July 2024
MONA has a new home for its Picassos: The women’s toilet
MONA is appealing a ruling that closed down its Ladies Lounge after finding it was discriminatory to men.
- Rachel Pannett
January 2023
- Exclusive
- AFR Magazine
Dark Mofo boss burnt by cancel culture
In the aftermath of the Indigenous blood row, Dark Mofo’s outgoing director Leigh Carmichael says the threat of public outrage is stifling discussion of controversial ideas.
- Gabriella Coslovich
November 2022
- Opinion
- Investing
The ‘side effects’ of risk, reward and altruism
Adding a third dimension to the capital allocation process introduces complexity. Some manage it better than others.
- Jonathan Shapiro
May 2022
Inside the life (and wardrobe) of artist and troublemaker Kirsha Kaechele
The American-born wife of MONA founder David Walsh talks Givenchy, Picasso, and why she’s learning French to be “United Nations-ready”.
- Matthew Drummond
September 2021
Tasmania’s MONA to mandate vaccination for staff
The Hobart museum has become the first major cultural institution in Australia to require mandatory vaccines for employees
- Tom McIlroy
November 2020
MONA founder David Walsh says the museum is 'my hotted-up Torana'
As someone famously obsessed with sex and death, it makes sense that the iconoclastic art patron sees his famous Hobart museum as a tool to help him 'bang above his weight'.
- Gabriella Coslovich
November 2019
Sohn Hearts & Minds goes to Hobart
Premier Will Hodgman, or more accurately, the Tasmanian taxpayer, is in the benefactor's role in 2020.
- Myriam Robin and Joe Aston
May 2019
Mona founder shakes off Labor's shock defeat
Australia's artistic community is "glum" after the federal election, with advocates seeking an urgent boost to institutions and the creative industries.
- Tom McIlroy