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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
