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Three individuals targeted National Gallery paintings an hour after Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland were jailed for similar attack in 2022

Climate activists have thrown tomato soup over two Sunflowers paintings by Vincent van Gogh, just an hour after two others were jailed for a similar protest action in 2022.

Three supporters of Just Stop Oil walked into the National Gallery in London, where an exhibition of Van Gogh’s collected works is on display, at 2.30pm on Friday afternoon, and threw Heinz soup over Sunflowers 1889 and Sunflowers 1888.

The latter was the same work targeted by Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland in 2022. That pair are now among 25 supporters of Just Stop Oil in jail for climate protests.

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[–] TheCoralReefsAreDying69@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Should everyone go destroy art galleries? Housing crisis = art destruction?

Do you not agree? Over half a million homeless are without homes. People are dying, and the homeless are largely being dehumanized or ignored. There is a very real human cost far beyond a piece of art or the barrier protecting it.

If you're looking for objective quantifiable criteria on right vs wrong, you'll never find it. Morality often falls into a grey area involving tradeoffs, but bringing attention to a societal issue with huge human costs just for splashing soup on a plastic barrier seems pretty effective to me.

[–] Barsukis@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Well I agree with the problem, but I don't believe attacking art galleries is a solut. Why not spray paint a real estate firm?

[–] TheCoralReefsAreDying69@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Less shock value -> less publicity -> less people thinking about your message

[–] Barsukis@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago

Why do you assume it's less shock value? I would argue the opposite