The Latest Breaking News from Mona

Jónsi from Sigur Rós makes a volcano: ‘It goes straight up the arse to rattle your bones’

An immersive exhibition at Mona in Hobart merges music, sound and scent to evoke an eruption, from an artist who is always finding new ways to move his audience

The Guardian - AU · Oct 2, 2023

It’s back to the Futuro in Australia, where seven of the ‘UFO houses’ have landed

Mona’s David Walsh has restored one of the cult prefabs and says one day he’ll make it available to the public ‘at an exorbitant fee of course’

The Guardian - AU · Sep 2, 2023

Opponents, defenders of Tasmania's salmon industry as entrenched as ever as fish farming continues to grow

This chef vows he'll never serve it, while a local in a rural community says she is "sick of people coming from Hobart telling us we're unhappy with fish farms" — why is the salmon industry so divisive in Tasmania?

ABC News · May 19, 2023

Mona Athens: the hottest new hotel opening in the city

Kate Lough discovers Athens’ new creative pulse through the lens of Mona, a new opening in the heart of the ancient city

Evening Standard · Nov 2, 2022

David Bowie's handwritten Starman lyrics sell for $339,000 — to Tasmania's MONA

MONA's owner gets "carried away" and buys an A4 sheet of Bowie's handwritten lyrics for display in museum's library.

ABC News · Sep 28, 2022

Concerns Macquarie Point stadium plans could push out proposed Aboriginal reconciliation park

Reconciliation Tasmania is concerned the government's decision to choose Macquarie Point as its preferred stadium location could shunt aside a proposed Aboriginal reconciliation and truth-telling park, but MONA, the original designer of the idea, sees it as an opportunity to redesign the park concept.

ABC News · Sep 24, 2022

Dark Mofo festival in Hobart committed to change after controversy in 2021. How has it followed through?

As Dark Mofo approaches its final weekend, a promised First Nations advisory group and seed funding are still works in progress, but the festival maintains it is committed to doing better.

ABC News · Jun 16, 2022

Dark Mofo 2022: one year on from major controversy, has the festival learned from its mistakes?

Leigh Carmichael says his festival has changed for good, after last year was dominated by outrage and a boycott. But there’s still work to be done

The Guardian - AU · Jun 16, 2022

Burnt books and blackened stumps: Dark Mofo brings Tasmania’s ‘forest genocide’ indoors

At Mona, Fiona Hall and AJ King have built an immersive lament to the destructive forces of colonialism and male ego – but hope grows amid the wreckage

The Guardian - AU · Jun 12, 2022