Social Movements · 2022
Climate Activists Target Artworks
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Just Stop Oil and Letzte Generation threw soup at Van Gogh's Sunflowers, glued themselves to Vermeer, Goya, and Botticelli, forcing the question: does great art have a protected status that supersedes political urgency? The actions revealed that the museum's aura of neutrality was itself a political position, and that activists knew exactly how to exploit it.
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