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Lawyer tells trial Van Gogh painting ‘may have increased in value after protest’

Just Stop Oil supporters Emily Brocklebank, 23, and Louis McKechnie, 22, are accused of damaging a valuable picture frame.

The Independent UK

There was better option than foreshore for Van Gogh's Newcastle visit

'If the showground had been used for the Van Gogh Exhibition, I believe the Novocastrians would have found more than ample parking with good access to public transport.'

Newcastle Herald

French climate activists pour paint on Charles Ray sculpture in Paris

Environmental activists have splatted orange paint over an outdoor sculpture by American artist Charles Ray in central Paris – the latest in a string of attacks on artwork aimed at spurring greater government efforts to fight climate change.

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Climate activists pour paint on Charles Ray sculpture in Paris

Paris (AFP) - Environmental activists on Friday dumped orange paint over an outdoor sculpture by the American artist Charles Ray in central Paris, the latest in a string of artwork defacements aimed at spurring greater government efforts to fight climate change.

AFP

"Immersive" entertainment is all the rage

The success of "Immersive Van Gogh" has inspired many copycats.

Axios

Climate activists attacking art ‘severely underestimate’ fragility of works, gallery directors warn

Protestors have been throwing soup and gluing themselves to famous artworks around the world, but have yet to damage any of them

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Art from Microsoft founder Paul Allen sells for $1.5 billion

Works by artists including Cézanne, Seurat, and van Gogh sold for a record-breaking $1.5 billion during the first part of Christie’s two-day auction of the late Microsoft co-founder Paul G

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Paul Allen's Art Collection Tops $1 bn at Christie's

Paintings and sculptures from the collection of late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen were auctioned off for a historic $1 billion Wednesday, Christie's auction house said, with records set for works by Van Gogh, Cezanne, Gauguin, Seurat and Klimt. At the end of the night Wednesday, five paintings entered the exclusive…

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Paul Allen's art collection tops $1bn at Christie's

NEW YORK: Paintings and sculptures from the collection of late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen were auctioned off for a historic US$1 billion on Wednesday, Christie's auction house said, with records set for works by Van Gogh, Cezanne, Gauguin, Seurat and Klimt.

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Paul Allen's art collection tops $1 bn at Christie's

New York (AFP) - Paintings and sculptures from the collection of late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen were auctioned off for a historic $1 billion Wednesday, Christie's auction house said, with records set for works by Van Gogh, Cezanne, Gauguin, Seurat and Klimt.

AFP

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

Climate activists glue hands to Goya frames at Spain's Prado

Madrid (AFP) - Two climate activists on Saturday each glued a hand to the frame of paintings by Spanish master Francisco Goya in Madrid to protest inaction in the face of global warming.

AFP

'We need to rebel': climate change needs radical response says XR activist

Paris (AFP) - Soup on Vincent van Gogh paintings, mashed potatoes on a Monet masterpiece: climate activists are taking increasingly daring action to grab headlines -- and it's working.

AFP

Climate Protesters Splatter Van Gogh in Rome with Pea Soup

Environmental activists tossed pea soup on a Vincent van Gogh painting Friday in Rome to protest carbon use and natural gas extraction, but caused no damage to the glass-covered painting. Security intervened immediately and removed the protesters kneeling in front of “The Sower” at the Palazzo Bonaparte to deliver a…

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Commentary: Is smearing food on the ‘Mona Lisa’ a productive form of climate change protest?

In recent months climate activists have been in a food fight with art museums across Europe. Their protests include throwing tomato soup at a van Gogh painting in London’s National Gallery and smearing cake on the protective glass over the “Mona Lisa.” Last week they threw mashed potatoes on the…

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Paris museum says painting was target of attempted attack

Paris (AFP) - A young woman tried to throw soup at a painting at the world-famous Musee d'Orsay in Paris this week, the museum confirmed Sunday, in a similar attack to others by climate activists in Europe.

The Guardian - UK

You see aspects of his paintings wherever you look: on Cézanne’s trail in Aix-en-Provence, France

It’s easy to see why the chic town in the south of France made such an impression on the famous artist

The Independent UK

Netherlands travel guide: Everything you need to know before you go

It’s not just Amsterdam: from opulent canal palaces and museums crammed with masterpieces, to miles of patchwork polders and caramel-coloured sand dunes, the Netherlands provides culture and countryside galore

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Soup on a Van Gogh, mashed potatoes on a Monet: Why are activists throwing food on priceless art?

Centuries-old paintings have been targeted by environmentalists as a way of drawing attention to their cause, with Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring joining the soupy ranks.

Evening Standard

Raging over spilt milk: behind the scenes of Animal Rebellion

Whether it’s activists gluing themselves to roads or upending supermarket dairy products, radical climate protests are everywhere. Tom Ellen talks to the campaigners — and police — to find out what goes into these acts… and how much it’s all likely to achieve

Axios

Climate activists divided on souping art

Some say the protests are counterproductive, while others insist the tactics are beside the point.

Evening Standard

Bob Geldolf says Just Stop Oil activists who threw soup on Van Gogh are ‘clever’

The Boomtown Rats frontman said he would have been among the crowds protesting in central London if he was 18

Evening Standard

I have never felt shame like this as we keep ignoring climate change

I am bemused by the reaction to the climate salvation protests, which include some journalists suggesting motorists assault protesters when they glue themselves to the road. (Their obvious intentions are littered with lawyerly caveats, which is offensive. Euphemisms are for the cowardly and lost).

The Guardian - UK

Just Stop Oil’s Van Gogh soup stunt is the latest streak of radical art protest by women

‘What is worth more: art or life?’ asked protesters Anna Holland and Phoebe Plummer this month in an echo of the suffragette who slashed Velázquez’s Rokeby Venus

Salon

Soup on the van Gogh: Kids are alright

Was the London soup-throwing incident an absurd plea for attention? Absolutely — it was also totally justified

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