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Mona

Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Tasmania

June 2026

  • Julian Charrière and Breathe, 2026.

    I just inhaled 2.4bn year old oxygen in Tasmania. Now I’m part of an exhibition until I die

    In Mona’s new permanent installation, visitors can breathe air so pure it ‘has not been touched by any being before you’

June 2025

  • Kirsha Kaechele at the Ladies Lounge in Mona

    ‘The surf’s up and the patriarchy is down’: Kirsha Kaechele takes Ladies Lounge to the Gold Coast

    With butlers wearing ‘probably not much’ – but no fake Picassos – the Mona performance art installation that won a court challenge is heading north to Bleach* festival

February 2025

  • Artist Théo Mercier wearing a T-shirt and hoodie

    Eighty tonnes of sand and junk: why Mona’s latest exhibition is destined to collapse in front of our eyes

    Mirrorscape, an intricate sand sculpture by French artist Théo Mercier, is a ghostly scene of decay that resembles the aftermath of a disaster – or perhaps ‘a fossil from the future’

December 2024

  • Two men wearing barrister's wigs and white neck ruffles, with no shirts on, stand in front of a green velvet curtain on which white sculptures of penises of different shapes and sizes are mounted. One man is holding a wine bottle, another holds a bunch of grapes.

    Pouring champagne and ironing knickers: my day serving the matriarchy as a topless male waiter

    The Museum of Old and New Art in nipaluna/Hobart is allowing men into its Ladies Lounge for the first time – as long as they remove their shirts and serve its female patrons

October 2024

  • Anthony Albanese (centre) walks during a procession at a Jewish community vigil marking the first anniversary of the Hamas 7 October attack.

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    Australian politicians mark 7 October anniversary – as it happened

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September 2024

  • Kirsha Kaechele, curator of the Ladies' Lounge at Tasmania's Museum of Old and New Art, outside the supreme court in Hobart

    Australian arts in focus
    Mona’s Ladies Lounge wins appeal in bid to continue barring men from entry

  • Kirsha Kaechele led a line of Ladies Lounge supporters outside Tasmania's supreme court which heard her appeal against the Tasmanian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (TASCAT) decision that the lounge at Mona museum had engaged in gender discrimination by refusing entry to men

    Ladies Lounge supporters strut their stuff as Mona case heads to supreme court – video

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July 2024

  • One of the paintings

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    Mona’s fake Picassos: performance or prank? – Full Story podcast

    Guardian Australia’s arts reporter Kelly Burke tells Nour Haydar why she first suspected the paintings were bogus
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    Australian arts in focus
    ‘Childish and unprofessional’: art experts say Mona’s fake-Picasso stunt may undermine gallery’s reputation

    Critics say revelation Kirsha Kaechele created works over three years ago is more prank than performance art, and risks leaving patrons feeling ‘cheated’
  • A woman in a black and white striped dress and sunglasses poses with a paintbrush in hand in front of a painting

    Australian arts in focus
    Fake Picassos: Mona admits Ladies Lounge paintings were forged by Kirsha Kaechele

    The 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

June 2024

  • Gallery rehouses artworks from women-only exhibition that closed after court ruled it must admit men

    Australian arts in focus
    Picasso artworks moved to women's toilets at Australian museum Mona – video

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  • An installation review of Mona's 2024 exhibition Namedropping

    Namedropping: is Mona’s latest exhibition its most annoying yet?

  • Two Picasso artworks in a female toilet at the Museum of Old and New Art (Mona)  in Tasmania

    Australian arts in focus
    Mona hangs Picassos in women’s toilet in response to court ruling

  • Once Upon a Time in Shaolin in its ornate silver box

    I just listened to Wu-Tang Clan’s Once Upon a Time in Shaolin. As music, it’s good. As art, it’s truly great

May 2024

  • A silver box with intricate designs and Wu-Tang Clan's logo

    Sole copy of Wu-Tang Clan album to be played to the public for first time at Mona

  • Artist Kirsha Kaechele performing outside MONA with props from her Ladies Lounge installation, following a court order to admit men to the lounge

    Australian arts in focus
    Tasmania’s Mona to challenge decision to let men into ladies-only art lounge

April 2024

  • Artist Kirsha Kaechele

    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

March 2024

  • Artist Kirsha Kaechele, creator of Ladies Lounge at Tasmania's Museum of Old and New Art (Mona), exiting a hearing in the Tasmanian Civil and Administrative Tribunal on 19 March 2024

    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’

October 2023

  • Jónsi surrounded by black amid his artwork Hrafntinna (Obsidian), now at Mona in Hobart

    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

February 2023

  • Chloe Kim, South Korean-Australian drummer

    ‘Hour 27 was quite tough’: why one woman is drumming for 100 hours over 10 days

    Jazz drummer Chloe Kim has been playing since 17 February and is set to reach 100 hours by Sunday. But the idea is as much about art as learning more about herself, she says
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