'Picasso' artworks put in female toilet as part of art gallery response to court ruling
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Multiple artworks in the style of Pablo Picasso have been relocated to a female toilet at Hobart's Mona, following an adverse court ruling which found a man was discriminated against when he was turned away from the women-only 'Ladies Lounge'.
  • In short: Tasmanian art gallery Mona has hung artworks by Pablo Picasso in a female toilet cubicle in response to a failed court bid to exclude men from a women-only art installation.
  • In April, a court ruling found Mona discriminated when it refused a New South Wales man entry to its Ladies Lounge.
  • What’s next? Mona curator Kirsha Kaechele is appealing the discrimination ruling in the Supreme Court.
  • Deceptichum@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    5 months ago

    and did not recognise how the experience of the Ladies Lounge can promote equal opportunity.

    What a ridiculous argument, I don’t have much respect for the legal system but it got it right this time.