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Not Picasso: Curator Kirsha Kaechele Commits Fraud
Tasmania's Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) recently caused controversy by attempting a segregated art show that would have barred male visitors. After a court shot that down, some works, including paintings credited to Pablo Picasso, were displayed in a woman's rest room to still prevent men from seeing them.
Now the curator of the exhibit has been busted: Kirsha Kaechele admited she faked the Picassos herself.
"They were billed as artworks by Pablo Picasso, paintings so valuable that an Australian art museum's decision to display them in an exhibition restricted to women visitors provoked a gender discrimination lawsuit. The paintings again prompted international headlines when the gallery re-hung them in a women's restroom to sidestep a legal ruling that said men could not be barred from viewing them.
"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.
"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."
If there were any kind of ethics in the establishment art world Kaechele's career would be over, but I assume her politics will shield her from any consequences for her deceit.
Thanks to reader Richard Patton for sharing the link.
Read the full article here: AP - These Picassos prompted a gender war at an Australian gallery. Now the curator says she painted them
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