Mona
Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Tasmania
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Mona’s fake Picassos: performance or prank? – Full Story podcastGuardian Australia’s arts reporter Kelly Burke tells Nour Haydar why she first suspected the paintings were bogus
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‘Childish and unprofessional’: art experts say Mona’s fake-Picasso stunt may undermine gallery’s reputationCritics say revelation Kirsha Kaechele created works over three years ago is more prank than performance art, and risks leaving patrons feeling ‘cheated’
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Fake Picassos: Mona admits Ladies Lounge paintings were forged by Kirsha KaecheleThe paintings made global headlines after being moved to Mona’s female toilets in protest against a court ruling. But they were never real to begin with
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Picasso artworks moved to women's toilets at Australian museum Mona – videoNamedropping: is Mona’s latest exhibition its most annoying yet?
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Mona hangs Picassos in women’s toilet in response to court rulingI just listened to Wu-Tang Clan’s Once Upon a Time in Shaolin. As music, it’s good. As art, it’s truly great
Sole copy of Wu-Tang Clan album to be played to the public for first time at Mona
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Tasmania’s Mona to challenge decision to let men into ladies-only art lounge
Mona ordered to allow people ‘who do not identify as ladies’ into Ladies Lounge exhibit
Tasmanian tribunal rules Museum of Old and New Art discriminated against NSW man by denying him entry to installation
Artist behind Mona’s ladies-only lounge ‘absolutely delighted’ man is suing for gender discrimination
NSW man Jason Lau claims denying men entry is discriminatory, but artist Kirsha Kaechele says men’s ‘experience of rejection is the artwork’
Jónsi from Sigur Rós makes a volcano: ‘It goes straight up the arse to rattle your bones’
An immersive exhibition at Mona in Hobart merges music, sound and scent to evoke an eruption, from an artist who is always finding new ways to move his audience
‘Hour 27 was quite tough’: why one woman is drumming for 100 hours over 10 days
When an old Tafe campus is bought for a $50m makeover, what do you do? Fill it with art
The artist ‘most likely to change the world’? Tomás Saraceno on making art from dust, webs and pollution
Inside Tasmania’s Mona, the Argentinian artist is using spiders, soil and a floating backpack to encourage awareness of nature and sustainability in ‘the Capitalocene’
‘I had to be taken out of the museum’: the artistic challenge that almost broke Dean Stevenson
The composer has been working underground at Mona since July, writing a new piece each day to be performed that afternoon. The experiment has been ‘traumatic’, he says – and it has changed him for good
Dark Mofo 2022: one year on from major controversy, has the festival learned from its mistakes?
Leigh Carmichael says his festival has changed for good, after last year was dominated by outrage and a boycott. But there’s still work to be done
Burnt books and blackened stumps: Dark Mofo brings Tasmania’s ‘forest genocide’ indoors
At Mona, Fiona Hall and AJ King have built an immersive lament to the destructive forces of colonialism and male ego – but hope grows amid the wreckage
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The 10 strangest artefacts in Australian museums – sortedFrom a hangman’s journal to ‘The Poo Machine’, here are some weird, unnerving and oddly touching objects in museums around the country
‘We are tearing open that wound’: the First Nations artists reclaiming Tasmania
For the island’s Mona Foma festival, public spaces ‘dripping in colonialism’ have been disrupted with screams, violence and truth
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