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Australia museum can bar men from controversial ‘Ladies Lounge’ art exhibit for women, court says

Appeals court says Australia museum was within its rights to bar men from controversial art exhibit for women

The Independent UK

Patriarchy 'smashed': ladies' win in lounge legal fight

A legal decision that forced the closure of an art gallery's ladies' lounge because it "discriminated" against men has been overturned.

AAP

MONA’s Ladies Lounge Wins Legal Discrimination Battle And Can Re-Open & Continue Excluding Men

Catch y’all in the Ladies Lounge!!!!!

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‘Flipped universe’ Ladies Lounge exhibit intended to expose gender inequality, Mona’s lawyer tells court

Lawyer says installation was ‘not about bringing another group down’ as gallery appeals decision ordering it to admit men

The Guardian - AU

'Flipped universe': legal fight for ladies' lounge

Tasmania's Museum of Old and New Art is appealing a tribunal decision which ruled their ladies-only lounge discriminated against men.

AAP

'Male supremacy': ladies lounge discrimination appeal

An art gallery will argue a tribunal decision to label its ladies-only lounge discriminatory didn't take into account ongoing disadvantage faced by women.

AAP

Critics are calling MONA ‘childish’, but history shows us how much the public love an art forger

Art forgery is a devilish attempt to deceive its audience.

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‘Childish and unprofessional’: art experts say Mona’s fake-Picasso stunt may undermine gallery’s reputation

Critics say revelation Kirsha Kaechele created works over three years ago is more prank than performance art, and risks leaving patrons feeling ‘cheated’

The Guardian - AU

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

An Australian art museum curator has divulged that she was the creator of three paintings that she presented as works by Pablo Picasso -- and which prompted a gender discrimination case when she only permitted female gallery patrons to view them

The Independent UK

Fake Picassos in a ladies toilet: why the saga at MONA is one of the most effective pieces of performance art I’ve seen

In the latest instalment of the Ladies Lounge saga at Hobart’s Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), curator Kirsha Kaechele has revealed she faked a number of Pablo Picasso paintings hanging in the gallery’s new ladies toilets, established in response to the forced closure of the Ladies Lounge earlier…

The Conversation

MONA Artist Confesses She Faked Three ‘Priceless’ Picasso Paintings And Nobody Had A Clue

"I waited for weeks. Nothing happened."

Pedestrian.tv

'Picassos' hanging in Tasmania's MONA were 'created'

Artist and curator Kirsha Kaechele has revealed two paintings hung in Tasmania's MONA are not Picassos and were, in fact, painted by her.

AAP

Fake Picassos: Mona admits Ladies Lounge paintings were forged by Kirsha Kaechele

The paintings made global headlines after being moved to Mona’s female toilets in protest against a court ruling. But they were never real to begin with

The Guardian - AU

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

Museum was sued for discrimination after a man was denied entry to a women-only exhibit

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MONA Fires Back To That Discrimination Ruling By Hanging Priceless Picassos In The Ladies’ Toots

Big win for the girls (and bathroom mirror selfies).

The Guardian - AU

Mona hangs Picassos in women’s toilet in response to court ruling

Picassos were among artworks hanging in Ladies Lounge exhibition that closed after a court ruled it must admit men

AAP

MONA queen's forest foray has aura of ambiguity

It's been six months since Kirsha Kaechele held a bizarre congress to get loggers and forest defenders talking. In typical MONA fashion it's been polarising.

AAP

MONA appeals ladies-only lounge discrimination ruling

A Tasmanian art gallery ordered to open its ladies lounge to men after a discrimination complaint has appealed the ruling in the Supreme Court.

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The Guardian - AU

Tasmania’s Mona to challenge decision to let men into ladies-only art lounge

Artist Kirsha Kaechele said they needed to fight for ‘the right to make some men uncomfortable’

AAP

Artist 'saddened' her MONA exhibit broke the law

The artist behind the Ladies Lounge exhibit at Hobart's MONA museum has said she is deeply saddened after the exhibit was found to have broken the law.

AAP

Museum ordered to stop discriminating in Ladies Lounge

A man was unhappy his $35 entry fee did not allow him to see all the museum's artwork, including a crown worn by a curator when she married the owner.

The Guardian - AU

Mona ordered to allow people ‘who do not identify as ladies’ into Ladies Lounge exhibit

Tasmanian tribunal rules Museum of Old and New Art discriminated against NSW man by denying him entry to installation

The Guardian - AU

Artist behind Mona’s ladies-only lounge ‘absolutely delighted’ man is suing for gender discrimination

NSW man Jason Lau claims denying men entry is discriminatory, but artist Kirsha Kaechele says men’s ‘experience of rejection is the artwork’

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