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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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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (11 children)

“I chose to peacefully disrupt a business-as-usual system that is unjust, dishonest and murderous.”

Ah, yes, the murderous system of [checks notes] art made generations before you were born.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (6 children)

Have we considered that these protests are astroturfing by big professional art-restoration backers?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

I bet fossil fuel companies love this

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I keep thinking that these guys have to be right wing plants. Can these people really be this stupid? Doing this shit and blocking roads only makes people your enemy. Go throw paint on billionaire's houses or at your nearest court house you idiots

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