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Artist refuses to bow to demands from men to be let into her exhibition

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CheeseSandwichRiskAssessment · 21/03/2024 09:14

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/20/world/australia/mona-ladies-lounge-tasmania.html?unlocked_article_code=1.eE0.UrMk.5N8xrORUMVhB&smid=url-share

Some good news from Australia. I was shocked that women weren't let into pubs there until 1965! The article is a share token and worth reading to the end for the immortal line from the artist : "I'm not sorry, and you can't come in."

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IcakethereforeIam · 23/03/2024 09:38

@SinnerBoy different thread, Victoria Culf is the artist who was banned from her own exhibition. This artist let's in any woman with deep enough pockets and any men who say they have lady feelz (and also enough cash).

But thank you for the archive link.

marmaladeandpeanutbutter · 23/03/2024 10:08

"I'm not sorry, and you can't come in" 🤣🤣 Love it, and the wittiness of it too.

Mermoose · 09/04/2024 19:18

I think this is a case of "Everyone Is The Asshole Here". I think it's fatuous pseudo-feminism but within the context of art the museum should be allowed exclude men, so long as this is made clear to anyone paying for entrance. I still don't understand the entrance fee issue - some publications were saying there was an extra admission to that area.

The Ladies Lounge was created by Kirsha Kaechele, an artist and curator, who in a statement to the court described its central feature as a phallus-shaped velvet couch, or as she put it, “a tethered, rearing, restrained-by-golden-chains-and-then-ultimately-defeated phallus”.
It surprises me not one jot that the artist, in the end, centred a massive penis.

FrogOnSaturn · 09/04/2024 23:26
  • Feminism isn’t about revenge against men
  • No, men can't enter the (insanely overpriced) exhibition, they must suffer as women suffered in the past
Ok...
akkakk · 07/05/2024 13:55

update here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd1wpegrnrxo

They are now planning to turn it into a women's toilet to allow them to block men, and a church:

Ms Kaechele's plans involve transforming the velvet-clad lounge into a women's toilet and a church - which she claims will allow it to continue operating as a women-only space under legal exemptions.
“There is a fabulous toilet coming to the Ladies Lounge, and so in that sense the Ladies Lounge will operate as a ladies’ room.
"It’s a toilet that is celebrated the world round. It is the greatest toilet, and men won’t be allowed to see it," Ms Kaechele said in Australian media reports.
Some of the key artworks, like the ones by Picasso, will be moved into the toilet to ensure "uninterrupted viewing" while she applies for other exemptions.
And only on Sundays, men would be allowed into the space - to learn ironing and laundry folding.
"Women can bring in all their clean laundry and the men can go through a series of graceful movements (designed by a Rinpoche and refined by tai chi masters) to fold them," she said, in an interview published by the museum, external on Tuesday.

Admire the spirit! 😁

The Ladies Lounge exhibit was introduced to Tasmania's Museum of Old and New Art at the end of 2020

Mona: Australia women's-only museum files appeal to keep men out

Australia's Mona asked a court to reverse its ruling that allowed men inside a women's only space.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd1wpegrnrxo

SD1978 · 07/05/2024 23:06

@Tessisme- the identify with part disappointed me to. It doesn't exclude men with the women feelz, so doesn't exclude men at all.

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