Artist Kirsha Kaechele set up the "Ladies Lounge" at Tasmania's Museum of Old and New Art . Its name is a nod to the time before 1970s when women were denied entry to public bars and had to sit in ladies lounges.MONA did not dispute that the lounge is discriminatory, but argued the point of the "participatory installation" was that men were not there.
A male visitor launched a discrimination case last year after being denied entry to the marble-floored lounge, which features work by leading artists and a collection of antiquities. Kirsha Kaechele set up the"Ladies Lounge" at Tasmania's Museum of Old and New Art , in part as a protest against discrimination and men's only social clubs, which existed for centuries virtually unchecked.
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