International news outlets covered the development in May, apparently without questioning that a gallery would hang Picasso paintings in a public restroom.
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 rehung them in a women’s restroom to sidestep a legal ruling that said men could not be barred from viewing them.
