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Climate protesters convicted of causing criminal damage to The Hay Wain

Two climate protesters who inflicted more than £1,000 worth of damage to John Constable’s painting The Hay Wain must compensate the National Gallery.

The Independent UK

Climate protesters found guilty of causing criminal damage to The Hay Wain

Hannah Hunt and Eben Lazarus taped posters of a ‘dystopian version’ of the artwork on to John Constable’s painting and glued their hands to the frame.

The Independent UK

Climate protesters caused damage worth over £1,000 to Constable’s The Hay Wain

Hunt and Lazarus will argue that Articles 10 and 11 under the European Convention of Human Rights give lawful excuse for their actions.

The Independent UK

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Hampstead Heath pond painted by John Constable to be restored after 140 years

Branch Hill Pond will once again be a hotbed for wildlife in north London

Evening Standard

John Constable’s favourite Hampstead pond to be restored after two centuries

Branch Hill pond dried up in the 1880s. Now it will teem with wildlife again, as it did in the artist’s heyday

The Guardian - UK

Classic artworks reimagined to show problems of modern world

The re-imagined artworks were created by acclaimed digital artist Quentin Devine

Wales Online

Classic artworks given modern makeovers to highlight issues facing the world today

The paintings that have been re-imagined include John Constable's 200-year-old artwork, 'The Haywain', and Sir John Everett Millais’ 'Ophelia In The Stream'

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A list of all artworks Just Stop Oil have attacked

Artwork on the list includes Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh, and John Constable’s The Hay Wain

Evening Standard

Classic artworks given modern makeovers to highlight issues facing the world today

The paintings that have been re-imagined include John Constable's 200-year-old artwork, 'The Haywain', and Sir John Everett Millais’ 'Ophelia In The Stream'

Wales Online

Do we really care more about Van Gogh’s sunflowers than real ones?

The Just Stop Oil activists are accused of tactics that will stop people listening. But ‘respectable’ protest is roundly ignored, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The Guardian - UK

Hay Wain protesters deny criminal damage over National Gallery glue stunt

Two climate change activists who glued themselves to the frame of John Constable’s masterpiece The Hay Wain have denied criminal damage.

Evening Standard

Just Stop Oil: Eco-activists charged with criminal damage over Hay Wain National Gallery protest

Hannah Hunt and Eden Lazarus staged the protest at the National Gallery in central London on July 4

Evening Standard

Climate change protesters glue themselves to frame of Constable’s Hay Wain

The Just Stop Oil protesters also attached their own image of ‘an apocalyptic vision of the future’ to the picture.

The Independent UK

Climate protesters glue themselves to National Gallery artwork

Campaigners from Just Stop Oil pressure group reimagine The Hay Wain by John Constable

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Eco-activist students behind Constable art attack at National Gallery bailed

Police have been called to the exhibit which has been closed to the public

The Conversation

Light: Works from the Tate's Collection honours the body and its sensations – this is art which is meant to be felt

Review: Light: Works from The Tate’s Collection, ACMI

AAP

ACMI lights up with art from the UK's Tate

Artworks from the UK's Tate galleries will go on show for an exhibition exploring how artists use light.

The Guardian - UK

Fake views of Shot Tower in Constable’s painting of Waterloo Bridge

Letters: Nick Rampley on the anachronistic appearance of a former South Bank landmark in the artist’s 1817 Thames skyline

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The Guardian - UK

Gallery-goers take a twisted trip and history’s visionaries set sail – the week in art

Ceramics smash against abstract art, a trans painter tells her story and crop circles get a late reappraisal – all in your weekly dispatch

The Guardian - UK

Radical Landscapes review – ‘Is loving green fields really wicked?’

It has some fabulous works, from a canal by Constable to a gnarled old tree by Tacita Dean, but this show’s radical v conservative thesis gets caught in the brambles – and the climate section is catastrophic

The Guardian - UK

Constable painting of Waterloo Bridge ‘transformed’ by conservation work

National Trust puts artist’s largest work on display at Anglesey Abbey in Cambridgeshire after removal of yellowed varnish

The Guardian - UK

Charity linked to UK anti-onshore wind campaigns active again

Analysis: Renewable Energy Foundation says it does not see renewables as a large part of net zero strategy

Daily Record

One of Falkirk's longest serving councillor steps down after almost 40 years

David Alexander will not be seeking re-election in May.

The Guardian - UK

Anti-onshore wind campaigner put in charge of council’s ‘green masterplan’

Lincolnshire county council’s Colin Davie has vowed to ‘restart old fights’ and oppose new onshore wind

The Guardian - UK

In brief: Constable: A Portrait; Wivenhoe; The Enemy Within – reviews

A revisionist biography of the English landscape painter; a murder mystery in Essex; and an inventive counterfactual detective story

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