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06/25/2024 at 6:23 p.m.
Australian justice considered that exhibiting works in a space reserved for women constituted discrimination. Consequence: the Tasmanian Art Museum transferred its Picasso collection to the ladies’ toilets.
A curious initiative to circumvent a ban. The Australian Museum of Old and New Art in Tasmania (Mona) has moved part of its collection of the famous painter Pablo Picasso to the women’s toilets in response to a court ruling.
According to The Independent newspaper’s story, the Tasmanian Civil and Administrative Tribunal found that the museum violated the Australian island state’s anti-discrimination law with a space within it prohibited to “people who do not identify as ladies.”
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A nod to the pubs of yesteryear
Launched in 2020, this controversial exhibition called “Ladies Lounge” and reserved entirely for women was interrupted last year after a man sued the museum for refusing him entry in April 2023.
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Inspired by misogynistic Australian pubs – from which women were excluded until 1965, this lounge welcomed the fairer sex with glasses of champagne served by male butlers with an exclusive view of the paintings of the famous Spanish artist Pablo Picasso.
Not a little proud of the transfer of this gallery to the little corner, the Mona nevertheless does not take offense. The latter appealed the court decision, arguing that the magistrates adopted “too narrow a point of view on the historical and current societal disadvantage of women” and that the Ladies Lounge could “promote equal opportunities” according to comments reported by our colleagues.
