A male visitor sued Tasmania’s Museum of Old and New Art after he was denied entry to “Ladies Lounge.”
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Australians Have Beef with Hermann Nitsch Performance Involving Bull Carcass [UPDATED]
The Viennese Actionist’s latest bloody ritual is set to take place in Hobart, but an animal rights group and a local politician are calling for its cancellation.
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A Performance Satirizes the Policing of Public Space
HOBART, Tasmania — She glared and said, “You don’t have a photo pass so get back behind the cones.”
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Aussie Artist Wants to Put the “High” in High School with Educational Marijuana
Australian artist Leon Ewing has come under fire for suggesting that drugs should be given to high school students to help unlock their creative potential.
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Wonder World, or Against the New Universal Exhibition
PARIS — Theatre of the World, currently on view at La Maison Rouge, raises the thorny issue of the individual and particular against the homogeneous collective.
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Australian Millionaire’s Museum Tries Something New (And Old)
In 1999, the National Gallery of Australia cancelled a planned exhibition of Sir Charles Saatchi’s Sensation, a collection of art focused on the work of the Young British Artists of the 1990s, on the grounds of the possible offensiveness of many of the works included in the show. Several of those works and artists are now on display in the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) recently opened in Hobart, a small city on the island of Tasmania in the south of Australia. Where the National Gallery quailed at the idea of exhibiting work by Damien Hirst, Chris Ofili and the Chapman brothers, MONA has no such qualms today. Works by these artists feature alongside 400 other pieces from the private collection of David Walsh, a Tasmanian millionaire gambler, art collector and founder of MONA.
