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Fake artwork and discrimination: The MONA Ladies Lounge saga
The Museum of Old and New Art’s Ladies Lounge – a small, private room within the museum open only to those who identify as “ladies” – was shut down after being found to be discriminatory. MONA is appealing the decision, arguing that men weren’t being rejected from the lounge, but rather their rejection was an experience of the artwork itself.
Today, Gabriella Coslovich on the Ladies Lounge saga, and what happens when discrimination is the entire point.
Inside the ‘white hands on black art’ saga
The most damaging controversy the Indigenous art sector has experienced in years started with a video. The footage shows white studio assistants at the APY Art Centre Collective in South Australia working on canvases from an Indigenous artist, and became the linchpin for a vicious media campaign and provoked a series of investigations.
Today, the APY art scandal and the complicated question of authenticity in the Aboriginal art world.