The rise of activists targeting famous artworks has experts divided on whether such tactics benefit social movements
On Wednesday, activists staged a protest at the National Gallery of Australia, scrawling in blue marker pen over the framed prints of Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup I. One of the protesters, who belonged to the group Stop Fossil Fuel Subsidies, tried to glue herself to a print.
It was not even the first climate protest within the last week to involve soup: five days earlier, Italian activists from the group Ultima Generazione – Last Generation – threw pea soup over a Vincent van Gogh painting in Rome. The Van Gogh work, like the Warhol prints, was protected by glass.
