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Mona hangs Picassos in women’s toilet in response to court ruling

Picassos were among artworks hanging in Ladies Lounge exhibition that closed after a court ruled it must admit men

The Guardian - AU

Wu-Tang Clan's Rare Album 'Once Upon A Time In Shaolin' Displayed In Australian Museum

Experience Wu-Tang Clan's rare 'Once Upon a Time in Shaolin' album at MONA in Australia. Limited tickets available for private listening sessions from June...

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Wu-Tang Clan's unreleased 'Once Upon a Time in Shaolin' is headed to an Australia museum

The sole physical copy of Wu-Tang Clan’s unreleased “Once Upon a Time in Shaolin” is headed to Australia’s Museum of Old and New Art

The Independent UK

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One-of-a-kind Wu-Tang Clan album set to be played in public for first time

Only a single copy of the album Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, which the band intended as an artwork, exists

The Independent UK

Now, you can hear the world's rarest album: "Every once in a while, an object on this planet possesses mystical properties that transcend its material circumstances"

Only copy of Wu Tang Clan's Once Upon A Time In Shaolin to be displayed in Australia

MusicRadar

Morning Mail: waste firms breaking safety rules named, global outrage at Rafah bombing, world’s rarest album comes to Mona

NSW company breaches have led to contamination of lanscaping products; Netanyahu describes missile attack on tent camp as ‘tragic mishap’

The Guardian - AU

'World's rarest' million-dollar album on listening loan

Hip hop legends Wu-Tang Clan secretly recorded an album and then deleted the masters to leave only one copy. Find out where in Australia you can listen to it.

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Sole copy of Wu-Tang Clan album to be played to the public for first time at Mona

Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, the ‘world’s rarest album’ once sold for $2m to Martin Shkreli, will be loaned to Tasmania’s Museum of Old and New Art

The Guardian - AU

Afternoon Update: Israel claims control of Rafah crossing; Erin Patterson pleads not guilty; and a message from humanity to aliens

Israeli forces have taken control of the Palestinian side of the crossing between Gaza and Egypt

The Guardian - AU

MONA appeals ladies-only lounge discrimination ruling

A Tasmanian art gallery ordered to open its ladies lounge to men after a discrimination complaint has appealed the ruling in the Supreme Court.

AAP

In Australia, women-only app becomes latest front in war over trans rights

The founder of a women-only social networking app is being sued for denying her service to a trans woman.

Al Jazeera

Size matters as Dark Mofo cracks open nude swim entries

There is one less excuse for not stripping naked and plunging into the wintry River Derwent after Dark Mofo upsized its nude solstice swim.

AAP

Artist 'saddened' her MONA exhibit broke the law

The artist behind the Ladies Lounge exhibit at Hobart's MONA museum has said she is deeply saddened after the exhibit was found to have broken the law.

AAP

Museum ordered to stop discriminating in Ladies Lounge

A man was unhappy his $35 entry fee did not allow him to see all the museum's artwork, including a crown worn by a curator when she married the owner.

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MONA pulls pin on summer festival as magic wears off

The owner of Tasmania's Museum of Old and New Art has cancelled the gallery's summer festival after 16 years, citing poor attendance and competing costs.

AAP

Hibernating Dark Mofo defrosts winter feast, nude swim

Winter festival Dark Mofo won't be fully on ice in 2024 with two signature events and some new ones going ahead as the full program hibernates for a year.

The Conversation

In the depths of Hobart's MONA, a volcano is stirring

In the darkness, a rumble. A sonorous boom. Deep within the subterranean caverns of MONA, a volcano stirs. This is Hrafntinna (Obsidian), an immersive installation by Icelandic artist and musician Jónsi.

The Guardian - AU

Jónsi from Sigur Rós makes a volcano: ‘It goes straight up the arse to rattle your bones’

An immersive exhibition at Mona in Hobart merges music, sound and scent to evoke an eruption, from an artist who is always finding new ways to move his audience

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The Guardian - AU

It’s back to the Futuro in Australia, where seven of the ‘UFO houses’ have landed

Mona’s David Walsh has restored one of the cult prefabs and says one day he’ll make it available to the public ‘at an exorbitant fee of course’

ABC News

Opponents, defenders of Tasmania's salmon industry as entrenched as ever as fish farming continues to grow

This chef vows he'll never serve it, while a local in a rural community says she is "sick of people coming from Hobart telling us we're unhappy with fish farms" — why is the salmon industry so divisive in Tasmania?

ABC News

Tasmanian salmon industry future plan released — but fish-farming opponents say it fails on several fronts

The Tasmanian government says critics of industrial fish farming are a "noisy minority". But some restaurants have dropped salmon from their menu over environmental concerns and that isn't about to change.

ABC News

Abbey Road console used by The Beatles finds new home at MONA's Frying Pan Studio

In the age of AI, cars that can change colour and digital — well — everything, a piece of 1950s recording equipment with a rich musical pedigree is the star of the show at a new studio.

The Guardian - AU

The artist ‘most likely to change the world’? Tomás Saraceno on making art from dust, webs and pollution

Inside Tasmania’s Mona, the Argentinian artist is using spiders, soil and a floating backpack to encourage awareness of nature and sustainability in ‘the Capitalocene’

Newcastle Herald

Surprise surprise! Money laundering in a casino! Who'd have imagined it

Gambling on the results of casino inquiries

Evening Standard

Mona Athens: the hottest new hotel opening in the city

Kate Lough discovers Athens’ new creative pulse through the lens of Mona, a new opening in the heart of the ancient city

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