Tasmania's Museum of Old and New Art got really upset when a man sued them for having a women's-only area of their gallery.
The customer in question was upset that he had been charged full price but was excluded from a Picasso exhibit that was purposely off-limits to men in order to teach men about historic discrimination against women.
To avoid the lawsuit, the gallery decided to stick it to the patriarchy by putting the whole exhibit into the little girls' room.
Rather than admit men to the exhibit, Kaechele (the curator) -- who is married to the gallery's owner, David Walsh -- installed a working toilet in the space, turning it into a women's restroom in order to exploit a legal loophole to allow the refusal of men to continue.
In another hilarious twist of the story, it turns out the curator might not only be guilty of illegal discrimination, but outright fraud!
But the artworks at the center of the uproar were not really by Picasso or the other famed artists billed as their creators, it emerged this week when the curator of the women-only exhibition admitted she had painted them herself.
SHE PAINTED THEM HERSELF!!
Kaechele put this thing together three years ago.
THREE YEARS ON TOUR BEFORE ANYONE QUESTIONED THEM!
Kirsha Kaechele wrote on the blog of Tasmania's Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) on Wednesday that she was revealing herself as the works' creator after receiving questions from a reporter and the Picasso Administration in France about their authenticity.
But they had been displayed for more than three years before their provenance was questioned, she said, even though she had accidentally hung one of the fake paintings upside down.
'I imagined that a Picasso scholar, or maybe just a Picasso fan, or maybe just someone who googles things, would visit the Ladies Lounge and see that the painting was upside down and expose me on social media,' Kaechele wrote. But no one did.
I don't know if this is the best or worst hoax of all time.
What was the point of this? Why does she brag about it?
Her husband owned the gallery! She made the fake paintings! She charged people to see them! She put them in a women's only exhibit and kept men out with a bizarre and targeted anti-male protest!
Then she just says, "I can't believe you fell for that!"?
What do you think: Did we just reach peak feminism?
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