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.
Certainly not substantially more now that soup has been thrown than before.
So there’s never been proportionate reporting on the issue.
Yet here we all are - talking about the protest and the apocalypse.
As we know, these protests prompt substantially more visibility and discussion than direct action.
There was just a massive hurricane in the U.S. that killed a large number of people and is creating an ongoing disaster.
And climate change has been discussed far, far more in regards to that than any soup-throwing could hope to achieve.