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Here’s why Picasso artworks are on display in a ladies’ restroom | CNN

A museum in Australia has moved Picasso artworks to a women’s restroom, skirting a discrimination complaint by a male visitor who couldn’t enter an exhibit where the works were previously hung.

Two paintings and a drawing by Pablo Picasso were originally featured in American artist and museum curator Kirsha Kaechele’s “Ladies Lounge” installation at Tasmania’s Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) – which opened in December 2020 – “to any and all ladies.”

The experiential artwork was billed by the museum as a “tremendously lavish space” where women can indulge in “decadent nibbles, fancy tipples, and other ladylike pleasures” served by a male butler while they peruse art in a green velvet-draped room.

But MONA was ordered to stop refusing entry to “persons who do not identify as ladies” after the Tasmanian Civil and Administrative Tribunal ruled in April that the show violated Australia’s 1998 Anti-Discrimination Act.

Here’s why Picasso artworks are on display in a ladies’ restroom | CNNhttps://www.cnn.com/2024/06/25/style/australia-mona-museum-picasso-restroom-intl-hnkOpen linkView original on lemmy.world
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Haters gonna hate’: A top FEMA official defends his claim that he was teleported

Democratic Rep. Tim Kennedy described Phillips as “wildly unfit for his role as head of FEMA response and recovery,” citing “his violent statements about former President Biden” and “deeply troubling bigoted comments about immigrants.”

Kennedy added: “All of which, to me, makes him wholly disqualified to hold his position on its own — but only to be outdone by his claims of being teleported to a Waffle House.”

Haters gonna hate’: A top FEMA official defends his claim that he was teleportedhttps://www.cnn.com/2026/04/01/politics/fema-official-gregg-phillips-defends-teleportation-claimOpen linkView original on lemmy.world
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