The members of Just Stop Oil are set to appear in court next month
The campaign group dressed up a sculpture of the goddess Demeter and added a speech bubble beside it reading “just stop famine”
The gallery will introduce new security measures, stating it has been "forced to act to protect our visitors, staff and collection"
Responding to a recent letter from the National Museum Directors' Council, the campaign groups have proposed a meeting in London's National Gallery—promising to “leave the soup at home”
An open letter from the National Museum Directors' Council says "demonstrations now need to be taken away from our museums and galleries"
Just days after Van Gogh soup pair sentenced to jail, a judge found the protesters' actions to be 'proportionate'
Activists who took part in a similar stunt at London's National Gallery in 2022 were jailed earlier today
The incident, which took place at the National Gallery in 2022, will see Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland serve two years and 20 months respectively
A reluctance to acknowledge hard facts is playing into a one-sided narrative around Big Oil—and the consequences are far reaching
Is the climate activist group’s campaign proving a success? Plus, Bahamian-born, US-based Strachan on his new Hayward show and a close look at a hanging bronze by Bourgeois
The climate catastrophe has been brought to the forefront of the public mind without causing serious harm to the targeted works, says John Paul Stonard
The ancient site remains open as curators investigate the damage
Activists’ attacks on artworks do not further their causes—if they did, I would throw the soup myself
From the theft of artefacts at the British Museum to a hammer attack on Velázquez’s “The Rokeby Venus”
The protest group is taking over Koppel X in London
Plus, our writers sit down to discuss their favourite works of the year
Curators at Leopold Museum say that Letzte Generation's protest against fossil fuel projects left no damage to either the picture or the original frame
The signatories of the open letter include the directors of the Musée du Louvre and New York's Museum of Modern Art
Goya works at the Prado and a Van Gogh painting in Rome were recently targeted
Had they thought about it more deeply, the activists who attacked the Van Gogh work could have gained something more than attention
Dutch police have arrested three people at the Mauritshuis in The Hague
The protestors from Letzte Generation took inspiration from a recent stunt that saw Van Gogh's Sunflowers doused in soup
The granddaughter of the oil tycoon J. Paul Getty has donated millions to support activist groups like Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil
Plus, Art Basel's inaugural Paris+ fair and an enigmatic Frank Bowling painting