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Growing change: a different kind of school garden program is improving student outcomes in Tasmania

The 24 Carrots kitchen garden program founded by Tasmanian artist Kirsha Kaechele aims to integrate ‘art and lifestyle into every aspect of the project’

The Guardian - AU · Sep 8, 2025

‘The surf’s up and the patriarchy is down’: Kirsha Kaechele takes Ladies Lounge to the Gold Coast

With butlers wearing ‘probably not much’ – but no fake Picassos – the Mona performance art installation that won a court challenge is heading north to Bleach* festival

The Guardian - AU · Jun 18, 2025

Hard to swallow: can Australians be convinced to eat our invasive species?

New ABC show Eat the Invaders sees Tony Armstrong team up with artist Kirsha Kaechele to see if they can make carp, feral cat and even cane toads palatable

The Guardian - AU · Jan 2, 2025

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Pouring champagne and ironing knickers: my day serving the matriarchy as a topless male waiter

The Museum of Old and New Art in nipaluna/Hobart is allowing men into its Ladies Lounge for the first time – as long as they remove their shirts and serve its female patrons

The Guardian - AU · Dec 30, 2024

MONA’s C*nty Ladies Lounge Will Reopen For A ‘Victory Lap’, Only Allowing Men In For Housework Lessons

“We’ll bathe in champagne and enjoy the kind of ecstatic release that comes only after a hard-won battle.”

Pedestrian.tv · Dec 12, 2024

Victorious 'patriarchy smashing' Ladies' Lounge reopens

The Museum of New and Old Art is reopening its notorious and lavish Ladies' Lounge following a court win over a man who claimed the space was discriminatory.

AAP · Dec 11, 2024

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 · Sep 27, 2024

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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 · Sep 27, 2024

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

Catch y’all in the Ladies Lounge!!!!!

Pedestrian.tv · Sep 27, 2024

‘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 · Sep 17, 2024

'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 · Sep 17, 2024

'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 · Jul 24, 2024

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.

The Conversation · Jul 16, 2024

‘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 · Jul 12, 2024

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The Independent UK · Jul 12, 2024

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 Conversation · Jul 11, 2024

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…

Pedestrian.tv · Jul 11, 2024

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

"I waited for weeks. Nothing happened."

AAP · Jul 11, 2024

'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.

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The Guardian - AU · Jul 10, 2024

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 Independent UK · Jun 25, 2024

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

Pedestrian.tv · Jun 25, 2024

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 · Jun 24, 2024

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 · Jun 14, 2024

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 · May 7, 2024

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.

The Guardian - AU · May 7, 2024

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’

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