The exhibition was surrounded by green silk curtains so nobody could get a look in. Women guarded the entrance at Tasmania’s Museum of Old and New Art (Mona), turning men away unless they were butlers who “lived to serve” women.
Jason Lau visited the museum in April, only to be denied entry to the Ladies Lounge, an art and dining space with a Picasso and a “wall of vulvas” on display. And so he took legal action, arguing that his exclusion breached the state’s Anti-Discrimination Act.
The case came to a judicial tribunal this week and supporters of the exhibition staged performance art at the hearing, dramatically crossing and uncrossing their legs in matching suits.
Kirsha Kaechele and her millionaire husband David Walsh, the museum’s founders, pictured on a trip to the Antarctic
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Mona argued that shutting out men was central to the