Picasso was the worst thing to happen to art … ever.
I mean look at this:
Early Picasso
Late Picasso
He painted like a five-year old on purpose, and thanks to his influence, we've been stuck with the sort of modern art madness that thinks throwing a pickle on the ceiling is art.
And that's why I love that the Mona gallery in Tasmania hung their Picassos in the ladies' bathroom.
I could leave the story there and die happy, but there's even more to love!
The gallery didn't even have a ladies' bathroom before hanging the Picassos in there. The restrooms were previously unisex.
The change came because the Picassos in question used to hang in the gallery's ladies' lounge. Only women were allowed in the lounge to see the artwork there. It was described as:
A lavish ladies-only gallery space featuring artworks from the Mona collection alongside important modernist works and invaluable antiquities.
The artwork evokes in men the lived experience of women forbidden from entering certain spaces throughout history.
But men thought that was discriminatory based on sex, so they sued the gallery.
And they won!
Hobart's Museum of Old and New Art (Mona) was found to have discriminated when it refused to let a New South Wales' man entry into its women-only Ladies Lounge in April last year.
TASCAT deputy president Richard Grueber found the complaint by Mr Lau was substantiated because he was excluded entry to a section of the museum for being male.
'He had paid the full entry price for Mona, but was not able to experience the artwork contained within the Ladies Lounge,' Mr Grueber said in his decision.
'The refusal to permit Mr Lau entry to the Ladies Lounge was direct discrimination,' Mr Grueber said.
The museum was given 28 days to get rid of the women-only lounge.
Museum curator Kirsha Kaechele was outraged.
… the Ladies Lounge had to close thanks to a lawsuit brought on by a man and I just didn't know what to do with all those Picassos.
Refusing to appreciate the artistic irony of a woman experiencing the lived experience of men being sued for sexual discrimination by the opposite sex and losing, Kaechele re-segregated the bathrooms into men's and women's and moved the Picassos into the ladies' restroom.
Kaechele is appealing the decision to the supreme court and demanding, checks notes, "unequal rights."
'Ladies love the Lounge — a space away from men — and given what we have been through for the last several millennia, we need it. We deserve both equal rights and reparations, in the form of unequal rights, or chivalry — for at least 300 years.'
Please, make it stop!
I can't breathe!
Beyond the hilarity of it all, I hate to be the one to inform Kaechele, but it's 2024: People can use whichever restroom they identify with in the moment.
I can't wait to see this feminist curator go to jail because she kept a transgender dude from seeing Picassos that were hidden above a toilet. 😂
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