge several …

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Australian museum hangs Picasso collection in women’s toilet after court ruling
5 months, 4 weeks ago

Australian museum hangs Picasso collection in women’s toilet after court ruling

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Kirsha Kaechele, the American artist who created the Ladies …

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Discrimination ruling over Mona's Ladies Lounge raise questions about women-only, men-only spaces
8 months, 1 week ago

Discrimination ruling over Mona's Ladies Lounge raise questions about women-only, men-only spaces

ABC  

There are men-only clubs, women-only gyms and an array of other facilities that operate on the basis of being exclusive to one gender. New South Wales man Jason Lau visited Hobart's Museum of Old and New Art in April last year and was refused entry to the Ladies Lounge, and made a complaint that was referred to the Tasmanian Civil …

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Necessary sanctuary or blatant discrimination? The decades-old battle over women-only spaces
8 months, 4 weeks ago

Necessary sanctuary or blatant discrimination? The decades-old battle over women-only spaces

ABC  

Walking around Coogee Beach in Sydney's east, the low-fuss entrance to McIver's Ladies Baths is easy to miss. While the remit of many of these organisations has expanded over the decades to include men, Lumby says she sees no problem with continuing the tradition of women-only spaces, "because it's not a zero-sum game". "It's measures that are designed to advance …

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