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☆ The biggest art controversies of 2024
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-25 | by ( Oscar Holland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +16 min

CNN —Big money, big ideas and big egos — the art world has all the necessary ingredients for a juicy controversy. Here are 13 of the controversies that entertained, shook and shaped the art world in 2024:One person’s trash…"All the good times we spent together,” by French artist Alexandre Lavet. Curators at Palazzo Fava in Italy, however, were somewhat less understanding toward the man who shattered a porcelain sculpture by dissident artist Ai Weiwei. Philbrick’s $86-million scheme, the largest art fraud in American history, saw him fake documents, conceal ownership interests and invent a fictional art collector as he collateralized and resold shares in blue-chip contemporary art. Hannes Magerstaedt/Getty ImagesA German museum worker was fired after hanging his own art on the gallery’s walls.

Persons: Ad Reinhardt, ”, Alexandre Lavet, Alexandre Lavet’s “, they’d, Mona Lisa ”, David Cantiniaux, Johannes Vermeer’s, Vincent van, Maurizio Cattelan’s, ” —, —, Justin Sun, Sun, Akutagawa, Rie Kudan, ChatGPT, Miles, he’d, Nature, Ai Weiwei, Yue Minjun —, Frances King, ” King, King Charles III, Jonathan Yeo, Aaron Chown, Queen Elizabeth II’s, King Charles III’s, Richard Morris, Jonathan Yeo’s, “, Catherine , Princess, Alastair Sooke, Hannah Uzor, Anto Brennan, Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip, Lisa Schiff, Udo Salters, Patrick McMullan, Schiff, ” Schiff, Inigo Philbrick, Kirsha, Jesse Hunniford, Picassos ”, Kaechele, Hannes Magerstaedt, Gao Zhen, Gao Qiang, Shiho, Gao, Mao Zedong, China’s, queasy London's, Peter Moulton, Eline Arbo, Les, Nobel, Annie Ernaux, Almeida, Camille Pissarro, Susana Vera, Camille Pissarro’s “, Camille Pissarro’s “ Rue Saint Honore, Claude Monet’s Organizations: CNN, LAM Museum, Getty, Magna Carta, Asahi Shimbun, Bononiae Press, Reuters, Hecht Museum, Art, Ruthin School, Tatler, British, Daily Telegraph, US Department of Justice, Lounge, Museum, New York Times, Alamy, Staff, Almeida Theatre, Thyssen, Jewish, Organization, Camille Pissarro’s “ Rue Saint, US Locations: American, French, LAM, Netherlands, AFP, Belgian, British, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Haifa, Italy, Wales, Ruthin, Northern Ireland, New York City, Manhattan, Tasmania, Australia, —, Munich, Germany, China, Beijing, Hebei province’s Sanhe, Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain, Washington, Louisiana

☆ Australia’s MONA reopens controversial women-only art installation, allowing some men to enter for ‘reparations’
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-17 | by ( Elizabeth Fortescue | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —A women-only art installation accused of being “discriminatory” by a disgruntled man who was denied entry is reopening Thursday having successfully fought for its legal right to exist. The Ladies Lounge, at the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) in Tasmania, Australia, was created five years ago by artist Kirsha Kaechele, the wife of the museum’s founder and owner David Walsh. The installation, complete with lavish decor and a butler serving champagne, carried on uninterrupted until Jason Lau visited Mona last year. When Lau was denied access to the Ladies Lounge on the basis of his male identity, he sued MONA for discrimination. In September the supreme court quashed the tribunal’s ruling, and MONA this week announced that the Ladies Lounge will reopen for a lap of honor from Thursday until mid-January, 2025.

Persons: Kirsha Kaechele, David Walsh, Jason Lau, Mona, Lau, MONA, ” Kaechele, Kaechele, Read Organizations: The Art, CNN, Museum, butlers Locations: Tasmania, Australia, Tasmania’s, Hobart

☆ Curator says she faked 'Picasso' paintings that had hung for more than 3 years in an Australian museum
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-14 | by ( Rebecca Rommen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewAn art museum in Australia that was embroiled in a gender dispute involving several "Picasso" paintings has admitted that the works were fake. The paintings had been at the center of a gender battle that broke out after a man from the Australian state of New South Wales took legal action against the gallery after being refused entry to the museum's "Ladies Lounge" exhibition. The exhibition contained some of the museum's most notable artworks, including some said to have been produced by the Spanish Cubist Pablo Picasso. "I knew of a number of Picasso paintings I could borrow from friends, but none of them were green and I wished for the Lounge to be monochrome. The forgery prompted a reevaluation of other works displayed in the Ladies Lounge, and Kaechele revealed that some other items were also not genuine.

Persons: —, Kirsha Kaechele, Pablo Picasso, Kaechele, Manet, Picasso, Christopher Heathcote, Heathcote, Princess, It's, Gina Rinehart's, Vincent Namatjira Organizations: Service, Business, Guardian, Picasso Administration, Tasmania's Museum of, New Locations: Australia, New South Wales, Guardian Australia, Spanish

☆ Australian museum admits that ‘Picassos’ hanging in restroom are fake
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-11 | by ( Kathleen Magramo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —A museum in Australia has come clean: The Picasso paintings hanging in its women’s restroom were forged by one of its own curators. The Ladies Lounge first made headlines in 2020 as a female-only space displaying what were presented as original Picassos once owned by Kaechele’s great-grandmother. Enclosed in green silk curtains, the Ladies Room was opened for female visitors in 2020. I liked that a misogynist would dominate the walls of the Ladies Lounge. The Ladies Lounge, a green velvet-draped room adorned with gold detailing, opened “to any and all ladies” in December 2020.

Persons: Kirsha Kaechele, —, MONA, ” Kaechele, Jesse Hunniford, MONA “, Picasso, Picasso’s, ”, “, Kaechele, Queen Mary of, revel, Jason Lau, Lau, I’ve Organizations: CNN, Tasmania’s Museum of, of Locations: Australia, American, Spanish, Guinean, Queen Mary of Denmark, Hobart, Tasmania, New South Wales

☆ Australia MONA: Why Picasso pieces are on display in a ladies’ restroom inside a museum
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-25 | by ( Kathleen Magramo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

“While the Ladies Lounge undergoes a series of reforms to meet the exemptions required for reopening, I’ve been doing a little redecorating. “Some Cubism in the cubicles.”The Picasso works were moved into a fully functioning restroom for women. ‘Ladies Lounge’ closed“We never had female toilets at Mona before, they were all unisex. But then the Ladies Lounge had to close thanks to a lawsuit brought on by a man. Jason Lau, a visitor from New South Wales was barred from entering the “Ladies Lounge” exhibit on April 1 in 2023.

Persons: Picasso, Pablo Picasso, Kirsha Kaechele’s, –, ”, MONA, Kaechele, I’ve, Australia Kaechele, Charlotte Vignau, “, David Walsh, Jason Lau, Lau Organizations: CNN, Tasmania’s Museum of, Tasmanian Civil, Museum of Locations: Australia, ”, Hobart, Tasmania, Mona, New South Wales, state’s

☆ Australia: A man complained about a ‘women only’ art exhibit. Now a tribunal has ruled the museum must admit male visitors
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-10 | by ( Christy Choi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —A museum in Australia is being forced to allow men into art exhibit originally conceived for women only, after a tribunal ruled it “discriminatory,” following a complaint by a disgruntled man who was denied entry. During proceedings, Kaechele told the tribunal that denying men entry to the mysterious room is indeed part of the art — giving them a taste of the discrimination and exclusion many women have experienced through history. “Because the requirement is that it will have to open to men, and that’s not happening,” she said. After Tuesday’s ruling, MONA’s official spokesperson told CNN that the institution was “deeply disappointed” by the tribunal’s decision. It was beautiful, the room, the art installation, the meaning of it all.”

Persons: MONA, Kirsha Kaechele, —, ” Jason Lau, Lau, ”, Kaechele, “, Jesse Hunniford, ” Kaechele, Charlotte Vignau Kaechele, Tuesday’s Organizations: CNN, Tasmania’s, of, Tasmanian Civil, KK Locations: Australia, New South Wales, Lau’s

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