#museum of old and new art

[you-need-not-apply]

LISTEN UP: A LADIES LOUNGE IS BEING REMOVED DUE TO "SEXISM"

TERFS DNI - I'm trans

The Tasmania's Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) is a popular place in the state with free entry for TAS residents. But the ladies lounge is one of the best places inside. It seeks to highlight historic misogyny by banning male visitors, making men feel the exclusion experienced by women for thousands of years.

However, it is now being removed due to discrimination against "people who do not identify as ladies", and as someone who doesn't ID as a women (most of the time) FINE BY ME! Keep me out when I ID as a man. A New South Wales man (Jason Lau) took legal action against Mona, claiming that being denied entry into the Ladies Lounge when he visited the museum last April due to his gender was against the  Tasmanian Anti Discrimination Act (1998) 

HE DOES NOT EVEN LIVE IN THE SAME STATE

Artist Kirsha Kaechele and MONA director David Walsh

Artist Kirsha Kaechele has said:

"The men are experiencing Ladies Lounge, their experience of rejection is the artwork"

Why is it being banned?

The Tasmanian Anti Discrimination Act (1998) states that you are not allowed to treat someone differently based on an attribute or characteristic like, gender, sexual orientation, race, religion, or disability. source1

But there are exceptions to this rule.

"A person may discriminate against another person in any program, plan or arrangement designed to promote equal opportunity for a group of people who are disadvantaged or have a special need because of a prescribed attribute," the Act states.

Things like women-only gyms are for women to feel safe, promoting equal opportunity, and men's sheds are to promote men's mental health. source2

Mona's Ladies Lounge, however, is not a club and has no membership.

The judgment has ordered Mona to allow men to access the installation within 28 days.

#sexism #MONA #aus #auspol #ausgov #tas #tasmania #australian #australia #Museum of Old and New Art #Kirsha Kaechele #art #artist #David Walsh

[loser-user-noaccuser]

No bc if MONA goes through with this decision that the courts have made to open up a female only arts exhibit JUST BECAUSE A FUCKING MAN GOT PISSED OFF THAT HE WASNT ALLOWED IN i am going to leave the state

#Tasmania has gone to shit and its making me sad #wtaf has my state become #no longer proud tbh #mona #museum of old and new art

[dotmo]

#lady luck #David Walsh #ABC News #interview #2014 #A Bone Of Fact #autobiography #MONA #Museum of Old and New Art #tasmania #survival tactics of penguins #self taught #gamgling #rule of thirds #a glitch in the global art institution #Youtube

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Bundle of Hair Extensions.

Date: ca. 2114-1502 B.C.

Period: Old Kingdom-early New Kingdom; 16th-18th Dynasty

Medium: Human hair, linen

▪︎ From the source: These hair extensions would have been placed in a tomb for use in the afterlife. In this world, Egyptians used extensions to make their wigs or natural hair thicker and more attractive, just as people do today. The reliefs in this case show hairdressers adding extensions like these to the hair or wig of Queen Neferu.

#ancient #ancient art #history #museum #archeology #ancient egypt #ancient history #archaeology #egyptian #egyptology #egypt #bundle of hair extensions #extensions #fake hair #queen tiye #old kingdom #new kingdom #16th Dynasty #18th dynasty #human hair #ca. 2114 b.c. #ca. 1502 b.c.

[arc-hus]

James-Simon-Galerie, Berlin - David Chipperfield

#David Chipperfield #architecture #design #building #modern architecture #interiors #minimal #concrete #contemporary architecture #museum #museum architecture #art gallery #art museum #old and new #columns #beautiful buildings #cool design #river #berlin #english architecture

[lionofchaeronea]

Rainy Day on Fifth Avenue, Childe Hassam, 1893

#art #art history #Childe Hassam #genre painting #genre art #cityscape #New York #New York City #Old New York #Gilded Age #rain scene #Impressionism #Impressionist art #American Impressionism #American art #19th century art #oil on canvas #John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art

[emby-m]

What has four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon, and three legs at night?

(an exploration of andreas over the course of 25 years, plus quotes)

#pentiment #pentiment fanart #andreas maler #pentiment spoilers #em art #so this is an old quote reference book i picked off the free stuff table at my museum job #so i figured id do something with it #act i is v standard but andreas is genuinely sketching out his life and keeps erasing all hed done up to that point #act ii is a man destroying his own sketches because it wasnt the life he wanted to live and sees burning it as the only way to truly end it #act iii is a man who has so thoroughly destroyed his foundation that he essentially is able to start new #but hell never be free of the plague of the labyrinth #the eighteen years of mind eroding loneliness and untreated mental health issues and lack of faith #even if he returns to normal... no he doesnt #he can be happy but he'll never be not-mad-as-in-crazy again #the paper is 'clear' but the graphite never really leaves the weave of the paper

[blueiskewl]

‘Unusual’ and ‘Unique’ Treasures Found in Woman’s 1,300-Year-Old Grave in England

More than 1,300 years ago, a young woman was buried in England — along with various medieval treasures. Now, a year after discovering the ancient grave, experts have unearthed another “unique” artifact from the site.

Archaeologists discovered an “extremely delicate, large silver and gold cross backed with wood,” according to a Dec. 12 news release from the Museum of London Archaeology. The cross was described as an “unusual item,” and it was found in a grave dating between 630 and 670 A.D.

The cross was first identified with an X-ray image, experts said. Then, archaeologists conducted micro-excavations by removing “whole blocks of soil” from the site before examining them in a controlled lab.

Lab excavations revealed the artifact, which is a central cross “decorated with a smaller gold cross,” according to officials. It has five garnets, one large and four smaller, and at the end of each arm is a small circular silver cross with garnet and gold at the center.

Experts said the cross resembles other crosses found in “high status female burials” from around the same time, indicating that the woman in the grave could have “held a very special position within the Christian community.”

“Seeing the central gold and garnet clasp cleaned up is breath-taking,” Simon Mortimer, an archaeology consultant, said in the museum’s news release. “The key is now to reassemble all of the evidence that was buried on that day with this lady – to understand the full significance of who she was, where she was from and how she came to be here and why. Those answers will rewrite our understanding of early Medieval Northamptonshire.”

Archaeologists are now working to determine whether the coins on the necklace were original Roman coins or if they were imitations made as part of the necklace, they said.

The original excavation also revealed several teeth fragments, but officials said further investigations at the site have uncovered more bones, which will give more insight into the deceased.

Since last year, osteologists have discovered “the upper part of a femur, part of the pelvic bone, some vertebrae and part of a hand and wrist,” the museum said. The bones were preserved because they were covered by a “crushed copper dish placed within the grave.”

Early analysis of the skeletal remains indicate that the deceased was likely a young woman, but further tests will be conducted to determine more details, according to experts.

Harpole is in Northamptonshire, which is approximately 70 mile northwest of London.

By Moira Ritter.

#‘Unusual’ and ‘Unique’ Treasures Found in Woman’s 1300-Year-Old Grave in England #Museum of London Archaeology #high status female burial #ancient grave #ancient tomb #ancient artifacts #archeology #archeolgst #history #history news #ancient history #ancient culture #ancient civilizations #medieval history #ancient jewelry #ancient art

[lockvogel]

Santa Fe, Old Town - New Mexico

#original photography on tumblr #photographers on tumblr #landscape photography #Santa Fe #New Mexico #Santa Fe Plaza #Santa Fe Old Town #architecture #mine #vacation #vacation 2023 #adobe #adobe buildings #art #wall mural #Palace of the governors courtyard #New mexico museum of art

[coochiequeens]

Men can't let women have anything for ourselves

An Australian museum has been ordered to allow men into a women's-only exhibit, following a high-stakes court case over the matter.

The Ladies Lounge at Tasmania's Museum of Old and New Art (Mona) sought to highlight historic misogyny by banning male visitors.

After being denied entry, one filed a gender discrimination lawsuit, which he won on Tuesday.

"We are deeply disappointed by this decision," a Mona representative said.

The velvet-clad lounge - which contains some of the museum's most-acclaimed works, from Picasso to Sidney Nolan - has been open since 2020.

It was designed to take the concept of an old Australian pub - a space which largely excluded women until 1965 - and turn it on its head, offering champagne and five-star service to female attendees, while refusing men at the door.

Jason Lau, a New South Wales resident who visited Mona in April of last year, was one such male.

Representing himself throughout the case, he argued that the museum had violated the state's anti-discrimination act by failing to provide "a fair provision of goods and services in line with the law" to him and other ticket holders who didn't identify as female.

The museum had responded by claiming the rejection Mr Lau had felt was part of the artwork, and that the law in Tasmania allowed for discrimination if it was "designed to promote equal opportunity" for a group of people who had been historically disadvantaged.

In his ruling, Richard Grueber dismissed the argument - finding that it was "not apparent" how preventing men from experiencing the famous artworks held within the Ladies Lounge achieved that goal.

Throughout the case, the museum's supporters, including artist Kirsha Kaechele - who created the work - had used the courtroom as a space for performance art, wearing matching navy suits and engaging in synchronised movements.

Mr Grueber said that while the behaviour of the women hadn't disrupted the hearing, it was "inappropriate, discourteous and disrespectful, and at worst contumelious and contemptuous".

His decision to allow "persons who do not identify as ladies" to access the exhibit will come into effect in 28 days.

Ms Kaechele previously told the BBC the case had felt like her artwork was coming to life and signalled she would fight it all the way to the Supreme Court if necessary.

But she also noted that having the Ladies Lounge shut down could help drive home its intended message.

"If you were just looking at it from an aesthetic standpoint, being forced to close would be pretty powerful."

A spokesperson for Mona said the museum would "take some time to absorb the result" and consider its options.

#Tasmania #Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) #The Ladies Lounge

[chinsphatty]

Le Louvre en Nuit - Ou sont les Lumiere??

My new Film Camera - Samsung Evoca Neo

#film #film photography #film camera #35mm film #filmisnotdead #samsung #evoca neo #new #dark photography #paris #paris france #France #le louvre #museum #travel #photography #cryptic #low light #french #vacation #toronto #Canada #old school #art #new camera #kodak #kodak ektar 100 #kodak portra 400 #35mm #35mm photography

[josadaik]

#New england #florence Griswold museum #river #countryside #fall #art #old lyme #Connecticut #usa #United States

[rabbitcruiser]

The Neues Museum Nürnberg(NMN) was officially opened on April 15, 2000.

#Neues Museum Nürnberg #NMN #Volker Staab #officially opened #15 April 2000 #anniversary #German history #Nürnberg #Nuremberg #Bayern #Bavaria #Deutschland #Germany #architecture #cityscape #reflection #landmark #tourist attraction #original photography #summer 2020 #downtown #old town #exterior #façade #vacation #travel #Neues Museum - Staatliches Museum für Kunst und Design Nürnberg #Luitpoldstrasse 5 #New Museum - Nuremberg State Museum of Art and Design #opened

[arc-hus]

Swiss National Museum, Zurich - Christ & Gantenbein

#Christ & Gantenbein #architecture #design #building #modern architecture #interiors #minimal #concrete #museum #national museum #cultural center #art #history #old and new #extension #brutalist #porthole window #angular #zurich #switzerland

[krispyweiss]

High Lonesome Bluegrass Stamp on Tap

- First day of issue ceremony slated for March 15 at Kentucky’s Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame

Bill Monroe invented it.

Old & in the Way popularized it.

New Grass Revival modernized it.

“O Brother, Where Art Thou?” mainstreamed it.

Billy Strings is refreshing it.

And now, the U.S. Postal Service commemorates it with an official bluegrass stamp.

The postage - emblazoned with the words High Lonesome Sound and images of a guitar, banjo, fiddle and mandolin - will be unveiled during the first day of issue ceremony March 15 at the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Kentucky.

Like bluegrass itself, the stamp is forever.

2/19/24

#bluegrass stamp #bluegrass music hall of fame and museum #bill monroe #old & in the way #new grass revival #o brother where art thou #billy strings

[mochishawty]

#me #new me #aesthetic #black tumblr #self portrait #blogger #art #old school tv #New York #brooklyn museum