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Climate Protesters Splatter Van Gogh in Rome with Pea Soup

Environmental activists tossed pea soup on a Vincent van Gogh painting Friday in Rome to protest carbon use and natural gas extraction, but caused no damage to the glass-covered painting. Security intervened immediately and removed the protesters kneeling in front of “The Sower” at the Palazzo Bonaparte to deliver a…

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Commentary: Is smearing food on the ‘Mona Lisa’ a productive form of climate change protest?

In recent months climate activists have been in a food fight with art museums across Europe. Their protests include throwing tomato soup at a van Gogh painting in London’s National Gallery and smearing cake on the protective glass over the “Mona Lisa.” Last week they threw mashed potatoes on the…

Los Angeles Times

You see aspects of his paintings wherever you look: on Cézanne’s trail in Aix-en-Provence, France

It’s easy to see why the chic town in the south of France made such an impression on the famous artist

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Netherlands travel guide: Everything you need to know before you go

It’s not just Amsterdam: from opulent canal palaces and museums crammed with masterpieces, to miles of patchwork polders and caramel-coloured sand dunes, the Netherlands provides culture and countryside galore

The Independent UK

Soup on a Van Gogh, mashed potatoes on a Monet: Why are activists throwing food on priceless art?

Centuries-old paintings have been targeted by environmentalists as a way of drawing attention to their cause, with Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring joining the soupy ranks.

ABC News

Raging over spilt milk: behind the scenes of Animal Rebellion

Whether it’s activists gluing themselves to roads or upending supermarket dairy products, radical climate protests are everywhere. Tom Ellen talks to the campaigners — and police — to find out what goes into these acts… and how much it’s all likely to achieve

Evening Standard

Climate activists divided on souping art

Some say the protests are counterproductive, while others insist the tactics are beside the point.

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Bob Geldolf says Just Stop Oil activists who threw soup on Van Gogh are ‘clever’

The Boomtown Rats frontman said he would have been among the crowds protesting in central London if he was 18

Evening Standard

I have never felt shame like this as we keep ignoring climate change

I am bemused by the reaction to the climate salvation protests, which include some journalists suggesting motorists assault protesters when they glue themselves to the road. (Their obvious intentions are littered with lawyerly caveats, which is offensive. Euphemisms are for the cowardly and lost).

Evening Standard

Just Stop Oil’s Van Gogh soup stunt is the latest streak of radical art protest by women

‘What is worth more: art or life?’ asked protesters Anna Holland and Phoebe Plummer this month in an echo of the suffragette who slashed Velázquez’s Rokeby Venus

The Guardian - UK

Soup on the van Gogh: Kids are alright

Was the London soup-throwing incident an absurd plea for attention? Absolutely — it was also totally justified

Salon

Art attack: can vandalism be justified to save the planet?

Letters: Readers on the protest by Just Stop Oil activists who threw soup at a Van Gogh painting in the National Gallery

The Guardian - UK

Just Stop Oil: do radical protests turn the public away from a cause? Here's the evidence

Members of the protest group Just Stop Oil recently threw soup at Van Gogh’s Sunflowers in the National Gallery in London. The action once again triggered debate about what kinds of protest are most effective.

The Conversation

How I learned to stop worrying and love Just Stop Oil protesters

For a few brief seconds my breath caught in my throat as I watched those two young Just Stop Oil activists hurling tins of tomato soup at Van Gogh’s Sunflowers last week. I was shocked.

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Daily Record

Just Stop Oil activist explains reason behind throwing soup on Van Gogh painting

The activist claims they did "no damage to the painting whatsoever".

The Guardian - UK

Wednesday briefing: Just Stop Oil fuels up for a long fight

In today’s newsletter: They’re climbing bridges, clogging traffic and vandalising a Van Gogh. But are protesters on the right road to a climate revolution – and how far will the government go to stop them?

The Guardian - US

‘Buckle up’: US backers of Just Stop Oil vow more Van Gogh-style protests

Climate Emergency Fund lauds National Portrait Gallery stunt and pledges to keep fighting against ‘mass delusion of normalcy’

The Guardian - AU

If you don’t like climate activists staging art gallery protests, organise something better

It’s far better to speak too loud than to remain silent. With the environmental catastrophe accelerating day by day, activism has never been more important

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Daily Mirror

What is Just Stop Oil and why are activists protesting in London?

Environmental activists known as the Just Stop Oil organisation have staged several protests over the past year, including the recent Van Gogh protest at the National Gallery

WEKU

Who is Just Stop Oil, the group that threw soup on Van Gogh's painting?

Just Stop Oil has been in the spotlight after its demonstration in which protesters threw soup at a Van Gogh painting. The coalition is demanding an end to new fossil fuel production in the U.K.

Tribune News Service

Activists who threw soup on Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’ plead not guilty to criminal damage charges

The two young climate protesters who threw tomato soup over one of the world’s most famous paintings have pleaded not guilty to criminal damage charges.

Chronicle Live

Newcastle 'Just Stop Oil' protestor pleads not guilty to throwing soup over Van Gogh painting

Anna Holland, 20, from Newcastle and Phoebe Plummer, 21, from Lambeth, south-west London, both pleaded not guilty to criminal damage.

The Independent UK

Activists in UK court after soup thrown at Van Gogh picture

Three climate activists appeared in a London court on charges of criminal damage after protests including throwing soup over Vincent van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” painting in the National Gallery

The Independent UK

Three climate activists appear in court after soup thrown over Van Gogh painting

Anna Holland, 20, Phoebe Plummer, 21, and Lora Johnson, 38, appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Saturday morning.

The Independent UK

Pair in court accused of criminal damage to frame of Van Gogh’s Sunflowers

Two tins of Heinz tomato soup were thrown over the artwork at London’s National Gallery on Friday.

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