[All] Why is a Picasso painting displayed in the women's bathroom at the Australian Art Museum?

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| Court: "Women-only exhibition hall violates anti-discrimination law"… Art museum protests, displays in bathroom

Picasso painting hanging in the women's bathroom at Mona Museum in Australia

[Capture from Mona Museum curator Kirsha Keichel's Instagram. Resale and DB prohibited]

(Jakarta=Yonhap News) Correspondent Park Eui-rae = An art gallery in Tasmania, Australia, has decided to move its collection of Pablo Picasso works to the women's bathroom to continue displaying them, in protest of a court ruling that it cannot operate a women-only exhibition hall.

According to Australia's ABC and other broadcasters on the 26th (local time), the MONA art museum in Hobart, Tasmania, which opened in 2020, also created a women-only exhibition hall called the 'Ladies Lounge'.

At the time, the museum advertised that guests could enjoy wine and food served by male butlers in a women-only space decorated with green velvet, while appreciating works by famous artists such as Picasso.

But in April last year, a male museum visitor lodged an appeal with the Tasmanian Civil and Administrative Tribunal, claiming he was refused entry to the Ladies Lounge because he was male.

The museum argued in court that the space was a response to the historical disadvantages women had suffered.

However, the court ruled in April that women-only exhibition halls violated anti-discrimination laws and men cannot be denied entry based on gender.

Then the museum closed the ladies' lounge and closed it to men.

They also held up a sign that read "Shut Down for Reform" along with a photo of a woman wearing green velvet gloves holding up her middle finger.

Meanwhile, on the 24th, curator Kirsha Keichel, who planned the Ladies Lounge exhibition, revealed a Picasso painting hanging on the bathroom wall on her social media account, saying, "A new exhibition just for women is opening."

They decided to display Picasso's work in a women's restroom, which is open only to women, regardless of anti-discrimination laws.

"I had to close the Ladies Lounge because of a lawsuit from a man and I didn't know what to do with all those Picassos," said Kachel, who made it clear that only women would enjoy it.